301 redirect with /? in URL

[COEDMediaGroup]

For a Wordpress site that has the ending / in the URL with a ? after it... how can you do a 301 redirect to strip off anything after the /

For example how to take this URL

domain.com/article-name/?utm_source=feedburner

and 301 to this URL

domain.com/article-name/

Thank you for the help

[StreamlineMetrics]

Do you want to capture the parameter value or do you want to just remove it immediately? If you want to remove it without worrying about capturing the value in Google Analytics, then this code may work -

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !="" #if there is a query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^p=.* #wordpress users: allow post tempalinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin.* #wordpress users: don't break admin
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L] #remove query string

I got this code from http://briancray.com/posts/htaccess-hack-remove-url-query-strings/

[COEDMediaGroup]

Just looking to remove it. Thanks for the info, will see if this works.

[AmberRobinson]

Have you tried the Redirection tool when you login to the back-end of the site?

[Aleyda]

Hi Robert,

The rewrite rules shared by Patrick should work well for that although you could also use Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin that features options to do that through the control panel.

Nonetheless, in general what can be better in performance and also for tracking purposes with your site URL, leaving tracking parameters while avoiding content duplication content is to use canonical tags. You can also set them easily for Wordpress with Yoast's plugin.

I hope this helps!

Aleyda