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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 7.4 to 8.4.

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:

Full logging

A configurable logging option allows to view all redirects occurring on your site, including information about the visitor, the browser used, and the referrer. A ‘hit’ count is maintained for each redirect so you can see if a URL is being used.

Logs can be exported for external viewing, and can be searched and filtered for more detailed investigation.

Display geographic information about an IP address, as well as a full user agent information, to try and understand who the visitor is.

You are able to disable or reduce IP collection to meet the legal requirements of your geographic region, and can change the amount of information captured from the bare minimum to HTTP headers.

You can also log any redirect happening on your site, including those performed outside of Redirection.

Add HTTP headers

HTTP headers can be added to redirects or your entire site that help reduce the impact of redirects or help increase security. You can also add your own custom headers.

Track 404 errors

Redirection will keep track of all 404 errors that occur on your site, allowing you to track down and fix problems.

Errors can be grouped to show where you should focus your attention, and can be redirected in bulk.

Query parameter handling

You can match query parameters exactly, ignore them, and even pass them through to your target.

Changed your permalink structure? You can migrate old permalinks simply by entering the old permalink structure. Multiple migrations are supported.

Apache & Nginx support

By default Redirection will manage all redirects using WordPress. However you can configure it so redirects are automatically saved to a .htaccess file and handled by Apache itself.

If you use Nginx then you can export redirects to an Nginx rewrite rules file.

Fine-grained permissions

Fine-grained permissions are available so you can customise the plugin for different users. This makes it particularly suitable for client sites where you may want to prevent certain actions, and remove functionality.

Import & Export

The plugin has a fully-featured import and export system and you can:

You can also import from the following plugins:

Search RegEx compatible

Redirection is compatible with Search Regex, allowing you to bulk update your redirects.

Wait, it’s free?

Yes, it’s really free. There’s no premium version and no need to pay money to get access to features. This is a dedicated redirect management plugin.

Support

Please submit bugs, patches, and feature requests to:

https://github.com/johngodley/redirection

Please submit translations to:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redirection

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.

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.

Good, works well. Does what it is supposed to do.

Redirection makes managing redirects simple. It helps fix broken links and keeps the site running smoothly.

Reliable, fast and flexible. Love this plugin for managing internal redirects, campaigns, UTMs, outbound referral links, etc. Part of my core plugins for any WP site.

I’ve been using it for years, and has always done its job without causing any issues. I recommend it.

Whenever I go live with a new website that has different URLs to the old version of the website, I use Redirection to make sure the old links still go somewhere, and that SEO for those pages keeps on working. It’s well built and reliable. Whatever you do, avoid the other plugin that’s ripped off the name of this one.

I needed to add redirections for some changed blog post URLs and the plugin is really helpful for that.

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“Redirection” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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.

5.7 – 15th February 2026

5.6.1 – 17th January 2026

5.6.0 – 1st January 2026

5.5.2 – 16th February 2025

5.5.1 – 24th November 2024

5.5.0 – 10th August 2024

5.4.2 – 27th January 2024

5.4.1 – 5th January 2024

5.4 – 1st January 2024

5.3.10 – 2nd April 2023

5.3.9 – 25th January 2023

5.3.8 – 22nd January 2023

5.3.7 – 8th January 2023

5.3.6 – 12th November 2022

5.3.5 – 6th November 2022

5.3.4 – 14th September 2022

5.3.3 – 7th September 2022

5.3.2 – 6th August 2022

5.3.1 – 29th July 2022

5.3.0 – 21st July 2022

5.2.3 – 6th February 2022

5.2.2 – 22nd January 2022

5.2.1 – 16th January 2022

5.2 – 15th January 2022

5.1.3 – 24th July 2021

5.1.2 – 17th July 2021

5.1.1 – 11th April 2021

5.1 – 10th April 2021

5.0.1 – 26th Jan 2021

5.0 – 16th Jan 2021