Comments on: Creating a “GoTo” URL For Your WordPress-Powered Site

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:03:23 +0000

Thanks for this, I have been using a plugin to achieve a redirect but this is a much cleaner approach. Really worry about using too many plugins for reason of speed and security. Many thanks for you help.

By: david miller

david miller — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:59:45 +0000

That’s clever, I sometimes feel embarrassed to keepasking my devloper for help on my WP blog. Seems even easy enough for me!

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:55:51 +0000

I was wondering how to achieve that — thank you!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:06:53 +0000

brilliant and simple. thanks!

By: Ikki

Ikki — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:02:07 +0000

Smart move! Damn I was expecting something more difficult when I first read your post’s title hahaha

This is one clever idea! Thanks for the tip!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:01:03 +0000

Hey, that’s a great tip, thanks for sharing!

By: trevor

trevor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:29:51 +0000

Micheal, this is brilliant, short and elegant. I love it.

@hypotheek – One primary reason that it might not work is if your service provider was using the common apache config files to configure everything. I used to do this before I figured out that this was another way.

When an isp or service provider is using something like plesk or another management tool, there is one apache directive file per domain instead of 50+ domains being managed by one file.

The long and short of this, is that even though a few users have access to their own apache config files, ISP’s don’t want the headache of repairing them, so they allow .htaccess functionality to occur directly in the folder where something needs to be acted on, instead of the older method of embedding such functionality into a very long complicated apache config file or even the newer method of putting htaccess type functionality in the config files that can get messed up.

Btw, the other less elegent way of hiding a long url is to allow the long url to exist but to use javascript to ensure that a user’s mouse over always shows **something else** ha ha. Used sometimes as a hack to protect clickbank affiliate account urls.

Well Done, Michael, I am going to use this too. In truth, it looks so useful, i think i will try to memorize the lines.

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:26:49 +0000

@Todd, If you use a “goto” directory of some sort, you don’t need to tweak anything again, any value passed to that url will redirect automagically.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:48:13 +0000

How is this any different than simply rewriting the htaccess by hand and creating a condition / response that numbers each post incrementally?

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:17:50 +0000

@Mark – Don’t use SpamArrest – you are causing headaches to people by forcing others to deal with your spam. I have unsubscribed you from having comments emailed to you.

Several years ago, SpamArrest used the email addresses of people that sent messages to SpamArrest’s customers for the marketing of SpamArrest’s services. They may not do that anymore, but challenge response is still a bad way to deal with spam.