68
Redirect 404 to Homepage
A lightweight tool that might accidentally break your sitemaps.
Declining
68/100
The plugin is simple and free but lacks settings to prevent it from breaking valid URLs.
Active installs
~75,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.8★
22 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-43%
Declining fast
108 → 62 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 43% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -43% in the last year
108/day a year ago→62/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRedirect 404 to Homepage is well-regarded as a dead-simple, zero-configuration plugin that does exactly what it says, though some users have encountered serious side effects where valid URLs — including XML sitemaps and affiliate links — get incorrectly redirected to the homepage.
What people like
- +Extremely easy to set up — install, activate, and it works immediately with no configuration needed.×5
- +Lightweight with no unnecessary extras or upsells.×2
- +Reliably resolves 404 errors for general use cases.×3
Common complaints
- −Can incorrectly redirect valid, non-404 URLs (e.g. XML sitemaps, affiliate links) to the homepage, breaking them entirely.×2
- −No option to exclude specific URLs from redirection, leaving users with no workaround short of deactivating the plugin.×2
- −Users have requested a custom redirect destination (i.e. redirect to a URL other than the homepage), which is not currently supported.
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 22 total
Latest reviews · 22 analyzed
- 2025-10-10★★★★★Great !DonGiac
- 2025-02-26★★★★★thankssammykrupta
- 2025-01-29★★★★★Fixed a load of old Woocommerce product linksdoublecleanse
- 2025-01-27★★★★★Easy!Dennis
- 2025-01-12★★★★★Thank youtanyaballe
- 2025-01-07★★★★★Helped me stop the botstheleopheard
- 2024-12-03★★★★★Excellentyaykenny
- 2024-11-07★★★★★Easy, no brainerdexdeckers
- 2024-08-10★★★★★404 Done Right!Lawrence Ip
- 2024-08-06★★★★★Perfect!KingFisher
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNNo release history available.
Alternatives to Redirect 404 to Homepage
Top Redirects plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
58
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
55
Prior 7-day baseline
40
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
161
Mean release-day peak (30d)
55
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+5.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
21%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.71
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.77 → 4.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered