John Godley – @johnny5

Member Since: March 12th, 2005
Location: London, UK
Website: johngodley.com
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

Long-term plugin developer with many WordPress plugins (and some bbPress ones too), as well as several guides and articles stretching back into the misty past.

Employed by Automattic to bring more WordPress to the world.

Contribution History

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Translation Contributor
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Posted a reply to Redirect url to search page and replace hyphens with space, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's not possible to do this easily with a regular expression. You could either create…

22 hours ago
Posted a reply to Page keeps auto creating a redirect – How to delete it?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you delete a redirect it will be deleted. The only thing that could affect…

1 day ago
Posted a reply to setup plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, it installs some database tables. It's always done this, but now there is a…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Plugin not seeing 404 errors nor redirecting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, as I said, the 404 is not loading WordPress, so it is not possible…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect all children pages to parent without affecting pagination, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You will either need to modify the regular expression so it doesn't match the child…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to setup plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You need to setup the plugin first. It takes about 4 clicks.

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Plugin not seeing 404 errors nor redirecting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, your request is returning a 404 from your server. WordPress is not loading, and…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to an anchor link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but is that the exact settings you have in Redirection? Can you provide a…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to 5k+ 404 pages & caching issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As the FAQ mentions whether you need to deal with the 404s depends on the…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Plugin causing Divi theme builder to not load, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, once the plugin is removed it has no effect on your site. The problem…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to an anchor link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect have you tried?

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Sudden problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep, something has changed in WordPress 5.4. However, I am unable to reproduce it with…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Sudden problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, but another plugin may be causing the problem. It doesn't have to be a…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Sudden problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you running other plugins that might be causing this problem? The message is shown…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to How edit or add a Group, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, you can do that from the groups page. https://redirection.me/support/groups/

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Update data base, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@htrallliance are you referring to the Redirection plugin?

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Regex expression for redirecting image URLs to another folder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use https://regex101.com/ to test your regular expression against a variety of image URLs.…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Korean | Decoder/Encoder Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As far as I am aware they refer to the same URL - case doesn't…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Korean | Decoder/Encoder Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You appear to have a redirect for the same Korean characters that redirects to the…

5 days ago
Committed [2272409] to Plugins Trac:
Update supported WP version to 5.4

5 days ago
Committed [2272366] to Plugins Trac:
Bump supported version to 5.4

5 days ago
Posted a reply to REGEX Rules Issue (Github), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know what you are referring to. If you've already posted on Github then…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Update data base, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, click the button to upgrade the plugin. As with any upgrade you should follow…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Korean | Decoder/Encoder Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know what that page is. Can you send a URL that isn't redirecting…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Default options, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Added what logs recently? IP logging is disabled by default, and enabled during install. What…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Korean | Decoder/Encoder Issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you have a URL I can look at? What redirect have you created for…

7 days ago
Posted a reply to fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
All those questions were answered and appear to be resolved. References to the "useless" 'use…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but you referred to an error that has apparently been around for years and…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Interstitial JavaScript Redirect with Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
All hooks are listed here: https://redirection.me/developer/wordpress-hooks/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to fbclid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirection error are you referring to?

1 week ago
Posted a reply to clicks by period, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, there is no ability to do this with the plugin.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Access to RSS feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, it doesn't work correctly. You can follow that issue to keep track of it

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Access to RSS feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please see https://github.com/johngodley/redirection/issues/1788

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It isn't encoded. https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faristake.smartleads.eu%2Ftes%2527t You can see the redirect location is /?post=35/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It redirects to /?post=35/ https://redirect.li/http/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faristake.smartleads.eu%2Ftes%2527t

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I still don't understand what you are trying to do. The ignore trailing slash affects…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't really understand what you mean. Can you show a screenshot of the redirect…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but what redirect did you create for it? Can you show a screenshot?

1 week ago
Posted a reply to adding to the end of the target causing not Found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect have you created?

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect from subdomain to domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems the subdomain is on hubspot. You will need to perform your redirect there.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Update from 2.4.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It should upgrade fine although, as with any upgrade, you should make a backup of…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect from subdomain to domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You've blurred out the domain so I can't check. Do requests for the subdomain go…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Is anyone losing indexed pages?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirects did you create? The plugin only does what you tell it to. There…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to redirect to custom front-end registration page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, it should work.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect everything past /, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, your regular expression needs to match the whole URL otherwise you will only replace…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect everything past /, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect did you create?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sometimes there is no explaining bot behaviour. https://redirection.me/support/faq/#weird

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect to HTTPS, www AND URI?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is how it is supposed to work. Can you give a real example of…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to redirection to the old address, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is the URL, what redirect did you create, and what should it be redirecting…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to [Redirection] Redireted to home, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://getmovil.com/amp/ is being redirected to https://getmovil.com/ What is the error you mention?

2 weeks ago