Simple Website Redirect
A simple plugin designed to redirect an entire website (except the WordPress backend) to another website.
4.6(21 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Simple Website Redirect is a WordPress forward plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 160K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin.
4.6/521 reviews
6.0K+active installs
160K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
The Simple Website Redirect plugin allows to you redirect an entire website (except the WordPress backend) to another website.
The URL path and query string is preserved when redirecting to the new site. Ideally, the new site would handle any one-off redirects where a URL for an old page should point to a new page. The Redirection plugin is great for this purpose.
Find out more about website redirects for SEO.
Usage Instructions
Using this plugin is simple:
- Install the plugin
- Activate the plugin
- Go to ‘Settings’ in the WordPress admin menu and then click on ‘Website Redirect’.
- Enter the URL you want to redirect the site to, set the desired redirection type, set the status to ‘Enabled’ and save your changes!
Note: Redirection type can either be ‘…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Simple and effective
by apuliabikeroute·3 years ago
Just need a plugin just to redirect the old links to the new domain. Needed 5 mins to do all and works fine
Perfect
by blunoa·3 years ago
Work perfectly is easy to set up and is the best tool if you need to redirect the whole website.
Works Perfectly!
by YaegerDesign·3 years ago·1 reply
This was a really simple option to change domains of a website while waiting on DNS updates and domain transfers!
Excellent plugin
by soulcommerce·4 years ago
Simple, easy to use and ready to go! Congrats!
Blocks WP-CLI
by tkaprol·4 years ago·1 reply
I’m running the plugin in a multisite deployment. Currently main site redirected into another using the plugin.
However, we can not run any wp-cli command while plugin enabled.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by tkaprol.
Download Trends
Today: 31Yesterday: 38This week: 232Period total: 14K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
65.3%
v1.2
34.4%
v1.0
0.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.2
- Add wp-cron.php to the exclude path.
Contributors
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