Allows you to change your post slugs without breaking your permalinks.
As of April 2026, Redirect Old Slugs is a WordPress posts plugin with 50 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 9.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.5.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2006. Last updated 19 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Redirect Old Slugs allows you to change your post slugs without breaking your permalinks. People requesting the old link will be redirected to the new link. This all happens automatically.
Note that this functionality was brought into WordPress core for version 2.1, so this plugin is not needed. When you upgrade to WordPress version 2.1 or higher, your old slugs will be kept and will keep on being redirected without the need for this plugin.
| WordPress | 1.5.2+ requiredTested up to 2.0.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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