About this plugin
Shortcode Redirect sends visitors from any post or page to another URL. No settings screens, no database tables — just drop it in where you need it.
There are two ways to use it, and both produce the exact same front-end output.
1. 0)
In the block editor, add the Redirect block from the Widgets category. The block sidebar exposes three simple fields:
- Destination URL — where the visitor should end up
- Seconds to wait — how long to pause before redirecting ( 0 = immediate)
- Show “redirecting” message — toggle the visible “Please wait…” line on or off
g. com — after 3 seconds · message shown”. No shortcode syntax to memorize.
2. The classic shortcode
Paste into any post or page:
com' sec='3']
Shortcode attributes:
- url — destination URL (required)
- sec — seconds to wait before redirecting (optional, default 0 )
- show_message — set to false, 0, no, or off to hide the “redirecting” message (optional, default true, new in 1.1.0)
Example with all three:
com' sec='5' show_message='false']
Same output either way
Block or shortcode, the front-end renders the same single <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag (plus the optional one-line message). No JavaScript. No server-side redirect.
No third-party tracking. Existing [redirect] shortcodes from earlier versions continue to work unchanged.
Features
- Block editor support — native “Redirect” block (new in 1.1.0)
- Classic shortcode — [redirect] works exactly like it always has
- Optional delay — choose how many seconds to wait before redirecting
- Silent mode — hide the “redirecting…” message for a clean, blank-page redirect (new in 1.1.0)
- Lightweight — a single PHP file plus a small block; no settings, no tables, no dependencies
- Backwards compatible — upgrading from 1.0.x is drop-in