How to Redirect 404 Errors to a New URL in WordPress – Redirection

404 errors and duplicate titles not only hurt the ranking of a website; it can entirely omit your site from search engines as well. Yesterday, I provided a solution to avoid duplicate post titles in WordPress, and you will get the tutorial ” How to Redirect 404 Errors to a New URL in WordPress?”.

Every blogger does not know the coding, and it is challenging for those to handle 404 errors in WordPress. With a redirection plugin, you cannot avoid 404 errors, but you can redirect them to the correct URL, so your site SEO can be maintained.

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website or changing your WordPress installation’s directory.

Features of Redirection Plugin

1. 404 error monitoring – captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to map these to 301 redirects easily
2. Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through another page, file, or website.
3. Full logs for all redirected URLs
4. All URLs can be redirected, not just ones that don’t exist.
5. Redirection methods – redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!
6. Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes.
7. Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post or any other file.
8. Full regular expression support
9. Apache .htaccess is not required – works entirely inside WordPress
10. Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
11. Redirection statistics telling you how many times a redirection has occurred, when it last happened, who tried to do it, and where they found your URL
12. Fully localized

Redirection is a free plugin and works well up to WordPress v4.0. Just install this plugin and whenever you find any broken links on your website, redirect them, and new visitors and search engine robots will be redirected to the new link. Another benefit is that you can not only redirect the 404 URL to your domain, but you can also redirect to other domains.