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I need help with one redirect, unfortunately I don't have idea how to write this for Wordpress. Should be .htaccess redirect or function in functions.php? Noob I am, so please help :)

OK, I have post, for example mysite.com/post1/ now, i have plugin that adding image to post as mysite.com/post1/thumb_image1.jpg but for some reason this plugin also adding page mysite.com/post1/mysite.com/post1/image1.jpgTHUMB that does not exist, so giving me 404 I need to sort. Now I can not remove this plugin, but how can I say to google not to crawl link mysite.com/post1/mysite.com/post1thumb_image1.jpgTHUMB and if it does (or someone accidentally find it) than do 301 on that link and redirect it to parent post, so example mysite.com/post1/

so something like Redirect 301 mysite.com/ABC/**.jpgTHUMB to mysite/com?ABC There are a lot of posts so this should apply to any post in my website. I think that above is possible through some kind of redirect, but I read like 60 pages and tried so many options and nothing works. now got headache of all this code, so please help.

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You should solve this at the plugin level. While this rewrite rule …

RewriteRule (.*)/?mysite.com/(.*) /$1/$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)THUMB /$1 [L,R=301]

… does what you are asking for, it is just cosmetic. Find the code that creates the wrong URL and fix that. Give the plugin author feedback; I’m sure s/he wants to know about that issue.

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  • Hi toscho, thank you for comment and help. yes, i need just a quick fix before i find a way to modify plugin. Your example didn't work for me :( is there a rewrite that will return any URL containing /THUMB to parent post? So if I have mysite.com/post57/THUMB45/875/this.jpg it will redirect it to mysite.com/post57/
    – Dean
    Aug 9, 2012 at 8:46
  • @Dean See my update.
    – fuxia ♦
    Aug 9, 2012 at 11:29
  • Hi toscho, thank a lot - that worked perfectly! Thank you for UPDATE your code is brilliant. But when checking links I discover another issue - this time links start with "?link=" instead of "THUMB" - can i use code like: RewriteRule (.*)/?mysite.com/(.*) /$1/$2 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^(.*)?link= /$1 [L,R=301]
    – Dean
    Aug 10, 2012 at 0:22
  • Please edit your question: Add a link to the plugin, so we can look at its source code.
    – fuxia ♦
    Aug 10, 2012 at 2:06
  • Hi toscho, thank you a lot for your offers, but this plugin is paid so i can not share or distribute code. and there is no response from author. i'll have to patch this few issues for now :( thank for your help :)
    – Dean
    Aug 10, 2012 at 2:53

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