Header/Footer Plugin Question

Hi there,

Sorry I'm not familiar with that plugin.

Hooks elements is pretty straight forward - it allows you to add whatever code you want into the hook specific.

If you have more specific questions then I can definitely let you know if it's achievable with hooks elements or not :)

Hi Leo,

The person at namecheap (domain name/host provider) suggested that I needed to insert code (included at the bottom of the post) into the header in order to workaround an inability to set a 301 redirect, and they told me that it was only achievable with that plugin. I don't believe it is. I also don't believe that the code they suggest is the right way to go either.

I tested url variations here to see where 301 redirects would need to be set up:

http://redirectcheck.com

The only variation that seemingly needed one was https://www.reclaimdesign.org which throws a 200:

HTTP/2 200
date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:59:58 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 89661
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-ua-compatible: IE=edge
link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/"
link: ; rel=shortlink
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
cache-control: public
referrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
x-cacheable: YES
age: 1356
x-cache: HIT
accept-ranges: bytes

They told me the only way to do this was to add this to the header using that plugin:

<script type="text/javascript">
if ( document.domain.substring(0,4).toLowerCase() == 'www.' ) {
window.location = document.URL.replace("//www.","//");
}
</script>

This does not seem like a solution at all, just stripping the www? Anyway, if you are able to give me any pointers or shed any light that would be much appreciated. I can't see the wood for the trees. Was having an online live chat to and fro with namecheap for some 5 hours yesterday and didn't really get anywhere, which is a bit demoralizing.

Thanks for your help.

Michael.

Hi there,

if you must use that code to get it to work then you can add it via a Hook Element and select the WP_Head hook.

Thanks David - I thought as much. Namescheap weren't having a bar of it though, so I thought I'd better check here. I appreciate the help.

You're welcome