You've rebuilt your page, put the new link in your bio, and announced the move. Everything looks lovely, including the photo you took after moving the laundry out of frame.
Then someone finds an older post about your printmaking workshop. They follow its link and land on an empty page. The new place could have a marching band outside, but that doesn't help someone standing at the old address.
When you move your work, the invitations you've already shared need some attention too.
Follow an older invitation
Say there's a printmaking creator who has moved her workshop replay to a new page. She updates her bio and posts the announcement, but a supply-list post still sends readers to the previous location.
A fan saves that supply list, buys the paper, and comes back on Sunday with the kitchen table cleared. Now they're trying to find the workshop while protecting the paper from a cat with excellent timing.
They don't need another introduction to the creator. They need the replay they came for.
Start where that person starts. Open the older post, follow its link, and keep going until you reach the promised work. Check the route while signed out too, so your own account doesn't hide a problem a visitor would encounter.
Leave directions where people arrive
If you can edit the older post, update the link and say where the replay now lives. If you control the previous page, leave a short explanation and a direct link to its replacement.
Your site may also support a redirect, which sends visitors from an old address to a different one. Google's redirect guide explains the options; check what your own host allows before relying on one.
Keep the destination specific. Someone following a workshop invitation shouldn't have to search your entire homepage to find the workshop. If the replay is no longer available, say that instead of sending them on a treasure hunt with no treasure.
You might not control every old link, especially one somebody else shared. Repair the parts you can reach without promising that every route will survive every platform change.
Finish one complete route
Choose an older post that still represents work you're happy for people to find. Follow it through, fix any wrong turn you control, then check it again as a visitor.
That gives you a useful place to start before attempting an archaeological survey of your entire internet life.
Your fan already remembered you and made time for the workshop. Help them get to it before the cat claims the table.
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