Title: excluding a pattern
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# excluding a pattern

 *  Resolved [ampli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampli/)
 * (@ampli)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-a-pattern/)
 * I moved my blog from blogger to wordpress and setup 301 redirect for my old blogspot
   urls
 * Now when someone visits my blogspot url [http://sitecom/blog-url.html](http://sitecom/blog-url.html)
   it redirects to [http://newwordpresssitecom/blogger/?=http://sitecom/blog-url.html](http://newwordpresssitecom/blogger/?=http://sitecom/blog-url.html)
 * If I activate BBQ it blocks the requested url [http://newwordpresssitecom/blogger/?=http://sitecom/blog-url.html](http://newwordpresssitecom/blogger/?=http://sitecom/blog-url.html)
 * so is there any way to exclude similar pattern or any other to make it work ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-bad-queries/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/block-bad-queries/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-a-pattern/#post-4718499)
 * Yes, if you encode the URL properly BBQ won’t block it 🙂

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-a-pattern/#post-4718499)
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