Expose the hidden "old slugs" WordPress stores and automatically redirects for your Posts, Pages, and all Public Custom Post Types.
As of April 2026, Slug Trace is a WordPress seo plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 63 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
Did you know that every time you change a URL (slug), WordPress remembers the old one? It stores these in your database and automatically performs a 301 redirect to the new URL.
However, WordPress core has two major flaws:
1. It provides no way to see this history in the admin dashboard.
2. It often fails to record history for hierarchical Pages and certain Custom Post Types.
Slug Trace bridges this gap. It provides a simple, elegant interface to see every previous URL a post, page, or product has ever had. It also includes a “Universal Tracker” that forces WordPress to remember slug changes for Pages and Custom Post Types that are usually ignored by core.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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