Redirects documentation
Setting it up, and how each part works: 18 sections, free to read before you buy.
- Getting startedInstall the plugin, activate it, and enter your licence key under Redirects → Licence.
- The problem this solvesA page's address is what every link to it points at.
- Adding a redirectRedirects → Redirects.
- Renamed pagesSettings → Renamed pages.
- 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.
- Changing your permalinksSettings → Renamed pages → Keep old addresses working when the permalink structure changes.
- While you are editing a pageEvery page and post has an Old addresses panel beside the editor.
- From the command lineEvery screen has a command, which matters for two things a browser is bad at.
- Checking your own redirectsSettings → Checking your own redirects, and a Check them now button on the Redirects screen.
- Broken linksRedirects → Broken links.
- SettingsWhat a new redirect starts as.
- Who can manage redirectsThe people who rename pages are often editors or shop managers, and until you choose otherwise only administrators can manage redirects.
- 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.
- Moving your redirects between sitesTwo separate things, on the Settings screen.
- Things that catch people outA redirect that does not seem to fire.
- Multisite networksWorks on a single site and on a WordPress Multisite network.
- 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.
- UninstallingDeactivating leaves everything alone.
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