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Linkstraight Redirect Fixer

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Description

Internal links that go through a 301 or 302 redirect waste crawl budget, slow down visitors and dilute SEO signals. Linkstraight Redirect Fixer replaces them in bulk with the final URL, safely.

Workflow (Tools > Fix Redirects)

  1. Import the “Response Codes > Redirection (3xx)” CSV export of your SEO crawler (such as Screaming Frog SEO Spider, English or French headers, comma or semicolon separated).
  2. Select: redirect chains are resolved to the final URL. Risky cases are unchecked by default with the reason shown (302 to the home page, WooCommerce empty cart, /embed/ and pagination URLs, protocol-only changes, redirect loops).
  3. Dry run: number of replacements per URL and list of affected contents with edit links. Nothing is changed.
  4. Validate: confirm you reviewed the dry run and have a backup, then apply.
  5. Afterwards: caches are flushed, you can search for remaining URLs across the site tables, and restore the original values in one click.

Link formats handled

  • Absolute links, http or https, with or without www.
  • JSON-escaped links (page builders such as Elementor).
  • Links inside block attributes, including ACF blocks (\u0022 encoded quotes).
  • Relative links (href="/path/"), including menu custom links and ACF URL or link fields storing a bare /path/. They stay relative when the target is on the same site.
  • JSON-escaped relative links ("\/path\/").

Data processed

Post content and excerpts, custom fields (ACF included), options (widgets, ACF options pages, theme mods), menus, term descriptions and meta, user meta. Serialized data is unserialized, updated and serialized again; values containing PHP objects are never instantiated and are reported instead.

Never modified

Redirection plugin tables, revisions, transients, Yoast SEO Premium redirects, the siteurl and home options.

Built for large sites

Processing runs through AJAX in short slices (15 seconds by default) and resumes automatically after a timeout. Original values are stored in a dedicated database table, never in public files.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a trademark of Screaming Frog Ltd. Linkstraight Redirect Fixer is not affiliated with or endorsed by Screaming Frog; it only reads the CSV export format.

  1. Upload the plugin through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or copy the linkstraight-redirect-fixer folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Go to Tools > Fix Redirects.

On a multisite network, the tool is available to super admins only, because it reads and writes tables shared by the network (users and user meta).

Does it create redirects?

No. It fixes the links that point to existing redirects. Keep your redirects in place for external backlinks.

Is a backup required?

The plugin keeps the original value of every modified row and can restore them, but a full database backup before applying is strongly recommended.

The crawler still finds some URLs after the replacement

Clear external caches (CDN, hosting cache) and crawl again. Then use “Search for remaining URLs”: if a URL is not in the database, the link is hard-coded in a theme file or served from a cache.

Can I change the slice duration or the chunk size?

Yes, with the linkstraight_slice_seconds (default 15) and linkstraight_chunk_size (default 3000 rows) filters. The linkstraight_purge_caches action lets you purge additional caches after a replacement.

1.0.0

  • First release.
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