Redirection vs WhereUsed

Redirection is the most popular redirect manager for WordPress. With it you can easily manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This can help reduce errors and improve your site ranking. Redirection is designed to be used on sites with a few redirects to sites with thousands of redirects. It has been a WordPress plugin for over 10 years and has been recommended countless times. And it’s free! Full documentation can be found at https://redirection.me Redirection is compatible with PHP from 7.4 to 8.5. Redirect manager Create and manage redirects quickly and easily without needing Apache or Nginx knowledge. If your WordPress supports permalinks then you can use Redirection to redirect any URL. There is full support for regular expressions so you can create redirect patterns to match any number of URLs. You can match query parameters and even pass them through to the target URL. The plugin can also be configured to monitor when post or page permalinks are changed and automatically create a redirect to the new URL. Conditional redirects In addition to straightforward URL matching you can redirect based on other conditions: Login status – redirect only if the user is logged in or logged out WordPress capability – redirect if the user is able to perform a certain capability Browser – redirect if the user is using a certain browser Referrer – redirect if the user visited the link from another page Cookies – redirect if a particular cookie is set HTTP headers – redirect based on a HTTP header Custom filter – redirect based on your own WordPress filter IP address – redirect if the client IP address matches Server – redirect another domain if also hosted on this server Page type – redirect if the current page is a 404 Full logging A configurable logging option allows to view all redirects occurring on your site, including information about the visitor, the browser used, and the referrer. A ‘hit’ count is maintained for each redirect so you can see if a URL is being used. Logs can be exported for external viewing, and can be searched and filtered for more detailed investigation. Display geographic information about an IP address, as well as a full user agent information, to try and understand who the visitor is. You are able to disable or reduce IP collection to meet the legal requirements of your geographic region, and can change the amount of information captured from the bare minimum to HTTP headers. You can also log any redirect happening on your site, including those performed outside of Redirection. Add HTTP headers HTTP headers can be added to redirects or your entire site that help reduce the impact of redirects or help increase security. You can also add your own custom headers. Track 404 errors Redirection will keep track of all 404 errors that occur on your site, allowing you to track down and fix problems. Errors can be grouped to show where you should focus your attention, and can be redirected in bulk. Query parameter handling You can match query parameters exactly, ignore them, and even pass them through to your target. Migrate Permalinks Changed your permalink structure? You can migrate old permalinks simply by entering the old permalink structure. Multiple migrations are supported. Apache & Nginx support By default Redirection will manage all redirects using WordPress. However you can configure it so redirects are automatically saved to a .htaccess file and handled by Apache itself. If you use Nginx then you can export redirects to an Nginx rewrite rules file. Fine-grained permissions Fine-grained permissions are available so you can customise the plugin for different users. This makes it particularly suitable for client sites where you may want to prevent certain actions, and remove functionality. Import & Export The plugin has a fully-featured import and export system and you can: Import and export to Apache .htaccess Export to Nginx rewrite rules Copy redirects between sites using JSON Import and export to CSV for viewing in a spreadsheet Use WP CLI to automate import and export You can also import from the following plugins: Simple 301 Redirects SEO Redirection Safe Redirect Manager Rank Math WordPress old slug redirects Quick Post/Pages redirects Search Regex compatible Redirection is compatible with Search Regex, allowing you to bulk update your redirects. Wait, it’s free? Yes, it’s really free. There’s no premium version and no need to pay money to get access to features. This is a dedicated redirect management plugin. Support Please submit bugs, patches, and feature requests to: https://github.com/johngodley/redirection Please submit translations to: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redirection

Where used? This plugin helps you find usage of attachments, posts, links, blocks and more in all post types, taxonomy terms, post meta, user meta, and menus. This plugin is multisite compatible! Items That Will Be Detected images, attachments links Gutenberg custom blocks or reusable blocks iframes Shortcodes (coming soon) Areas Where It Searches For The Items posts, post meta (even custom post types) taxonomy terms, term meta users, user meta WordPress menus Redirection rules (if Redirection plugin is installed) Discover Problems Broken links ( 404 errors hurt SEO ranking) Redirects referenced (301, 302 etc.) Unused reusable blocks Prevent You From Causing Problems Know where something is referenced before you delete it and create broken links or broken functionality on your site Find where a reusable block is used before you delete the reusable block Find out where blocks are used before you uninstall a plugin that has custom blocks Know when the slug of your page has been accidentally redirected due to regex matching via Redirection plugin IMPORTANT: This Plugin DOES NOT Does not search theme’s code or any plugin’s code for hardcoded references Does not detect references or backlinks located on websites beyond the scope of your WordPress install. Does not search custom database tables WARNING: Does not find every existence of usage due to mentioned lines above and possibly some unforeseen scenarios. Please always be cautious when deleting posts and attachments. This plugin does it’s best to help you be more confident in deleting unused content and maintaining existing content. Compatible With Multisite Installations Bedrock Fix Alt Text Redirection Advanced Custom Fields – ACF Network Media Library Recommended Plugins To Install Redirection – WhereUsed is more powerful as a tool with the Redirection plugin. Certain features of WhereUsed are not available unless Redirection is installed. Fix Alt Text – Like WhereUsed? You’ll love our other plugin, Fix Alt Text, which will help you manage your image alt text easier for better website SEO and accessibility. Quick Setup Guides Single Site Setup Install the WhereUsed plugin per instructions above and then activate it. Modify settings as need to ensure your entire site gets scanned properly. Adjust settings here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed > Settings Do an initial full scan on the bottom right of the Dashboard here: Admin > Tools > WhereUsed Once the scan is complete, you can review the Dashboard to discover detected broken links and redirects. Multisite Setup Install the WhereUsed plugin per the instructions above and activate the plugin for the entire network or go to each site individually in the network and activate the plugin. All sites will default to using the network settings (for convenience). This can be disabled on a per site basis in the network settings area. WP Admin > Network Settings > Settings > WhereUsed Each site will need to be scanned so that all references are detected Multiple scans (full scan on each site) are prevented from running simultaneously to protect the server from getting too overwhelmed at one time. Once all scans have been run, you will be able to see all references on each site and all references between each site.