> 🎯 Set redirect urls in your YAML frontmatter within your [Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org) site's Markdown files. Mimics the behavior of [jekyll-redirect-from](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from).
By adding a list of urls to the YAML frontmatter, this plugin creates redirects for all of them at build time. It uses Gatsby's [createRedirect](https://next.gatsbyjs.org/docs/actions/#createRedirect) under the hood.
- Markdown files delivered from [gatsby-transformer-remark](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark)
-`slug` on `allMarkdownRemark.edges.node.fields`
Plugin assumes the default setup from [gatsby-starter-blog](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog), with Markdown files processing by [gatsby-transformer-remark](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/tree/master/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark) and adding a field `slug` for each file node. Head over to gatsby-starter-blog's [gatsby-node.js](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog/blob/master/gatsby-node.js#L57) file to see how this is done.
Gatsby's `createRedirect` only creates client-side redirects, so further integration is needed to get server redirects too. Which is highly dependent on your hosting, if you want to have the proper HTML status codes like `301`, Apache needs `.htaccess` rules for that, nginx `rewrite` rules, S3 `RoutingRules` and so on.
One simple way, as suggested in installation, is to use [gatsby-plugin-meta-redirect](https://github.com/getchalk/gatsby-plugin-meta-redirect) to generate static HTML files with a `<meta http-equiv="refresh" />` tag for every `createRedirect` call. So it works out of the box with this plugin without further adjustments.
This way is the most compatible way of handling redirects, working with pretty much every hosting provider. Only catch: it's only for usability, no SEO-friendly `301` redirect is set anywhere.
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