How to Create a 301 Post redirect in Ghost

 Santhosh veer  Last Updated: February 8, 2018  Ghost, Seo

In this tutorial, we are going to see the method to Create a 301 Post redirect in Ghost.
Ghost having built-in redirection feature you can see this option on your ghost admin dashboard lab section.

One of the Best Feature from Ghost CMS 🙂 No need to touch the Nginx Host file for add Redirection codes.you can do anything from the Ghost redirects.

it having a lot of Redirects option here is the official docs – https://docs.ghost.org/v1/docs/redirects

CREATE A 301 POST REDIRECT IN GHOST

• Login to your Ghost admin dashboard
• Goto labs
• you can find the Redirects option on Labs

• Download current redirects file (redirects.json)
• by default, it is an Empty JSON File
• Open this file in any Code editors
• Now I am going to Create a 301 Post redirection

{
 "permanent": true,
 "from": "/best-cryptocurrency-to-invest/",
 "to": "/"
 }

• that above code for redirect deleted post into the Homepage

“permanent”: true, – Permanent 301 redirects

from – Add your old post URL or deleted post URL

to – Add your New post URL or Homepage URL use / for homepage redirection

EXAMPLE

{
 "permanent": true,
 "from": "/my-old-blog-post/",
 "to": "/new-updated-blog-post/"
 }

• Here is My Full code

redirects.json

[

{
 "permanent": true,
 "from": "/best-cryptocurrency-to-invest/",
 "to": "/"
 }
]

• Upload the Redirects JSON file from your Ghost Admin Dashboard (we can find the redirects.json file on content/data/redirects.json)
• cURL Verify

• That’s all Successfully we create a 301 Post Redirection in Ghost

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Before Uploading your redirects File validate your JSON codes in offline or online tools like JSONLINT.