I currently have a static QR code which is connected to a URL on a Wordpress site. I am in the process of switching to Shopify and I see that you are not able to set custom URL’s as Shopify adds “/page” without any way to remove this. I am wondering if redirecting the URL will break the QR code or not. My issue is that the code is printed on garments, so simply creating a new code won’t work for me
To give an example. The current URL connected to the QR code looks like this: vaagal.store/newcollection.
On Shopify it will be: vaagal.store/page/newcollection
Will redirection from vaagal.store/newcollection to vaagal.store/page/newcollection break the QR code?
Then create the redirect you are saying and test one of the QR codes. You will see if your browser URL properly redirects even if the redirect page doesn’t exist yet.
There should be no reason that it would not redirect given the QR code just represents a URL and it is up to the browser and URL redirects on what happens from there.
Ok, Thanks! This was very helpful! So just to be sure, the QR code should still work, even if the old URL which it was connected to, do no longer exist?
As long as you own the vaagal.store domain name, any redirect you set up from an old page such as vaagal.store/newcollection to vaagal.store/page/newcollection will not break.
Please be aware, if you are going to update your store from Wordpress to Shopify, this link redirect is not the only one you need to setup. If you are currently running a store which products and different collections, you will have multiple broken pages you need to fix.
If you do not fix the broken links, Google will punish your domain name due to the negligence.
I just ran a test. I created a new site on Wordpress and created a QR code for the site. Then I when to Shopify and made an URL redirect to a Shopify site:
Then I deleted the Wordpress page and scanned the QR code to see if it will redirect me to the Shopify page even if the Wordpress page do no longer exist. However I only come to the Wordpress site and it tells me that the site does not exist.
Aaa, wait. I think maybe the redirect only works fore Shopify pages? When I put in the URL: https://vaagal.store/vaagal-test-side/, It automatically shortens it to: /vaagal-test-side/.
This is correct. URL redirects can be used to redirect traffic from one Shopify web page to another (Shopify). When you change a URL on your Shopify store, you can create a URL redirect to ensure your customers can still find what they’re looking for. For example, if you delete a product, then you can set up a URL redirect so that when customers enter the URL for that product, they’re redirected to a similar product on your store.
If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know.
