Fix For Home Page Redirects To Newly Published Pages Problem After Upgrading To WordPress 3.0

Issue: After upgrading to WordPress 3.0, when you publish a new page, the home page redirects to this page. If you view the headers of the page, you will find a 301 Permanent Redirect to the page. If you are also one of those who are facing this issue, then here is a solution for this problem.

Cause: This problem is caused by Redirection plugin for WordPress. For some reason, this plugin is not working correctly with WordPress 3.0, when new pages are published. It adds a permanent redirection from the root of your domain to any newly published or updated pages.

Fix: You can fix this problem by removing the 301 redirects added by Redirection plugin.

1. Go to Tools –> Redirection from your WordPress dashboard.

2. Click on the ‘Groups’ link found at the top.

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3. You should now be able to find a redirection for the root (\) to a page in this group. Select this redirection and delete it.

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That’s it. This should solve your home page redirection problem in WordPress 3.0.

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Posted On June 24, 2010 | Tags:

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9 Comments

  1. Masdin says: July 5, 2010 at 9:50 am

    I am feeling so lucky to find this post. Thank you very much. I didn’t have any suspect for the redirection plug at first. I tough the problem is related to theme. Thank you very much my homepage is not redirected again…

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  2. Bryan says: July 9, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Wow. SO LUCKY TO FIND THIS POST!!

    I am working on a website that I did not build myself and I am not familiar with the Redirection Plugin. I was pulling my hair out for a good half hour trying to understand this incredibly frustrating bug.

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting!

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  3. Brandon says: July 9, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Thank you so much for this! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what the issue was!

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  4. Picxx says: July 22, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks for posting this.
    I had this problem and reinstalled my whole site.
    Then the problem occured again, and i was lucky enough to bump into this post.

    Reply
  5. Chip says: August 1, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. WordPress is always a trip, isn’t it? Appreciate the help.

    Reply
  6. photoshopbrushes says: August 12, 2010 at 10:44 am

    Great post, it saved my day :)

    Reply
  7. Thanx says: August 12, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Thanks for the post, didn’t understand this little problem until I saw this post.

    Reply
  8. Bhavyesh says: August 15, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    Thnx buddy, that was really helpful.. was lookin for the solution since last 3 hrs…

    Reply
  9. Glenn Friesen says: August 17, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    Dude. Thank you.

    Thank you; thank you; thank you!

    Reply

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