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.
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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