@edent - what web server are you using? I wouldn't bother with any Wordpress plu...

edent · on Nov 27, 2016

Thank you for that. Not to seem ungrateful, but I'm wary of pasting "might work" code onto my blog.

What if it goes wrong? What if it has unexpected side effects? What if Google crawls it and makes things worse?

There are currently 3 variants of the above posted in the comments. I've no idea which to choose...

I guess I'll try and hope that it doesn't make things worse :-)

jc4p · on Nov 27, 2016

It's a very understandable worry :) Writing rules that when they fail just go into server error logs is sub-optimal at best. The real solution would be Google allowing per-site AMP de-registration, but that's a fantasy I bet.

This is a good article on Apache URL rewriting, if you want to go down that path: https://24ways.org/2013/url-rewriting-for-the-fearful/

I believe in your use case you want to transform `all/urls/of/any/sort/that/end/in/amp/` and simply redirect to everything minus the `/amp/`, so the rewrite rule shouldn't be too bad to write (and test).

I wouldn't use the "might work" in my comment since I wrote it without even seeing if the regex works, but if you get an Apache test domain running off your blog you can test the redirect rules in isolation before putting them on your blog.

jamies888888 · on Nov 27, 2016

Yep, I just posted almost exactly this on the blog.

jc4p · on Nov 27, 2016

The only thing that worries me about it is I haven't used Apache for years but I distinctively remember the last time I used Apache + Wordpress I failed to setup redirect rules that would keep my blog functioning but also let `/resume/` redirect to `/resume.pdf`.

If I got my redirect working, it killed all Wordpress's pretty url rewriting. Hopefully that was just an issue in my specific case though.

If the redirect rules don't work, there's lots of Wordpress redirect plug-ins though. I've used some in the past for when a post is edited and the slug is changed between initial social media burst and finalizing. Just a redirect from the old URL slug to the new one.

A plug-in like that alongside a script that allocates all the posts on the blog then manually writes into the plug-in's database table, that might work as a much uglier workaround.