Description
Exact redirects. No database. No tracking. No bloat.
Sobi Redirects keeps a short list of exact paths and sends each one to a page, another path, or a full URL. You add the addresses you care about. Search Console already records the rest.
- One JSON file — rules live in
uploads/sobi-redirects/rules.json. There is no database table, and the front end never queries MySQL. - A miss changes nothing — if no rule matches, WordPress continues. No query, no log line, no extra header.
- Exact and predictable — a path matches that path. A path with parameters matches those parameters only, in any order. The target is sent as you wrote it.
- No logs, no stats, no tracking — no 404 log and no hit counter. Requests for
/xmlrpc.phpor/.envare not stored. - A small screen — one list under Tools Sobi Redirects. Add, edit, enable, disable, delete.
- CSV import and export — columns
source,target,code,enabled. Import adds rows and leaves existing sources as they are.
A match is redirected before WordPress runs the main query. The code is 301 or 302. One hop per request. A chain is fine across later requests. A loop is refused when you save.
Sobi Redirects is built by the makers of Sobi Forms, a lightweight contact form plugin.
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/sobi-redirects/, or install the zip from the Plugins screen. - Activate Sobi Redirects. The redirects screen opens.
- Add a source path and a target. The screen also lives under Tools Sobi Redirects.
FAQ
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Does this log 404s?
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No. The plugin only redirects paths you add. Search Console already records missing URLs, and requests for
/xmlrpc.phpor/.envare not stored here. -
Does it count visits?
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No. There is no hit counter and no statistics screen.
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Does the front end query the database?
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No. Redirects are read from
uploads/sobi-redirects/rules.json. A request that matches nothing is left unchanged. -
What does an exact match mean?
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A source without a query matches that path, whatever parameters the visitor added, and those parameters stay off the target. A source with a query matches only when the parameters are the same, in any order.
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Can I use wildcards, regex, or conditions?
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No. Rules are exact paths. There are no regular expressions, groups, roles, referrers, or geo rules.
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Can I point a redirect at a page?
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Yes. On the source, picking a page copies its path. On the target, the page stays linked: a permalink change updates the target when the page is saved, and a deleted page leaves the last URL in place with a warning.
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What does uninstall remove?
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Uninstall deletes
uploads/sobi-redirects/, including the JSON file, and leaves nothing in MySQL. Deactivating the plugin deletes nothing. -
Can someone download the redirects file?
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The file is
uploads/sobi-redirects/rules.json, and it holds paths and display names, not passwords. Directory listing is blocked; on Nginx a direct request can still succeed, so deny that folder in the server configuration if you want it closed.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First release. Exact-match redirects, CSV import and export, and a flat-file lookup.