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Redirection

Redirection

Manage 301 redirects, track 404 errors, and improve your site. No knowledge of Apache or Nginx required.

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Description

Redirection is the most popular redirect manager for WordPress. With it you can easily manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This can help reduce errors and improve your site ranking.

Redirection is designed to be used on sites with a few redirects to sites with thousands of redirects.

It has been a WordPress plugin for over 10 years and has been recommended countless times. And it’s free!

Full documentation can be found at https://redirection.me

Redirection is compatible with PHP from 7.0 to 8.3.

Redirect manager

Create and manage redirects quickly and easily without needing Apache or Nginx knowledge. If your WordPress supports permalinks then you can use Redirection to redirect any URL.

There is full support for regular expressions so you can create redirect patterns to match any number of URLs. You can match query parameters and even pass them through to the target URL.

The plugin can also be configured to monitor when post or page permalinks are changed and automatically create a redirect to the new URL.

Conditional redirects

In addition to straightforward URL matching you can redirect based on other conditions:

  • Login status – redirect only if the user is logged in or logged out
  • WordPress capability – redirect if the user is able to perform a certain capability
  • Browser – redirect if the user is using a certain browser
  • Referrer – redirect if the user visited the link from another page
  • Cookies – redirect if a particular cookie is set
  • HTTP headers – redirect based on a HTTP header
  • Custom filter – redirect based on your own WordPress filter
  • IP address – redirect if the client IP address matches
  • Server – redirect another doma... [truncated]

Installation

The plugin is simple to install:

  1. Download redirection.zip
  2. Unzip
  3. Upload redirection directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory
  4. Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
  5. Configure the options from the Tools/Redirection page

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.

Full documentation can be found on the Redirection site.

WP-CLI Installation:
wp plugin install redirection --activate

Frequently Asked Questions

Why would I want to use this instead of .htaccess?

Ease of use. Redirections are automatically created when a post URL changes, and it is a lot easier to manually add redirections than to hack around a .htaccess. You also get the added benefit of being able to keep track of 404 errors.

What is the performance of this plugin?

The plugin works in a similar manner to how WordPress handles permalinks and should not result in any noticeable slowdown to your site.

Changelog

A x.1 version increase introduces new or updated features and can be considered to contain ‘breaking’ changes. A x.x.1 increase is purely a bug fix and introduces no new features, and can be considered as containing no breaking changes.

5.5.2

  • Fix saving of x-frame-options
  • Fix CPT loading
  • Fix last access date changing on update
  • Remove newsletter option

5.5.1

  • Fix problem with category pages and permalink migration
  • Don’t report invalid JSON import as successful
  • Exclude CPTs without URLs for monitoring
  • Update for WP 6.7

5.5.0

  • Multiple ‘URL and WP page type’ redirects will now work
  • Translations now use WP core

5.4.2 – 27th January 2024

  • Remove Geo IP option (it may return)
  • Fix crash in agent info
  • Add new max-age header
  • Remove deprecated ini_set call

Statistics

Active Installs2.0M+
Downloads63.0M+
Version5.5.2
Last UpdatedInvalid Date

Requirements

WordPress
6.4+
PHP
7.0
Tested up to
6.8.3

Support

Resolution Rate15%
Total Threads13
Resolved2

Tags

301404apachehtaccessredirect