Title: code for 301 redirect Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # code for 301 redirect * [mrsroynie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrsroynie/) * (@mrsroynie) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-301-redirect/) * I wonder if anyone can help me. I have used Adventure Journal as the basis for an old business website, which was temporarily hosted on a subdomain of another( completely unrelated) business website, giving it a rather clunky URL. I recently bought a new domain name and built a duplicate site. The old site has quite a decent Google ranking, which I don’t want to lose, so I thought I would do a 301 redirect, nominating the identical pages on the new site as canonical. I thought I would be able to simply download a plug-in and have that do the dirty work for me. However, it appears that the original site was built using some sort of cut-down version of WordPress with the result that the folders on the server are read-only. So I can neither update WordPress, nor access the full library of plug-ins. * The html code for the redirect is easy to understand, * ‘’ * Since I can’t alter the code for the (4) individual pages, could I simply enter 4 html link tags into the header.php file? Would the search engines pick it up or do I need to write a snazzy bit of php to automatically insert the URLs for the individual pages into the redirect code? The topic ‘code for 301 redirect’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/adventure-journal/1.7.2/screenshot. png) * Adventure Journal * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/adventure-journal/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/adventure-journal/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/adventure-journal/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/adventure-journal/reviews/) ## Tags * [301 redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/301-redirect/) * [duplicate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicate/) * [redirect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/redirect/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [mrsroynie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrsroynie/) * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-301-redirect/) * Status: not resolved