Wordpress 301 redirects

[mmaes]

I use wordpress as CMS on a few sites and I noticed that word press automattically places 301s if I change a url etc.

I believe it does it by having the following in the .htaccess file:

BEGIN WordPress<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

Should I use this? I feel like it limits my control over the 301s.

[Dan-Petrovic]

Several times I allowed WP to manage page redirects and this caused no trouble. I cannot say for instances where you rename file more than once as it never happened internally.

[krissy-cca]

Hey,

At the end of the day it's making life easier for you. Stick with it until you notice something you want to change yourself; then go in and have a play with the .htaccess. Don't try and fix something that ain't broke

DD

[mmaes]

Do you know if there is a way to edit them with in wordpress? I have some pages that the URLs where renamed prior to launch.

[KeriMorgret]

I use the redirection plugin for wordpress to manage this. I personally use it to take care of another site I have redirected to my current site, but don't have access to the .htaccess file, and use it to take care of pages from the old site that don't exist on this site. It has a handy 404 log you can use too, and create redirects right from the 404 list. This might work for your old URLs that were renamed.