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What is a redirect, in plain words?

Updated Redirects 1.8.1Tested with WordPress 7.1

A page's address is what every link to it points at — search results, old emails, other people's sites, somebody's bookmark. Rename the page and all of those stop working on the same afternoon.

A redirect says "that address moved here", so anybody following an old link still arrives. A permanent one also tells search engines to move what the old address had earned across to the new one.

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The Your redirects list in Redirects for WordPress admin, its destinations last checked 11 seconds ago. Seven rows: /black-friday-2025 (410, the page is gone), /summer-sale to /product-category/t-shirts/ (302), /news/* marked whole section to /journal/, /product/organic-tee, /size-guide and /returns-policy pointing to new pages (301), and /sample-page marked from a rename. Each shows how many times it was used and Edit, Switch off and Delete buttons.