Title: Redirect Old Links Author: ryanshoover Published: Març 16, 2017 Last modified: Març 20, 2017 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/redirect-old-links/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1627557) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/redirect-old-links/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1627557) # Redirect Old Links By [ryanshoover](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanshoover/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/redirect-old-links.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/#description) * [Reviews](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/#reviews) * [Installation](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/#installation) * [Development](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/) ## Description Changing your link structure in WordPress can lead to all of your old links breaking and returning a “404”. But no more! If someone goes to an old link for your site, I’ll find the new link and redirect them there automatically. No configuration. No one-by-one setting of the new link structures. No wrestling with complicated regex patterns. Just install me and relax. _Redirect 404s_ works with posts, pages, and custom post types (like ecommerce products). * Note – the plugin only works for permalink structures where the last “chunk” of the URL is the post name (also called the slug). ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu 3. Done! ## FAQ How do I configure the plugin? No configuration necessary! I automatically tests all 404 links to see if they might resolve to an existing post. If I find a post that matches, I’ll just redirect the visitor to that post. How do you know when a post matches? I take the last “chunk” of the URL and assume it’s a post name. Then I search for any posts with that name. If I find one, I redirect the user to the post I found. Since I use this method, I won’t work for _all_ permalink structures. But the vast majority end in the post name, so I’ll work just fine on most sites. Examples: * /2017/02/this-is-the-last-chunk/ * /announcements/this-is-the-last- chunk/ Do you work with custom post types like ecommerce products? Sure do! I’ll search all public post types for the post name to see if I find one. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e4a9e5232f827eb0ff90ebecec5871abdde789d11b5173a1f7b58f453113703? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Finally a 301 plugin which works and don’t need any setup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/finally-a-301-which-works-and-dont-need-any-setup/)󠁿 [maxmoon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxmoon/) Març 26, 2017 I was looking for about 3 hours for a plugin, which can redirect all sites if you change the permalinks structure in WordPress. After 5 plugins I almost gave up, because none of them worked if you have another direction of your WordPress installation or if you have a multi lingual blog (permalinks with /de/ or /en/). But with this plugin everything works! And I haven’t configured anything… just installed it and it worked! It’s just amazing! [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Redirect Old Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ ryanshoover ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanshoover/) [Translate “Redirect Old Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redirect-old-links) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/redirect-old-links/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/redirect-old-links/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/redirect-old-links/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/redirect-old-links/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog * 1.0.0 Initial release to wordpress.org repository * 0.2 Update the query to search for all post names, instead of just matching off of `get_page_by_path()` * 0.1 Initial release ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **9 anys ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.7.33** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/) * Tags * [404](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/404/)[permalinks](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permalinks/) [redirect](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirect/)[seo](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) * [Advanced View](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-old-links/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirect-old-links/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ ryanshoover ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ryanshoover/) ## Support Got something to say? 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