Redirects and 404 monitor
Redirects from old addresses to new ones — without losing visitors or rankings.
Addresses change: a section gets renamed, a product moves, the shop is migrated from another platform. The old links stay in search results, in bookmarks and in other people's articles, and they land visitors on an empty page. Here those links are forwarded to working ones, and you also see exactly which addresses are breaking.
What it does
- Forwards a visitor and a search engine from an old address to a new one, permanently or temporarily, as you choose.
- A rule can cover a single address or a whole section at once, keeping the tail of the address: /old/product becomes /new/product.
- The destination can be a page of your shop or an external address, and the parameters the visitor arrived with — advertising campaign tags, for example — can be carried over.
- A rule works on one storefront or on all of them, can be switched on and off, and shows how many times it fired and when it was last used.
- Keeps a list of addresses where visitors hit a missing page: how often, where they came from and when it last happened; scanner noise is filtered out.
- For each such record it suggests a similar working address — a product, section or page with a close address — and lets you create a redirect in one click, after which the record leaves the list.
What we fixed
A redirect triggered inside the shop in Telegram took the customer out of Telegram to the regular website. Now an old link leads to the new page right where the customer opened it, inside Telegram. Redirects on the website work as before.
Fixed
A visitor of the Ukrainian version of the site was sent to the Russian page by a redirect: a rule led from /ua/old/ to /new/ instead of /ua/new/. The same happened with redirects the shop creates itself when a product or category changes its address. Visitors now stay in their language. Rules with a full address (https://…) and rules where the language is written explicitly work as before.
What's new
Redirect rules can now be uploaded from a file: the Redirects section has a new “Upload from file” button that accepts XLSX and CSV tables. If you are moving from Webasyst, export the rules from the “SEO redirects” plugin and upload the file as is. The shop sorts out the columns itself, removes the domain from full addresses and the /ru/ language prefix, and after the upload shows which rows it did not carry over and why. Uploading the same file again updates the rules instead of creating copies.
What we fixed
A rule whose old address was written in Cyrillic did not work: the customer landed on a “page not found”. Such a rule now works, and a Cyrillic address longer than thirty letters no longer fails to save. Addresses that differ only in letter case, such as /Brand/ and /brand/, are now treated as different rules, the same way the storefront tells them apart.
What to do after updating
The upload button appears in shops running version 2.78.0 or newer. If your shop is not updated yet, update it too.
The redirect is created for you when you rename something
Until now a rule had to be added by hand: until you remembered it, visitors from the old link landed on an empty page. Now, when the address of a section, product or page changes in the shop, the add-on creates a rule from the old address to the new one right away. A section moves together with everything inside it: subsections and products get their new addresses by the same rule.
If the address was changed more than once, no chain of hops is built: a visitor with the very first link lands straight on the latest address. Storefront addresses now keep their trailing slash when a whole section moves, so a customer arrives in one hop instead of two.
Requires CartiX 2.12.0 or newer.
The section in the new panel
Redirects and the list of addresses with no page have moved into the new control panel. A rule is still created straight from an address where a customer found nothing, and the shop suggests a similar existing address. Deleting a rule now asks for confirmation in a panel dialog instead of a browser one.
An icon of its own
In the «Plugins» section and in the list of installed items the add-on now shows its own icon instead of an identical box, so you find the one you need at a glance. The icon appears on shops running version 1.30.0 and newer.
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