About this plugin
Planet Social Redirector fixes broken pages at the server, so every visitor and every search engine gets the redirect, not just one browser. And it checks before it writes: every destination is asked what it answers first, every fix is proved straight afterwards, and every change can be undone.
- Checks before it writes. A redirect into another broken page is worse than the broken page it replaces, so the destination is requested before a rule is created. If it does not answer, nothing is written and the reason is shown, with Apply anyway for a page you know is about to exist.
- Proves every fix. Straight after a rule is written, the old address is requested again to confirm it redirects and lands on a page that works. The answer is recorded, not assumed.
- A change log you can undo from. What changed, who changed it, why, and what the check said. One click puts any change back, and the undo is recorded as its own entry.
- Worst first, from evidence. Every logged 404 gets a severity with its reasons shown: how many requests landed on it, whether one of your own pages links to it, and whether a destination is ready. With PSM SEO Site Console connected to Search Console, an address Google showed to people in the last 28 days rises to the top.
- Likely meant. Each 404 names the published page it was most likely meant to be, allowing for word order, plurals, file endings and one letter typos. When nothing is close it says so instead of guessing.
- Never redirects what software reads. Search engine verification files,.well-known, robots.txt, sitemaps, service workers, app manifests and app association files are listed separately and can never be redirected, because a 301 there breaks something instead of fixing it. Scanner probes are named as what they are.
- Moved page catcher. When a published page changes its address, the 301 is created for you, and rules that pointed at the old address are re aimed so chains never form.
- Imports are previews. Rules exported by PSM SEO Site Console or the Planet Social Redirector browser extension are checked one by one and shown before any of them is written.
- Real 301 redirects run before the page renders. WordPress system addresses (login, admin, the REST API, feeds) are never logged, any path can be ignored, and a ready brief for an AI assistant is written from your own 404 log.
The companion browser extension patches pages in a single browser for quick testing. This plugin makes the fix structural for everyone.
External services
This plugin contacts no third party service of its own. It has no account, no
API key, and it sends nothing to Planet Social Marketing.
It does make requests to addresses you choose, and only when you ask it to:
- Checking a page on your own site.
When you create, import, verify or undo a fix, the plugin asks your own site
for the addresses involved and reads the status code each one answers with.
This is your server talking to itself.
- Checking a redirect destination you entered.
If you point a rule at an address somewhere else, the plugin asks that address
what it answers before it will write the rule, so you do not send visitors
somewhere broken. Only the status code and, if it redirects, where it points,
are read. No page content is stored.
These requests are made only by an administrator pressing a control, never by a
visitor and never on a schedule. Addresses on private networks are refused, and
so is any host that does not resolve.