301 (static page instead latest posts)

Question

I've changed the structure from the list of latest posts on the main page to static front page. Latest posts were moved to "blog" page.

I need to redirect (301) old pagination structure from example.com/page/2/ to a new one example.com/blog/page/2/

Answer 1

1. Plugin: Redirection

This plugin allows you to manage 301 redirections. I played around with the settings and they allows regular expressions which could do the following:

• http://some.site/page/2/ to http://some.site/blog/page/2/
• http://some.site/page/3/ to http://some.site/blog/page/3/
• etc.

They provide documentation on how to set it up which can be found here. This is what I've done when creating the rule, try this:

• Source URL: /page/(\d*)/
• Target URL: /blog/page/(\d*)/

I was testing this out on a local copy of WordPress and I don't have anything right now that gives me those URL structures. Let me know if that works for you on your end.

2. Using .htaccess

If you don't want to use a plugin to manage your redirects, add the following to your .htaccess, in between the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/page/(.+?)(-[0-9]+)?$ /blog/page/$1

This is what your .htaccess should look like if you or a plugin haven't modified it:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# Redirect pages to blog
RedirectMatch 301 ^/page/(.+?)(-[0-9]+)?$ /blog/page/$1
</IfModule>

# END WordPress