Which links to map across in site redesign
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Hi there,
I'm currently doing a fairly major website redesign for a client. They are moving to my hosting so I am creating the site on my cloud account and have edited my host files to work on it.
The site structure will stay largely the same as it is quite a straightforward services site. However I'm moving them onto Wordpress from a different set up and I'm not sure how many of the links that they have, that aren't straight forward pages, I need to create redirects for.
I have used Screaming Frog to get a list of all their URLs, of which there are 82. However alongside text/ html links I have:
image/jpeg text/css
application/javascriptDo I need to create redirects for all of these link types? Or just any of the pages I'm not using?
Many thanks,
Sarah.
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Hey Sarah,
You would just need to create redirects for the HTML pages. I wouldn't worry about the JS/images.
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