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WordPress 301 Redirect Plugin Released

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve released my first WordPress plugin. It’s called Simple 301 Redirects and it does just what it says on the tin. It provides an interface for redirecting URL requests. It’s handy for when you’ve migrated a site to WordPress and are unable to maintain the URL structure. With Simple 301 Redirects you can redirect your old urls like “/about.html” to new, clean URLs like “http://www.yoursite.com/pages/about/” or whatever you like. Redirecting your old links to new destinations is important for preserving inbound links and pagerank after migrating a site. And this plugin does it in the easiest possible way I could think of.

You can read a little bit more about the plugin at its official home on this site or go straight to the WordPress plugin directory to download it. I hope you find it helpful!

Simple 301 Redirects Plugin Screenshot

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9 Responses to “WordPress 301 Redirect Plugin Released”

  1. Eric P Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Very nice and elegantly crafted WordPress plug-in for redirecting discontinued web pages (either because a site moved, or because a site’s page has expired).

    Will be useful to mask affiliate marketing links as well.

    The code is very well written and adheres to the WordPress API standards…so it should make it though WordPress upgrades without a hitch.

    Many of these I’ve seen are SO over-done. This is simple (as the name implies) to install and use.

    Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!!

  2. Scott Nelle Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Thanks Eric! I’m glad you like the plugin and I hope that you find it useful in the long-term.

  3. Ann Kingman Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was a lifesaver for me! I recently moved my blog from blogger to WordPress and inadvertently killed an old RSS feed which had hundreds of subscribers. This plugin allowed me to redirect the feed to my Feedburner feed.

    By the way, such a redirect was something that my webhost customer service person told me could not be done because I was running WordPress and it would redirect my entire site. I’m so glad that I was able to prove them wrong with the help of your plugin.

  4. Scott Nelle Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    You’re very welcome, Ann! I’m glad that you were able to get your RSS feed properly redirected.

  5. horeca Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 5:55 am

    it look that it don’t work with old static files, for example to redirect /home.html to a new wordpress page, using wp 2.9.2 ..

  6. Scott Nelle Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    If the file still exists on the server, WordPress generally won’t process the request. If it’s still there, try renaming it or deleting it (make sure to save a backup, just in case.)

  7. Larry Moore Says:
    July 1st, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    How do you delete a redirect that you will not be using anymore? I don’t see anywhere to delete them.

  8. cbee Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    Hello,

    Thanks for a terrific plugin!

    Question: I’m receiving redirect loop errors, most likely redirecting a redirect (not sure).

    How do I undo a redirect?

  9. Scott Nelle Says:
    July 13th, 2010 at 11:01 am

    You’re welcome! To remove a redirect just clear out both fields on that row and save. It will remove any empty rows automatically.

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