Adding parameters to redirect (eg utm)

Confirmed, I am experiencing this issue as well. Safe Redirect Manager 1.9.3 on WordPress 5.4.1. Redirect rule settings are Redirect From: /test, Enable Regular Expressions unchecked, Redirect To: /blog, HTTP Status Code: 302 Found, Notes: empty. /test and /test/ redirect to /blog/. /test?utm_medium=test and /test/?utm_medium=test are 404. Check out https://preemptivelove.org/test/?utm_medium=test to try it out. (Future readers: I will eventually take this redirect down. Check out https://preemptivelove.org/test to confirm whether it’s still in place.)

@nfrctennant, here is the regex recipe I use in case you find it useful (be sure to check the Enable Regular Expressions checkbox):

Redirect From: ^\/from-path\/?(\?\S*)?$
Redirect To: /to-path/$1

(Ignore this next part if you’re familiar with regex. I’m including it in case you or future readers are not.)

^ is a starting enforcer. It ensures we don’t match /something-else/from-path.
\/ is the backslash character (/) in regex.
from-path is our path. If your path has a slash, remember to use \/. So from\/path to match from/path in the actual URL.
\/? is zero or one backslashes. So we’ll match both /from-path and /from-path/.
(\?\S*)? is zero or one of the group question mark and zero or more non-whitespace characters. This is the query string.
$ is an ending enforcer. So we don’t match /from-path/something-else.

$1 in Redirect To is the query string we matched. It’s available to us because we wrapped it in parenthesis.

I recommend testing your regex. I use https://regex101.com simply because it comes up top when I search “regex tester”, ha. When putting your URLs in the tester, be sure to remove your domain because we start our regex with ^. So put /from-path?utm_medium=test and not https://domain.com/from-path?utm_medium=test.

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Taylor Gorman.

@dinhtungdu, Hi, I am also having trouble redirecting using a simple regular expression.

Not sure if the issue is with this plugin or with the plugin that generates the URL I want to redirect from.

I am using “WooCommerce AJAX Products Filter” plugin by BeeRocket, which filters products with a drop-down selector and refreshes the shop page to have the following URL, for example:

/my-shop-page/?filters=product_cat[MY_CATEGORY_1]

I would like to redirect it to:

/product-category/CATEGORY_1/

I enabled regexp and added the following redirect rule:

FROM ^\/my-shop-page\/\?filters=product_cat\[MY_CATEGORY_1\]$
TO /product-category/CATEGORY_1/
* HTTP Status Code: 302 Found

However, I can’t get it to redirect from:
/my-shop-page/?filters=product_cat[MY_CATEGORY_1]

Wondering if this should work?

BTW, I used the regexp test website provided by @taylorgorman.
It says that the the regexp and original URL match:
^\/my-shop-page\/\?filters=product_cat\[MY_CATEGORY_1\]$
/my-shop-page/?filters=product_cat[MY_CATEGORY_1]

@dinhtungdu, thanks for your reply and code.

It helps (see below) but it’s not quite redirecting.

The URL still stays un-redirected when I select a category or subcategory from the ajax filter drop-down box. That is, it stays at /my-shop-page/?filters=product_cat[MY_CATEGORY_1]

Ideally, it should redirect because the categories and subcategories use a sidebar page template (to display certain promotional messages), whereas the shop main page uses a full page template with the filter drop-down box at the top of the page.

If there is no redirect, then filtering by categories and subcategories will stay on the full page template (no sidebar).

However, there is a slight improvement. Now, when I select a category to filter by, the subcategories of the filtered category are displayed at the top of the list of filtered products. And each of the subcategories have their own URL to redirect to.

If I can’t get the redirect to work completely after filtering, I might have to abandon the ajax filter in favour of a proper redirect method such as side bar links

@ragrant0 It’s expected because when you select categories from the sidebar, the URL is changed by JS, it’s not an actual request, so no redirect occurs. Safe Redirect Manager only works when WP parse requests.

And many thanks for a useful plugin. I’ve been using it for a long time for a bunch of other redirects

Hi @maikeos, can you please clarify your problem? What are the URLs you want to redirect and what is the URL you want to redirect to?