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

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