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Safe Redirect Manager
The minimalist way to point your URLs where they belong.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
It provides reliable regex and wildcard support for users who want simplicity without bloat.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.7★
78 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
116 → 135 installs/day
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
Growing · +16% in the last year
116/day a year ago→135/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySafe Redirect Manager is a well-regarded, lightweight redirect plugin appreciated for its simplicity and wildcard/regex support, though a small number of users report it failing to work in certain environments or with specific plugins like WPML.
What people like
- +Reliable and straightforward — works as expected without configuration headaches×6
- +Wildcard and regex support praised as a powerful built-in feature×3
- +Good fit for users unfamiliar with .htaccess redirects
- +Useful for post-migration redirect management (e.g., static HTML to WordPress)
- +Long-term reliability reported across multiple sites over many years
Common complaints
- −Does not work for some users — plugin menu or settings page fails to appear×2
- −Incompatible with WPML — does not handle sub-language URLs
- −Conflict warning with All In One SEO can cause the plugin to be non-functional even when the conflicting feature is disabled
- −Difficulty removing redirects once created, requiring support intervention
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 78 total
Latest reviews · 78 analyzed
- 2024-10-30★★★★★Awesome PluginSkrlance
- 2024-03-07★★★★★Instalación irreversibleEnrachas
- 2024-01-05★★★★★Very good pluginwebmasterscr
- 2024-01-02★★★★★Não funcionareginaldoornellas
- 2023-12-08★★★★★Not working with WPMLscanbike
- 2022-05-09★★★★★it's Free But it support wild cardyourfather
- 2021-09-18★★★★★Easy fast to setup full site redirection to new URLronans
- 2020-08-10★★★★★Simple to use, redirect managementDavid Artiss
- 2020-04-27★★★★★Works fineargosmedia
- 2020-01-29★★★★★just works simpledirkmat1971
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Safe Redirect Manager
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.
267
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
211
Prior 7-day baseline
402
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,385
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,152
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+26.5%
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.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.77
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.65 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered