Blog Link Redirect Plugin

By Steve Renner | June 29, 2008

Continuing our series on How To Supercharge Your Blog we will begin to explore plugins. Here is a cool Redirect plugin available for Wordpress Blog called (appropriately enough) Redirection. It’s available over at Urban Giraffe. This is a useful plugin for your Affiliate Marketing

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. New features include:

404 error monitoring - captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to easily map these to 301 redirects
RSS feed for 404 errors
Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.
Full logs for all redirected URLs
All URLs can be redirected, including ones outside WordPress
Redirection methods - redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!

Existing features include:

Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes
Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post, or for any other file
Full regular expression support
Apache .htaccess is not required - works entirely inside WordPress
Strip or add www to all your WordPress pages
Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
Redirection statistics telling you how many times a redirection has occurred, when it last happened, who tried to do it, and where they found your URL
Fully localized

Download - Installation

Installation is just like any WordPress plugin:

Download redirection.zip
Unzip
Upload to redirection directory to /wp-content/plugins on your server
Activate the plugin
Configure options from Manage » Redirection

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page. Note that you must have a permalinks structure setup through WordPress. [tags] access blog blogging blogs directories directory feeds giraffe local locals logs map news permalinks referrals rss statistics url wordpress