Question

On my current website I use parameters in querystrings to select the content shown to the user (e.g. http://www.domain.tld/index.php?site=linklist&page=2). I want to switch to wordpress and have all old links redirected to the new permalinks of wordpress.

When having site=linklist in the query string the user should be redirected to http://www.domain.tld/my-new-linklist . If the querystring contains site=about the user should be redirected to http://www.domain.tld/about-me ,…

How can I realize this using htaccess?

Answer 1

In the htaccess file in your document root, try adding these above any of your wordpress rules:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|.*)site=linklist&?($|.*)
RewriteRule ^/?index.php$ /my-new-linklist?%1%2 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|.*)site=about&?($|.*)
RewriteRule ^/?index.php$ /about-me?%1%2 [L,R=301]

etc.

Any other query string gets passed along, but the site=something is stripped out.