Title: Automatic Redirection
Last modified: December 30, 2025

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# Automatic Redirection

 *  Resolved [atolmaprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atolmaprod/)
 * (@atolmaprod)
 * [3 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-6/)
 * We appear to be getting a series of automatic redirects and aren’t sure how. 
   I don’t see anything in the settings that would cause this as most are unwanted
   and were unauthorized to the point that some of the actual pages don’t work anymore.
 * For example, a blog post has /robots.txt redirected to the actual blog post. 
   We also have .png images that aren’t hosted on the server, being redirected to
   the homepage. I checked with the hosting company and we are free of malware.
 * We don’t want to deactivate the plugin completely at this point because we have
   important redirects needed, but are struggling to troubleshoot.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-6/#post-18770533)
 * The URL monitoring settings on the options page control any automatic redirects
   the plugin creates. Outside of that, the plugin does not create anything automatically
   and it will be created by another person or entity.
 * > We also have .png images that aren’t hosted on the server, being redirected
   > to the homepage
 * I don’t know how that would be possible?
 *  Thread Starter [atolmaprod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atolmaprod/)
 * (@atolmaprod)
 * [3 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-6/#post-18770593)
 *  thanks! I unselected URL monitoring, so I presume we will not see this issue
   any further?
 *  the odd thing is that it was creating redirects for things we didn’t even change.
   That includes any fake file additions.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [3 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-6/#post-18770602)
 * > I presume we will not see this issue any further
 * Without knowing if this setting was responsible then I cannot say.
 * > the odd thing is that it was creating redirects for things we didn’t even change.
   > That includes any fake file additions.
 * The plugin cannot do this, and I don’t understand what you mean about fake files–
   you would need to provide specific details.

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 * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Last activity: [3 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-6/#post-18770602)
 * Status: resolved