Linkrail

Description

Linkrail is a fast, lightweight URL redirect and link-repair plugin for WordPress. Built for sites that need real redirect power without the bloat — unlimited redirects, regex and wildcard matching, automatic 404 detection, login URL hiding, and a clean admin UI that stays out of your way.

Why Linkrail?

Most redirect plugins do one thing. Linkrail bundles three things every serious WordPress site actually needs:

1. Redirect Manager — 301, 302, 307, 308, and 410 Gone redirects with exact, prefix, regex, and wildcard matching.
2. Admin URL Security — hide your /wp-login.php behind a custom slug to stop brute-force bots cold.
3. SEO 404 Broken Link Fixer — auto-detects 404s across your site and suggests or auto-creates redirects to recover lost traffic.

All features are 100% free. No license keys, no upsells, no feature gating.

Core Features

• Unlimited redirects (301, 302, 307, 308, 410 Gone)
• Match types: exact, prefix, regex, wildcard
• Hide wp-login behind a custom slug with IP whitelist and emergency recovery URL
• Automatic 404 broken link detection and smart redirect suggestions
• Full visit logs per redirect with hit counters
• CSV import and export
• Clean, native-feeling admin UI
• Translation-ready (text domain: linkrail)
• No external services — everything runs locally

Built for Performance

• Cached lookups via WordPress object cache
• Indexed database tables for sub-millisecond matching
• Runs on template_redirect — no interference with other plugins
• Zero frontend JS, zero frontend CSS

Privacy

Linkrail stores redirect rules, visit hit counts, and 404 log entries in your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent to external servers. Bot user-agents are ignored by default to keep logs clean.