Title: Planet Social Redirector Author: planetsocialmarketing Published: October 17, 2026 Last modified: October 17, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/planet-social-redirector/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3752422) ![](https://ps.w.org/planet-social-redirector/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3752422) # Planet Social Redirector By [planetsocialmarketing](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brodricklacyhudson/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/planet-social-redirector.1.8.4.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/planet-social-redirector/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/planet-social-redirector/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/planet-social-redirector/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/planet-social-redirector/) ## Description 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: 1. 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. 1. 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. ## FAQ ### Where do the imported rules come from? PSM SEO Site Console and the Planet Social Redirector browser extension both export a small JSON file of redirect rules. Paste that JSON into the import box on Tools then Planet Social Redirector. Pasting checks them, it does not write them. Each rule is put through the same door a single fix goes through: an address that is not a page is refused outright, a rule that already exists is refused, a destination that does not answer is held back for you to decide, and a destination that is itself redirected is named as a chain. You get the whole list, you untick what you disagree with, and only then is anything created. Each rule that is created is requested again straight afterwards to prove it lands on a page that works, and each one lands in the change log with its own undo. ### Does this slow down my site? No. Redirects are checked against a stored option array early in the request, and the 404 log is capped so it never grows without bound. ### How does it know which page a 404 was meant to be? It compares the words in the missing address with the addresses of your published pages and posts. Word order, singular and plural, a file ending such as .html, and a one letter typo are all allowed for, so /vocabulary/redirect-301 finds /vocabulary/ 301-redirect/. When nothing is close it says so instead of guessing, and a link whose address is an unfilled placeholder is called out as a link to fix, not a page to redirect. ### Does anything leave my site? No. The suggestions are worked out on your server from your own pages, and the AI brief is text on the tools page that you copy yourself. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Planet Social Redirector” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ planetsocialmarketing ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brodricklacyhudson/) [Translate “Planet Social Redirector” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/planet-social-redirector) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/planet-social-redirector/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/planet-social-redirector/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/planet-social-redirector/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/planet-social-redirector/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.8.4 * The directory description now leads with what this plugin does differently: it checks a destination before writing a rule, proves each fix straight afterwards, and keeps a change log you can undo from. The plugin itself is unchanged apart from its version number. #### 1.8.3 * The plugin is named Planet Social Redirector again, so its WordPress.org address matches the folder it has always installed into and nothing on your site has to move. * The console this plugin pairs with is called by its WordPress.org name, PSM SEO Site Console, everywhere it is mentioned, and the link on the tools page opens its directory listing. * The moved page catcher switch has its own Save button instead of saving the moment it is ticked. * The External services section now says exactly when the plugin checks an address: when you create, import, verify or undo a fix. It used to say a logged 404 was checked too, which it never was. * The full release history moved to changelog.txt, which comes with the plugin, because WordPress.org shows only the first 5,000 characters of this changelog. #### 1.8.2 * The plugin header now declares Requires at least: 6.0 and Requires PHP: 7.4, the same as this readme, so WordPress will not activate the plugin where it cannot run. #### 1.8.1 * Renamed to “Planet Social Redirector: 404 Log and Redirects” so it is not mistaken for the browser extension of the same family. The extension finds broken pages as you browse; this fixes them at the source, for every visitor and every search engine. Nothing else changed: same settings, same rules, same log. * Redirect destinations on a private network are refused. Pointing a rule at an address like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.5 or a cloud metadata endpoint used to make your server fetch it and report back. Addresses that do not resolve are refused too. Your own site is always allowed, so checking your own pages still works on a local install. * The requests this plugin makes now identify themselves with the real version number. They had said 1.4 since 1.4. * The readme now declares every outbound request the plugin makes and when. #### 1.8.0 * A broken address Google has in its index now outranks one nobody has ever asked for, and says which of the two it is. Google goes on offering an indexed address until it is fixed or removed, which is a different and worse problem than a dead link nobody follows. Needs the PSM SEO Site Console plugin connected to Search Console; without it nothing changes. #### 1.7.0 * The queue can see what Google sees. With the PSM SEO Site Console plugin connected to Search Console, a broken address that Google showed to people in the last 28 days rises to the top, and the number of times is printed as the reason. Until now severity could only see this site: how many pages link to a break and how often it was hit, which is real evidence and says nothing about whether anybody outside was looking. * Impressions raise a finding and never lower one, and with no Search Console connected nothing changes. #### 1.6.0 * Fixes can arrive from PSM SEO Site Console without anyone copying JSON between two screens. What arrives is a plan, never a change: the rules are checked the same way a pasted export is checked, they wait in wp-admin under Tools then Planet Social Redirector, and nothing is written until you press Apply. A call from the console can ask this site for a redirect and cannot create one, which stays true however that call was authenticated. * A plan that arrived is checked again when you open it, against your site as it is then, because a week can pass between sending and reading. #### 1.5.1 * Housekeeping from the official Plugin Check: the readme now states the current WordPress version, and the one direct database call, the uninstall sweep that clears per user transients, carries its justification where the checker can see it. Nothing you use changes. Earlier releases, back to the first, are in changelog.txt, which comes with the plugin. ## Meta * Version **1.8.4** * Last updated **2 days ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/planet-social-redirector/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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