Redirector

A Craft CMS plugin for handling legacy paths and URLs by preventing 404s and redirecting to the new entry's URL.

Contents

• Usage
• Installation
• Requirements
• Changelog
• License

Usage

In order to handle legacy paths and URLs, we need to create a field to capture them. We can make use of Craft's built-in URL field for this purpose.

1. Create a new field of type URL. Set the Allowed URL Types to Web Page.

2. Add this field to all sections where entries have URLs of their own.

3. Create a config file for this plugin config/redirector.php and add the handle of the field created in the first step.

   <?php
   
   return [
     'redirectField' => 'legacyUrl',
   ];

Installation

You can install this plugin with Composer.

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/project

# tell composer to use the plugin
composer require miranj/craft-redirector:dev-dev

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft plugin/install redirector

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3, 4, or 5.

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