This can be a tricky one!
Redirecting using .htaccess can be hit and miss at the best of times. If you want to redirect any url that contains a specific text without wordpress then that code snippet is here.
But add to that the nature of WordPress and cache it can be a nightmare.
But it seems I have found an effective way to redirect in WordPress.
If my URL’s are like below and I wanted to redirect any URL that contained the directory /dogs/ it would mean redirecting each page manually, if you had 1000 of these it would take ages!
http://aq.gthex.co.uk:10000/dogs/mycode/fun1
http://aq.gthex.co.uk:10000/dogs/mycode/fun2
http://aq.gthex.co.uk:10000/dogs/mycode/fun3
In wordpress the normal redirection plugin does not seem to do what is needed. I tried the regex code but it failed each time.
But what did work was the plugin SEO 301 Meta
Any time a url contains /dogs/ it will be redirected to / (the base domain)
