John Godley – @johnny5

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

Core Contributor
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Theme Developer
Theme Developer
Translation Contributor
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Plugin Developer
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Posted a reply to Disable hit counter/last-accesss dates?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just to clarify some of those points. The Redirection logs can collect IP information, but…

13 hours ago
Posted a reply to Default WordPress “old slugs”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes it will

19 hours ago
Committed [2231021] to Plugins Trac:
Release 1.0.4 * Fix layout issues with Gutenberg 7.3

1 day ago
Posted a reply to Is it possible to redirect all parent links to another single page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, it's the ? that should be changed to \? You appear to have put…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Is it possible to redirect all parent links to another single page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The regular expression should look at the whole URL, not just the end part. Also…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Check Redirect Not Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It should be working now.

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Is it possible to redirect all parent links to another single page?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please see https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

2 days ago
Posted a reply to RewriteRule to Redirection plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirection is involved with redirecting, not rewriting. If you want to redirect from one URL…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Domain Name Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know what you mean by 'do this', but if you have redirected everything…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Domain Name Redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirection does not redirect /wp-admin/. However, the login page is not part of /wp-admin/ If…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Really Simple SSL Plugin and Redirection Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't think there are any problems, but you can always give it a test…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Not able to redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, but can you give specific details? For example, a screenshot, and the full URL

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Can I setup redirect from localhost ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
People use the plugin with hundreds of thousands of redirects. Everything you add to your…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Can I setup redirect from localhost ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can make your source URLs relative to / so it doesnt matter what domain…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Not able to redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What page are you trying to redirect and what redirect settings did you create for…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to What does it mean when /false appears in 404 log?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Couldn't really say to either question. You will need to determine a possible cause and…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to What does it mean when /false appears in 404 log?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It means someone is requesting a URL with /false at the end.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect all pages to new domain, except admin or wp-admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, the expression is everything except wp-admin. You want to match wp-admin. You could try…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect all pages to new domain, except admin or wp-admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
See the advanced button: https://redirection.me/support/create-redirects/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Can I redirect the front page without affecting others, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, / is your home page.

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Https redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you look on the 'site' page there is an option to redirect http to…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirecting the home page without instruction, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin won't redirect anything unless you configure it to do so, and it won't…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Recommended settings for “standard” redirections, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can find information here: https://redirection.me/support/

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Understanding a 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like requests for different size versions of the image. You should look at…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Redirect wordpress.com Blog & Comments Page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's not enough information to really answer that question. You can create a redirect from…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce –> Status –> Error 500, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I cannot reproduce the problem with WooCommerce 3.8.1. I suspect this is specific to your…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to “Delete All” Button Missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, I understand what you mean now. It was disabled because in some situations the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect page url to custom url? Getting 404’s!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Redirection has control over the target URL, not the contents of that page at the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Force a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS not saving., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Noting this was fixed in 4.6.2

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://www.special4you.marketing/de/blog is not shown when you access https://www.special4you.marketing/de/category/network-marketing/atronocom/ I see you are also using Cloudflare.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 301 redirect from main domain to sub domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can only redirect from a domain on which Redirection is running. This means it…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to apache web server is handling specific redirects instead of redriection plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
1) You can't. If your server is directly handling a request you will need to…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 301 redirect from main domain to sub domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, you are trying to redirect something that does not live on the current domain…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 301-redirect from old domain to new domain, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is not possible to redirect sites you have no control over. You will need…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection 200 error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That URL appears to be part of a non-WordPress site. You will need to reconfigure…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to wp_redirection_404 table has grown to 300 MB, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It contains your 404 logs. If you do not need 404 logs then you can…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 error on any redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, if you access http://www.torevellpartners.co.uk/privacypolicy you will see a server 404 error. This is not…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The source needs the slash: ^/category/(.*) You may need to clear your browser cache.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce –> Status –> Error 500, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your version numbers are all mixed up there. You first said it worked in 4.6.1,…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirect a category, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use a regular expression as described here: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 error on any redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, but can you provide the exact details? Without knowing what you've created it's impossible…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 redirect to custom permalink?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Your question was whether you can have a 404 go to another page. No, you…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 error on any redirect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What redirect have you created?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce –> Status –> Error 500, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You will need to look in your server error log to see what is causing…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 404 redirect to custom permalink?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A 404 is not a redirect, and the URL does not change on a 404…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to “Delete All” Button Missing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes. The delete all button deletes everything, and so it doesn't make sense to show…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection after registration to ‘thank you’ page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If the user is logged in you can use 'URL and login status', or maybe…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Redirection Plugin Update Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please update to 4.6.2. You should try and use a more recent version of PHP…

2 weeks ago
Committed [2222679] to Plugins Trac:
Release 4.6.2 * Fix 404 log export button * Fix HTTPS option not ...

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to change woocommerce attribute permalink, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, you will need to look at https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/ and come up with an expressions that…

2 weeks ago