# Redirection review (2026): is it any good? > Free WordPress plugin for managing 301 redirects and 404 errors Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Redirection is a free WordPress plugin for creating and managing redirects and tracking 404 errors, with no paid edition. Redirects can use regular expressions and conditions such as login status, browser, referrer, cookies or IP address, and it can create redirects automatically when a post's permalink changes. Redirects can also be written to an Apache .htaccess file or exported as Nginx rules. - **Category:** SEO Plugins & Apps - **Made by:** John Godley - **Website:** https://redirection.me - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Too light for your whole SEO setup, as titles, sitemaps and schema need another plugin. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Redirection is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Everything is free: there is no premium version. Redirects, 404 tracking, logs, conditional rules, import and export, and the REST API and WP-CLI access. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | The whole plugin from WordPress.org, with no paid features. | Read from https://redirection.me/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Redirection before buying. ## Key features - **Redirect manager:** Create redirects for any URL without editing Apache or Nginx, with regular expressions, query parameter matching and automatic redirects when permalinks change. - **Conditional redirects:** Redirect only for logged-in or logged-out users, a WordPress capability, browser, referrer, cookie, HTTP header, IP address, server or 404 pages. - **404 tracking:** Logs every 404 error on the site, groups them to show where to focus, and lets them be redirected in bulk. - **Redirect logs:** Records each redirect with visitor, browser and referrer details and a hit count, with search, filters, export and controls to limit IP collection. - **Apache and Nginx output:** Redirects can be saved to .htaccess so Apache handles them, or exported as Nginx rewrite rules. - **Import, export and APIs:** Imports from other redirect plugins and .htaccess, exports to CSV, JSON and Nginx, and can be run through the WordPress REST API, PHP hooks and WP-CLI. ## Good for - Site moves and URL restructures with many redirects to set up - Finding and fixing 404 errors on a WordPress site - Client sites that need fine-grained permissions on who can change redirects ## Worth knowing - It runs only inside WordPress; there is no standalone app. - It manages redirects and 404s only; titles, sitemaps and schema need a separate SEO plugin. - The current version supports WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Redirection manages redirects and logs 404 errors in WordPress, with regex, conditional rules and Apache or Nginx output, and it costs nothing. It only does redirects, though: titles, sitemaps and schema still need a separate SEO plugin, and the current version needs WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4 or later. - **Value for money: A.** Free, with no paid edition: the whole plugin, its logs, conditional rules, imports and exports, REST API and WP-CLI access come from WordPress.org at no cost. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Everything is free and there's no premium version, so there's no cap or locked feature to run into. - **Features: C.** Redirects with regex and conditions, automatic redirects when permalinks change, 404 logs, redirect logs and Apache or Nginx output. It does redirects fully, but that's a smaller job: no titles, sitemaps or schema. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. A simple redirect is quick, but regex, conditions and server rules take some learning, and you build every redirect yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, inside WordPress, with a REST API, PHP hooks and WP-CLI. It writes to Apache .htaccess, exports Nginx rules and imports from other redirect plugins. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Redirection's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SEO plugins and apps - Redirection's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 67 of the 78 other SEO plugins and apps we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 63 of 78) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Redirection has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-plugins ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Redirection is free, so making your own would save you nothing. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 67 of the 78 other SEO plugins and apps we grade. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Apache, Nginx and WP-CLI among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Apache, Nginx, WP-CLI, Simple 301 Redirects, Safe Redirect Manager, Search Regex **Tags:** Open source, Public API ## Alternatives - [Yoast SEO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/yoast-seo): WordPress SEO plugin with content analysis, schema and sitemaps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/redirection-vs-yoast-seo) - [All in One SEO (AIOSEO)](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aioseo): WordPress SEO plugin with schema, redirects, link suggestions and AI. 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