Robert Chapin

As of WordPress 3.0, most of this plugin’s original features have been incorporated into WordPress itself. WordPress adds shortlinks to most pages by default. This plugin simply adds a settings page where you can easily make some minor adjustments.
WordPress shortlinks are useful for micro-blogging, by using your own domain instead of a 3rd-party short URL service.
The URLs are automatically added to the HTTP and HTML headers of each post, page, attachment, and category.
A template tag enables you to display a human-readable link in addition to the automatically generated headers. Use of human-readable links is highly encouraged, because Google is known to favor them and rank them higher than some longer URLs. This has the effect of boosting the rank of URLs that were deemed “too long” by Google’s standards. Also, in many mobile web browsers, the easiest way for a visitor to find a short link is by seeing it somewhere on the page.
The template tag idea can be extended further with CSS code for print media, which could ensure that each article’s short link URL is printed along with the article. This will make it much easier for the user to return to the article after reading a hard copy.
<h3>Theme</h3>
Current documentation should be found at <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_shortlink" rel="nofollow ugc">Function Reference/the shortlink</a>
Here is a basic reference for the template functions provided by Simple Short Links. WordPress 3.0+ users, see also wp-includes/link-template.php for more details about the_shortlink().
<pre><code>/**
 * Template Tag for Displaying the Short Link
 *
 * Must be called from inside "The Loop"
 *
 * Call like <?php the_shortlink(__('Shortlinkage FTW')); ?>
 *
 * @since 1.1
 * @param string $text Optional The link text or HTML to be displayed. Defaults to 'This is the short link.'
 * @param string $title Optional The tooltip for the link. Must be sanitized. Defaults to the sanitized post title.
 */
function the_shortlink($text = '', $title = '');
</code></pre>
A second, similar tag is now available in case you need to display a self-referring short link on a category page.
<pre><code>/**
 * Template Tag for Displaying the Short Link for a Category
 *
 * Should be called from outside "The Loop"
 *
 * Call like <? the_single_shortlink(__('Shortlinkage FTW')); ?>
 *
 * @since 1.3
 * @param string $text Optional The link text or HTML to be displayed. Defaults to 'This is the short link.'
 * @param string $title Optional The tooltip for the link. Must be sanitized. Defaults to the sanitized category name.
 */
function the_single_shortlink($text = '', $title = '');
</code></pre>
<h4>The CSS Printing Trick</h4>
Try adding something like this to your theme’s CSS file to make the URL for the short link appear when printed.
<pre><code>@media print {
 .shortlink a:link:after {
 content: " " attr(href);
 }
}
</code></pre>
The CSS example assumes the_shortlink() is used inside of a DIV or P element with a class attribute called “shortlink”.

Simple Short Links

Adjust the WordPress shortlinks format with an extra settings page.

M Asif Rahman

Rupok

WPDeveloper

Scott Nelle

<h4>Improve Your Website User Experience With Simple 301 Redirects Solution for WordPress</h4>
Launching a marketing campaign with a new URL? Got “404 not found” errors? Or relaunching your website with a new URL? Let’s redirect your old URLs to new ones automatically by creating 301 redirects to existing pages.
Simple 301 Redirects provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web. It’s especially handy when you migrate a site to WordPress and can’t preserve your URL structure.
By setting up 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages, any incoming links will be seamlessly passed along, and their page rank (or what-have-you) will be passed along with them.
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<h3>🔰 MANAGE YOUR LINKS WITH SIMPLE 301 REDIRECTS:</h3>
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<ul>
<li>Request: /old-folder/*</li>
<li>Destination: /new-folder/*</li>
</ul>
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The solution also allows you to monitor campaigns using a UTM builder, manage user roles, and analyze click-through rates. Additionally, you can create links without needing admin access and track analytics effortlessly, ensuring your marketing efforts are successful without any hassle.
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<h3>👨‍💻 DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT</h3>
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Simple 301 Redirects By BetterLinks – Easy Redirect Manager for WP, 404 Error Log & More

I had this plugin on all my sites, but since BetterLinks bought it, it became a piece of bloated junk.

Worst update ever

Simple 301 Redirects has provided me a lot of value in the past. Thankful for all the years. But...

Now it is just a Marketing Tool for BetterLinks by WPDeveloper. I can't blame @scottnelle and WPDeveloper for the sale (or whatever transaction happened) but the plugin is bloated with promotion for Betterlinks and worse, does not work out of the box anymore while the "Redirection" plugin does. So will have to migrate dozens of websites to an alternative. :-s

Ruined (after the WPDeveloper acquisition ~ 4 months ago)

This plugin was so easy to use. So many sites used it. However, don't use it for years and think it is going to be easy to remove all the redirects. If you have a large site with history, this could become a nightmare to deal with. Just delete the plugin, move on to another plugin that works. This one sucks!

Don't use this Plugin if you value your site

All redirects randomly stopped working after being fine for many years. Now the redirected paths just return 404. 🤷

Redirects stopped working


This plugin used to be simple, just doing av simple redirecting task. It know has gotten issues cluttering the log file when debugging. Support recommends another, totally bloated plugin. I recommend staying away and find antoher simple redirects mananger. Sad.


No longer maintained

Simple 301 Redirects provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web.

Simple Short Links vs Simple 301 Redirects By BetterLinks – Easy Redirect Manager for WP, 404 Error Log & More