Redirects documentation

Setting it up, and how each part works: 18 sections, free to read before you buy.

  1. Getting startedInstall the plugin, activate it, and enter your licence key under Redirects → Licence.
  2. The problem this solvesA page's address is what every link to it points at.
  3. Adding a redirectRedirects → Redirects.
  4. Renamed pagesSettings → Renamed pages.
  5. Renaming a categoryThe same setting covers categories, tags and WooCommerce product categories, because their archive pages have addresses too, and on a shop that is where most links point.
  6. Changing your permalinksSettings → Renamed pages → Keep old addresses working when the permalink structure changes.
  7. While you are editing a pageEvery page and post has an Old addresses panel beside the editor.
  8. From the command lineEvery screen has a command, which matters for two things a browser is bad at.
  9. Checking your own redirectsSettings → Checking your own redirects, and a Check them now button on the Redirects screen.
  10. Broken linksRedirects → Broken links.
  11. SettingsWhat a new redirect starts as.
  12. Who can manage redirectsThe people who rename pages are often editors or shop managers, and until you choose otherwise only administrators can manage redirects.
  13. Coming from another redirect pluginSettings → Redirects from Other Plugins looks in this site's database for the redirects kept by Redirection, Rank Math, Yoast SEO Premium and Safe Redirect Manager.
  14. Moving your redirects between sitesTwo separate things, on the Settings screen.
  15. Things that catch people outA redirect that does not seem to fire.
  16. Multisite networksWorks on a single site and on a WordPress Multisite network.
  17. SpeedThe addresses that have a redirect are kept in memory as a set of small numbers — loaded before the question is asked, on the same request.
  18. UninstallingDeactivating leaves everything alone.

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