301 Redirects – Redirect Manager vs Pivot QR

301 Redirects helps you manage and create 301, 302, 307 redirects for WordPress site to improve SEO & visitor experience. 301 Redirects is easy to use. Perfect for new sites or repairing links after reorganizing your old content, or when your site has content that expires and you wish to avoid sending visitors to a 404 error page and want to create redirection instead. Use the 404 error log to identify problematic links & create new redirections. Having problems with spam, bots, or AI scrapers? Have a look at our free Captcha plugin used on over 200,000 sites. 301 Redirects GUI is located in WP Admin – Settings – 301 Redirects 404 Error Log widget can be found in the WP Admin – Dashboard – 404 Error Log Features Choose from Pages, Posts, Custom Post types, Archives, and Term Archives from dropdown menu to create redirection Or, set a custom destination URL! Retain query strings across redirects Super-fast redirection 404 error log 404 error log widget Import/Export feature for bulk redirects management Simple redirect stats so you know how much a redirection is used Fully compatible with translation plugins (Weglot, TranslatePress, Gtranslate, Loco Translate) that use lang prefix in URL Need more features? WP 301 Redirects PRO offers wildcard & regular expression URL matching, auto-typo fixing in URLs, complete redirect and 404 log, link scanner, and a centralized SaaS dashboard to monitor redirects on all your sites from one place. What is a 301 Redirect? A redirect is a simple way to re-route traffic coming to a Requested URL to different Destination URL. A 301 redirect indicates that the page requested has been permanently moved to the Destination URL, and helps pass on the Requested URLs traffic in a search engine friendly manner. Creating a 301 redirect tells search engines that the Requested URL has moved permanently, and that the content can now be found on the Destination URL. An important feature is that search engines will pass along any clout the Requested URL used to have to the Destination URL. When Should I use 301 Redirects? * Replacing an old site design with a new site design * Overhauling or re-organizing your existing WordPress content * You have content that expires (or is otherwise no longer available) and you wish to redirect users elsewhere Is the 404 error log GDPR friendly? The 404 error log does not collect user IPs. It collects the following data: timestamp of the event, the (404) URL that was opened, and the user-agent string. Having problems with SSL? Moving a site from HTTP to HTTPS? Install our free WP Force SSL plugin. It’s a great way to enable SSL and fix SSL problems. External libraries used in the project * PHP User Agent Parser

Pivot QR turns your WordPress site’s domain into a redirect service. Generate short URLs like example.com/ab together with matching QR codes, then change where they redirect to at any time — without ever reprinting the QR. This is especially useful for printed flyers, packaging, business cards, signage, and seasonal campaigns where the printed QR cannot be reissued but the destination URL needs to change. Key features Short URLs at your domain root — e.g. example.com/ab. Adjustable slug length — 2 to 8 characters. Shorter slugs produce sparser QR codes; longer slugs give a larger address space. Edit slugs after creation — rename any short URL after it has been issued. QR downloads — PNG, JPG, and SVG output at any size from 100 to 1000 px. Embed code — copy-ready and HTML snippets for posts and product pages. Scheduled destinations — optional start/end dates and multiple schedules per link, with automatic switchover. Per-device redirects — send iPhone, Android, and PC visitors to different URLs (perfect for App Store / Google Play routing). Built-in analytics — daily breakdown of QR scans vs. direct short-URL clicks, rendered as a chart. Reserved paths — protect existing pages from being accidentally captured. Total click counter — see at a glance how many times each link has been hit. Privacy Pivot QR stores data only in your own WordPress database. It does not phone home, it does not call third-party services, and it does not embed any tracking. Visitor IP addresses, user agents, and referrers from redirect hits are stored locally for analytics; uninstalling the plugin removes everything. Bundled libraries To work on shared hosting (no Composer or PHP image library required), Pivot QR bundles the following permissively licensed libraries inside the plugin folder. Nothing is loaded from external CDNs. Chart.js (MIT) qrcode-generator (MIT) — by Kazuhiko Arase Font Awesome Free (CC BY 4.0 icons, MIT CSS, SIL OFL fonts)