Title: Redirection plugin: help with the "referrer" functionality
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Redirection plugin: help with the "referrer" functionality

 *  [amanda81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amanda81/)
 * (@amanda81)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirection-plugin-help-with-the-referrer-functionality/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m new to the Redirection plugin, and unless I’m missing something obvious, 
   I can’t seem to figure out how to tell the plugin to create a redirect for my
   root URL if the URL is arrived at via a link from another site.
 * Here’s my situation: I have an old site, and a new site on a new domain. I want
   to redirect people who land on the old site to the new site. To do this, I am
   creating redirects for each of the 10 or so pages that I have on my site.
 * I have selected to Match “URL and referrer”, and have filled out the other boxes
   and saved. What happens is this:
 * – When I attempt to go to my root URL by typing it into my browser, the redirect
   works (I end up on my new site, which was the intended goal)
    – When I go to 
   a site that links to me and click on one of their links to my site, I end up 
   on my old site (i.e. no redirect occurs).
 * Am I missing something here? How can I set this up so that if someone clicks 
   on a link to my old site on someone else’s site, they are automatically redirected
   to my new site?
 * Thanks very much in advance!

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