Will McLean is a designer and artist working in the Central Coast of NSW where he lives with his wife and 2 children.

Will is a meticulous developer and favours simplicity and clarity within his code. He can’t stand writing things twice so searches for any way to automate. His experiments can be found in the Exercises section of this site.

Will designs within systems. No project is too small for a design system. He favours the unusual, if not, how can he progress? You can read about his work in the Case Studies section of this site.

Updated: November 1, 2017

This is a Knowledge Base post.

Setting up .htaccess URL Redirects in WordPress

The correct way to setup redirects within the WordPress .htaccess file is to put your redirects above the WordPress pretty permalinks code like so:

# BEGIN Redirects

Redirect 301 /from-here/ http://www.domain.com/to-here

# END Redirects

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress