The ability to create and maintain redirects on a website is vital for long-term success.
Once your site has a lot of content, you may need to do a content audit. This will require merging or deleting pages which are no longer important. To maintain the traffic from these deleted or merged pages, you’ll need to create URL redirects. Now I understand this isn’t the most exciting part of site building but it’s important to get it right.
The plugin which will handle all of this is perfectly name; Redirect.
The Redirect plugin lets you create and manage redirects using a simple user interface. Just define a source and destination and you’re good to go. You can also track 404 errors, using a sub-plugin, so if you have a page indexed in Google with a broken path then it’ll be logged and a redirect can be easily created.
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