UpdraftPlus vs 404 to 301 – Redirect Manager, 404 Error Logs & Notifications

404 to 301 is a complete redirect manager and 404 error monitor for WordPress. Build your own custom redirects (301, 302, 307 and more) with exact, prefix or regex matching, automatically redirect every remaining 404 error to any page you choose, and keep a full log of every broken link that hits your site — so you can fix the real problem instead of just hiding it. An optional email alert lets you know the moment a URL starts getting hit. Whether you are managing redirects after a site migration, cleaning up old URLs following a redesign, or simply protecting your SEO and visitor experience from dead links, 404 to 301 gives you precise redirect management and a 404 logging safety net for everything you miss — all from a fast, modern admin. Custom redirects Take full control of your URLs with a built-in redirect manager: Create unlimited custom redirects with your choice of redirect type (301, 302, 307 and more). Match URLs by exact path, prefix or regular expression (regex) for precise or pattern-based rules. Enable or disable individual redirects without deleting them. See a hit counter and last-hit timestamp on every redirect so you know what’s actually being used. Manage everything from a full-featured table with search, filters, bulk actions and pagination. Automatic 404 redirection Don’t have a custom rule for a broken URL? Set a global fallback and automatically redirect every leftover 404 error to your homepage, a custom page, or any URL — with the redirect type of your choice. No more dead-end 404 pages costing you visitors and link equity. 404 error logs Know exactly which links are breaking on your site: Log every 404 error with the requested URL, referrer, IP address, user agent and timestamp. Duplicate hits are deduplicated and counted, so a busy broken URL is one row with a hit count — not thousands. Track each error through a lifecycle status (open / ignored / fixed) and filter logs by date. Turn any logged 404 into a redirect in a couple of clicks. GDPR-friendly: IP addresses can be masked, and you can exclude paths you don’t care about from logging. Email notifications Get an email alert when broken links appear, with a configurable hit threshold so busy sites don’t flood your inbox. Stay on top of new 404s without living in the dashboard. Built for performance and developers The plugin does work only on a 404 request — healthy page loads are never touched. Custom redirects are matched by a hashed, indexed lookup for near-instant resolution. REST API at /404-to-301/v1/ for every admin operation. Full WP-CLI command set: wp 404-to-301 logs|redirects|settings. A filterable action pipeline so developers can hook in their own logic. Multisite compatible — each site keeps its own redirects and logs. Add-ons Extend 404 to 301 with official add-ons. Browse the full catalogue at https://duckdev.com/addons/404-to-301/, or open the Add-ons tab inside the plugin. Free add-ons Redirects Importer — Bulk import custom redirects into 404 to 301 from CSV files, or migrate them in from other redirect plugins like Redirection by John Godley and 301 Redirects – Redirect Manager by WebFactory — no manual re-entry. Logs Exporter — Export the 404 error log table as a downloadable CSV file directly from the Logs page. Premium add-ons Logs Cleaner — Auto-prune the 404 log table by age, by row count, or on a periodic schedule to keep your database lean. Email Reports — Periodic email reports — daily, weekly or monthly digests of your 404 activity, each with an attached CSV. Telegram Alerts — Real-time Telegram alerts for 404 errors and redirects, delivered in the background so visitors never wait on the API call. Documentation & Support Documentation: https://docs.duckdev.com/404-to-301/ Support forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/404-to-301/ Add-ons: https://duckdev.com/addons/404-to-301/

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. 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