interwebsites

For me once i entered that code the links would immediately redirect as for the admin I had to create another htaccess file in the wp-admin folder to fix the errors in the admin.

Visual editor doesn’t work: Blank text area. But using the text tab on the top right lets you use HTML to add/edit posts.

I’m only planning on running this until google removes the indexed pages.

As for the admin .htaccess, that is to resolve the issues caused by the main htaccess file.

I guess this isn’t a completely ideal solution but it works enough.

Not sure if this will work for everyone:

Added to htaccess in the root directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Get the strings but no empty strings because of home failure
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
# AND try to exclude normal searches, CSS and Javascript:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^s=(.*)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^c=(.*)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^ver=(.*)$
# AND try not to rewrite specific directories:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wp-admin/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wp-content/
# Do it
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1? [G,NC]

Created a new htacces file in the admin (or add to an existing one if you have one already:

#prevents urls containing ? from redirecting
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 !^(edit\.php|edit-tags\.php|upload\.php|link-manager\.php|post-new\.php|admin\.php|themes\.php|widgets\.php|theme-editor\.php|plugin-install\.php|plugin-editor\.php|profile\.php|tools\.php|customize\.php|nav-menus\.php|users\.php|options-general\.php|options-writing\.php|options-media\.php|options-reading\.php|options-discussion\.php|options-media\php|options-permalink\.php|)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1? [G,NC]

Hopefully that keeps google happy.

Sometimes a plug in can be a good option, they aren’t all made equal.

This is what I used to resolve the issues with googles index of dodgy links.

So far so good.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Try to exclude normal searches:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^s=(.*)$

# AND try not to rewrite admin pages:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wp-admin/

# AND perhaps better not the CSS version numbers, ...
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^ver=(.*)$
# AND
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^c=(.*)$

# AND/OR protect the whole wp-content directory from rewriting
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^wp-content/

# make sure the home page doesn't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/

# AND THEN: Try to replace all the other query strings
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$ 

# tell them that this page is not existing anymore (410, gone)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1? [G,NC]

Yes lot’s of spammy traffic but they just end up at my normal site. I just want to remove those URLs from google. Hopefully there is a simple soloution to redirect all those URLs to a 404 page and google should quickly remove them.