Avoid landing page redirects C (75) SERVER HIGH What's this mean?

[KellyDSD86]

HI we have a wordpress website with a chain of redirected urls?

one is with www. the other without?

How do I found out where this is? or what could be causing it? Any help much appreciated

[MikeTek]

Hi pickeringkelly,

Typically redirects on a WordPress site are found in three places:

1. The .htaccess file (often hidden by default, this file lives in the root or home directory of your hosting account and accepts redirect rules based on URL pattern matching
2. Redirection or a similar WordPress plug-in that provides a user interface for creating and managing URL-to-URL redirects based on an exact or partial URL match
3. Within the WordPress database itself, if a page's URL (or "permalink") has been updated, WordPress will automatically set a 301 redirect to the latest page - if you have a page with a permalink/URL that has been updated several times, this could cause a redirect chain

It won't be easy to spot what's triggering the redirects from the outside, even if you provide example URLs - it's much easier to spot what logic is set up with access to the .htaccess file (in the root hosting directory) or your WordPress installation.

If this is happening across all URLs of a given type (for instance a global redirect for all http:// page requests to https:// (secure) versions), it's likely to be driven by your .htaccess file logic. If it's just a few pages and the chains are unique, it's probably handled via a redirect plugin or the built-in WordPress logic.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Mike

[KellyDSD86]

Many thanks for your extensive and well explained response Mike - it has given me something to have a look into

Kindest Regards

Kelly