Konrad Chmielewski

<p>Welcome to WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post!</p>
<p>This plugin automatically redirect 404 pages to similar posts based on Title, Post Types & Taxonomies. If nothing similar is found, visitors will be redirected to the homepage or a custom URL.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically detect any 404.</li>
<li>Automatically search a similar post based on multiple factors:
<ul>
<li>Title</li>
<li>Potential Post Type</li>
<li>Potential Taxonomy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>If nothing similar is found, set your Fallback Behavior:
<ul>
<li>Redirect to homepage</li>
<li>Redirect to a custom URL</li>
<li>Display the default 404 page</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Choose the redirection HTTP header status:
<ul>
<li>301 headers</li>
<li>302 headers</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Exclude Post Types from possible redirections.</li>
<li>Exclude Taxonomies from possible redirections.</li>
<li>Exclude Posts based on a custom post meta.</li>
<li>Exclude Terms based on a custom term meta.</li>
<li>Display the Debug Console instead of being redirected (Admin).</li>
<li>Preview possible redirection from the administration panel.</li>
</ul>
<h4>*New* Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Expose ‘WP-404-Auto-Redirect’ headers on 404 pages. (Admin).</li>
<li>Log redirections in the /wp-content/debug.log file.</li>
<li>Create your own search engines logic.</li>
<li>Create your own search engines groups & fire sequence.</li>
</ul>
<h4>*New* Engines & Groups:</h4>
<p>WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post 1.0 introduces the concept of engines and groups which let you customize your own searching & matching logic. The plugin comes with 5 engines and 1 default group out of the box!</p>
<p>Default Group Engines:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Fix URL<br />
Find and fix common URL mistakes.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Direct Match<br />
Search for a Post that perfectly match keywords.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Search Post<br />
Search for a similar Post.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Search Term<br />
Search for a similar Term.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Search Post: Fallback<br />
If a Post Type is set in the WP Query, redirect to the Post Type Archive.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>But Also:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy to Install / Uninstall.</li>
<li>No useless data saved in Database.</li>
<li>Blazing Fast Performance.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility:</h4>
<p>WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post is 100% compatible with all popular manual redirection plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/" rel="ugc">Redirection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/" rel="ugc">Simple 301 Redirects</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/" rel="ugc">RankMath Redirections</a></li>
<li><a href="https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/redirects-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yoast Redirections</a></li>
<li>etc…</li>
</ul>
<p>If you use one of them, but missed a manual redirection and a 404 is about to be displayed, WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post will cover you.</p>
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<p>They talk about us! 🙂</p>
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WP 404 Auto Redirect to Similar Post

This is, THE MOST "must have" plugin I've ever found.

a must plugin

Automatically Redirect any 404 page to a Similar Post based on the Title Post Type & Taxonomy using 301 or 302 Redirects!

cfischer83

<p>Does your website utilize categories and tags? Does it use custom taxonomies? If so, this plugin will find similar content<br />
based on all your taxonomies. There are two ways to show related posts within your page.</p>
<ul>
<li>The first way to show related content on your post is to use the widget provided. This only works when is_single() is true</li>
<li>The second way to show similar content on your site is to use the pk_related_return($post->ID); function which can be<br />
called programmatically anywhere you wish!</li>
</ul>
<p>The Widget included with this plugin gives you the option to limit the amount of posts; it allows you to determine which<br />
fields to show: Featured Image, Author, Date, and Excerpt (Title is required);  it allows you to determine which<br />
variant of the featured image to show: thumbnail, medium, large, or full. As of version 2.0, you can now decide whether the<br />
‘similar posts’ sorting prefers posts that are newer or posts that were created closer to the date of the post you’re<br />
viewing.</p>
<p>If you find the Widget doesn’t meet your needs or is too limiting, you can call the functionality programmatically using<br />
this function:</p>
<pre><code>pk_related_return($post->ID, $args);
</code></pre>
<p>Where $post->ID is the ID of the post for which you are wanting to show related articles.</p>
<p>The $args parameter is an array with the following values available to you (more coming soon):</p>
<ul>
<li>posts_per_page (int defaults to 5)</li>
<li>thumbnail_size (string consisting of one of these values: “thumbnail”, “medium”, “large”, “full”. Defaults to thumbnail).</li>
<li>sort_prefer      (string consisting of one of these values: “newest”, “closest”. Defaults to newest).</li>
</ul>
<p>An example might be:</p>
<pre><code><?php
$args = array (
    'posts_per_page' => 6,
    'thumbnail_size' => 'medium',
    'sort_prefer' => 'closest'
);
</code></pre>
<p>The return value of pk_related_return is an array of objects that includes most of the fields within WordPress’s posts<br />
table plus permalink and featured image.</p>
<p>Future Additions:</p>
<p>Allow the user to specify only certain content types (posts, pages, custom) in a request. This would allow you to specify<br />
only products get returned, or only blog posts. This would only be an issue if content types share taxonomies.</p>


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