WHOA! It actually worked! First time!
@cmoneyspinner (9223)
Austin, Texas
June 17, 2020 4:09pm CST
Not many members are as active as I am on Tumblr. But for those who use the Tumblr platform they know the site has its "peculiarities" especially if you try to make a minor edit or change.
This hardly ever happens. It hardly ever happens that I find the right instructions, do what it says, and it works! Most of the time it may work for everyone else but not for me!
I wanted to change the URL for my blog and I wanted to redirect visitors from my old blog to my new blog. So at first I read some of that stuff about "301 redirects". It went over my head. I'm not a geek.
But today I decided to try again. I Googled something like "redirect old Tumblr url to new url" and out pops 2 search results.
I clicked the first link, followed the instructions and ... ??? ... NOPE! It's didn't work!
Ah well! If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
So I clicked the second link. At first I thought the instructions were more complicated. But then I realized that the person who prepared the content made it simple and supplied screenshots so that I would know if I was doing it right.
In other words, the instructions were written in a "How to Redirect the URL FOR DUMMIES LIKE ME!" style.
I totally expected it not to work. Guess what? IT WORKED!!
I couldn't believe it!
I didn't have to try it several times, waste a good part of the day, and then end up frustrated. I clicked the old URL and it redirected to the new URL.
WHOA! I was dancing and jumping for joy!
I know my fellow Tumblr bloggers would probably want to know how to do this so I made sure to type up a short post with the link to the instructions and shared it via my Tumblr posts stream.
It's been a really good day!
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