I have a section of pages, which I have duplicated, so that we can work on a new version.
I want to put this live now - but realised that I have links throughout the site which link to the ‘old’ section IDs.
So - old section has a list of pages with the IDs 10,11,12,13
and the new section has the same page URLs, but with the new IDs of 20,21,22,23.
I was hoping to do 301 redirects, but these work on the URL, which is the same as the old section.
is there a way to set up redirects so that if there is a link to [[~10]] (which will no longer exist), it will forward the user to [[~20]].
Maybe instead of deleting the old pages, you could change them into Weblinks (with new aliases) that point to the new resources. Then set the system setting use_weblink_target to Yes so that the output of [[~10]] stays the same.
That what I thought originally, but you can only redirect urls - not ids. I think?!
The aliases are the same on old and new - do it’s fine for external users and google indexing - but other pages have links to ids which are now breaking.
You can give the old pages a different alias (you’ll need to do that regardless if new and old are published), and give that the new resource ID as the weblink target. Then your [[~10]] links in pages or templates will go to /some-page-old which then redirects to /some-page.
There’s also a setting, use_weblink_target, that you can enable. When that’s on, resource 10 is a weblink that points to resource 20, [[~10]] will immediately point to resource 20.
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