title: Redirecting from old Drupal site to Wordpress site on same domain
body: <p>I am redesigning an old Drupal site and am switching to Wordpress as the client would like this. The site will be on the same domain but the URL structure will be different.</p>
  
  <p>I am currently working on the site using xampp on my localhost but am not sure what the best way would be to implement the redirects. If I make a .htaccess file and manually input the URL links, would it be fine to delete the old site? and would this keep the ranking on google the same? Also is there a big difference between manually creating the htaccess file vs using a plugin for redirects?</p>
  
  <p>I've read different things online and some of this is old information so am wondering what would be the best way to approach this situation? Any advice or links would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>