Today I found another solution that worked really fine to redirect from old URL to new URL permanently by using Simple 301 Redirects plugin. I have tested this plugin and it worked like a charm. Before I found this plugin, I had tried to use the redirect 301 by using .htaccess file, but unfortunately, it did not work.
Here was the quote from the author’s website:
Simple 301 Redirects provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web. It’s especially handy when you migrate a site to WordPress and can’t preserve your URL structure. By setting up 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages, any incoming links will be seemlessly passed along, and their pagerank (or what-have-you) will be passed along with them.
The redirects work similar to Apache 301 redirects where you specify the path that you want to forward (e.g. “/about.htm”) and the full URL of the destination (e.g. “http://www.sitedomain.com/about/”.) This means that in addition to forwarding between paths on your site, you can also forward to external sites. So you might also use the plugin as a URL shortener (”/video/” could forward to your YouTube channel, for example.)
Hopefully this will be helpful for those of you who encountered the same problem while migrating from the old website to the new website which has the different URL structure.
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Great..That’s pritty handy information…many people asked me to do so but I didn’t have any idea before but now I can reffer them to this blog. Thanks.