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WP Simple Redirect

Create short links and redirect in your WordPress dashboard, both simple links as well as regular expression matching.

By Arevico·Pages·Free
5(1 reviews)
·40 active installs·Updated 9 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP Simple Redirect is a WordPress pages plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP-PageNavi.

5/51 reviews
40active installs
6.0K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

Create short links and redirect in your WordPress dashboard, both simple links as well as regular expression matching.

Features:

  1. Fast and efficient (doesn’t use rewrite rules)
  2. Simple and easy
  3. Global Variables: Add variables such as Affiliate ID, IP Address to the redirected link.
  4. Custom Variables: You can also define your own variables to add.
  5. Global Prefix: prefix a string like /go/ before all links. This will make sure the database is not queried unnecesarily

Link Matching Options

  1. Starts with: match the url if it start with a pattern
  2. Contains: match the url if it contains a pattern
  3. Regular Expressions: you can capture a portion of the url and reuse it in the redirect ‘fore example example.com/watch/(.*)’
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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
5 ★
1
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
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1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

The initial release.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

ArevicoArevico
Plugin Info
Version
1.1
Last Updated
Aug 15, 2016
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.6.30
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
40
Downloads
6.0K+
Added
Jul 29, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

pagesmanagepermalinkshort linksimple redirect

Developer

A
Arevico
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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