CodeBold Redirects user guide.

01 Install and open it

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for CodeBold Redirects, then click Install Now and Activate.
3. Open CodeBold Redirects from the main admin menu.

Tip: a red number on the menu item means new pages were not found since you last looked.

02 Add a redirect

1. Old address — the address that should stop being a dead end, e.g. /old-pricing. You can paste a full link; the plugin keeps only the part after your domain.
2. Send visitors to — start typing a page's name and pick it from the list, or paste any address, even on another site. Picking a page links the redirect to the page itself, so it keeps working if the page moves later.
3. Type — leave it on 301 · Moved for good unless you have a reason not to (see below).
4. Click Add redirect. It works immediately.

You don't need to worry about: trailing slashes, capital letters or ?utm_ tags — /About/, /about and /about?utm_source=x all match the same redirect.

03 More options

Click More options under the form. Three sections open, each remembering whether you left it open, and each saying in one line what is set inside when it's closed.

• Matching — Exact address for one page; Wildcard to move a whole section: /blog/* → /news/* keeps each page's name; Regular expression for experts ($1, $2 carry captured parts across). You can also keep the visitor's query string or make capital letters matter.
• Conditions & schedule — only redirect when something is true: logged in or out, a user role, the device, the browser, the language, where the visitor came from, a cookie, an IP address, the country, or only if the page is genuinely not found. Add a start and end date for sales and seasonal pages.
• Organise — put redirects in a group (e.g. "Site move 2026"), set a priority when two patterns could match the same address, and leave yourself a note.

04 Manage your redirects

• The four figures at the top are shortcuts: click Need attention to see redirects pointing at pages that are no longer published.
• Filters and search — All, On, Off, Automatic, Never used, and by group. Search covers addresses, groups and notes.
• The switch turns a redirect off without deleting it.
• The pencil opens the redirect for editing, right in the list.
• The ⋯ menu — Test, Duplicate as new, Copy old address and Delete. Deleting shows an Undo button, so there's no "are you sure?" to click through.
• Many at once — tick the boxes on the left to turn several on or off, move them to a group, or delete them.

05 Fix pages not found

Every time a visitor asks for a page that doesn't exist, it's listed under Pages not found — most visited first, with where the visitor came from.

• One-click fix — click the green suggestion to redirect the address to that page. Fixed addresses leave the list.
• Redirect… — choose any page yourself. Ignore hides addresses you don't care about; Delete removes the record.
• Filters — Found by people, Linked from somewhere (fix these first: a real link points at them) and Bots and scanners.

Good habit: check this tab once a week. A broken link fixed today is a visitor — and a search ranking — kept.

06 Automatic redirects

You don't have to add most redirects yourself:

• Renamed or moved pages — change a page's or post's address, move it under another page, or change a post's date, and a redirect from the old address is made for you. Pages beneath a moved page are covered too.
• Categories and tags — renaming a category, tag or product category gets the same treatment.
• Moved to the bin — optionally send visitors to the parent page, or answer 410 Gone. Restoring the page removes it again.

Automatic redirects are marked Automatic: address changed in the list, and you can turn each kind on or off in Settings.

07 Test an address

Not sure what happens at an address? Paste it under Test an address. You'll see which redirect applies, where it leads and why — and Check the real response asks your live site as a logged-out visitor would, which also catches redirects made by your server, a CDN or another plugin.

08 Import & export

• Switching from another plugin? Redirects from Redirection, Rank Math, Yoast SEO Premium, Safe Redirect Manager and Simple 301 Redirects are found automatically — import them with one click.
• From a file — drop a spreadsheet (CSV), a JSON backup, or .htaccess / Nginx rules, or paste lines like /old-page, /new-page. Every line is checked in a preview before anything is saved.
• Export — a spreadsheet, a full backup for moving to another site, or rules for Apache (.htaccess) and Nginx.

09 Settings & Dark mode

• Appearance — Light (the default), Dark, or Match WordPress to use your admin colour scheme. It's your own choice: everyone who manages redirects picks their own.
• Dark mode button — beside the tabs; one click for dark, another for light.
• Other settings — automatic redirects, the pages-not-found list (how long it's kept, ignoring images and bots), defaults for new redirects, letting editors manage redirects, and what happens to your data if the plugin is deleted.

10 Shortcuts around WordPress

While editing a page or post, the Redirects box shows the old addresses that lead to it, and lets you send the page itself somewhere else.

11 Questions