Title: Automatic created redirects
Last modified: May 16, 2019

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# Automatic created redirects

 *  Resolved [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/)
 * Hi, the plugin seems great but we have one problem with it. Even though if we
   set in the Options NOT to create automatically redirects, we have all the time
   a lot of them made without our control. If we don’t want to allow them then it
   should not be doing it. Is it a bug or???
 * Thanks,
    Karel

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 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542053)
 * Hey Karel,
 * Do you have the latest version?
 * I’m not able to get the same result that you are. I unchecked the “Create automatic
   redirects” option and clicked save, then I went to a URL similar to an existing
   page and I didn’t get redirected to the page.
 * Are you sure the URL you tested doesn’t already have an automatic redirect? You
   can go to the “Page Redirects” -> “Automatic Redirects” tab to delete the existing
   ones.
 * The plugin will also redirect to a specific page if you’ve specified that with
   the option “Redirect all unhandled 404s to.” To leave the default 404 page you
   can set this to “(Default 404 Page).”
 * If you still have issues then please enable debug logging and paste the last 
   part of the log by following these instructions.
    1) Turn on debug logging: Settings-
   > 404 Solution -> Options -> Advanced Settings Etc -> Debug Logging (check the
   box) 2) Scroll down and click Save Settings 3) Go to a URL that does not already
   have an existing redirect. e.g. if you have a contact page then it could be [http://www.website.com/contact1](http://www.website.com/contact1)
   4) View the debug log Settings -> 404 Solution -> Options -> Advanced Settings
   Etc -> View the debug file (click the link) 5) Scroll all the way down and copy
   and paste only the last page (about 30 lines of the log file here).
 * FYI, the log file may say something like:
    2019-05-17 09:17:37 GMT+0000 (DEBUG):
   Processing 404 for URL: /404solution-site/contact1 | Redirect: {“id”:0} | is_single():
   | is_page(): | is_feed(): | is_trackback(): | is_preview(): | options: auto_redirects:
   0, auto_score: 90, auto_cats: 1, auto_tags: 1, dest404page: 13689|1, HTTP_USER_AGENT:
   Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
   Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 Safari/537.36, REMOTE_ADDR: 837ec5754f503cfaaee0929fd48974e7,
   REQUEST_URI: /404solution-site/contact1 2019-05-17 09:17:37 GMT+0000 (DEBUG):
   No posts or pages matching slug: contact1 2019-05-17 09:17:37 GMT+0000 (DEBUG):
   Logging redirect. Referer: | Current user: | From: /404solution-site/contact1
   to: [http://localhost:8888/404solution-site/custom-404-page/](http://localhost:8888/404solution-site/custom-404-page/),
   Reason: user specified 404 page. , Ignore msg(s): , Execution time: 0.05 seconds
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542156)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for answering. If I delete automatic redirects, they are recreated again
   if someone goes there later, right? So I had to change and reupdate them to manual
   ones.
 * I also have a feeling that those redirects were made automatically for tags, 
   categories etc. But not for posts. I made tens of filters no to get 404 which
   is not relevant and put the automatic redirect on. Which is quite ok now.
 * But, how does it work with already existing redirects? Are they visible as automatic?
   I suppose that automatic are the new ones created by your plugin based on the
   title and most probably correct URL, am I right?
 * We use YOAST redirect (in PHP mode) and also permalink customizer redirects. 
   We moved our whole site with over 9k posts so we had to prepare customized permalink
   structures…
 * Also, few more bugs. If you trash redirects, you cannot empty the trash but must
   mark them and then click the menu and delete permanently, Emptry trash does nothing
   here.
 * And, it would be good to be able to mark redirects as Approved or something, 
   to put them to a different category to be able to see there only new ones and
   be able to check them. Right now it is mixed with new, manual and everything 
   but I cannot easily check new to be sure that everything is fine. Could you add
   it?
 * And, one last thing. How does it work, Captured and Redirects. Are articles visible
   in Captured 404 also redirected or not? Do I see one post from Captured also 
   in Redirects? If captured is redirected, can you show it in the list of Captured
   to see it clearly that it was processed? Because right now it’s a little bit 
   chaotic to know if I must write with 404 URLs or if they were already redirected
   or not. Two lists to work with…
 * Thank you.
    Karel
 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542580)
 * If you delete an automatic redirect then it is recreated only if that option 
   is activated in the options.
 * If a redirect is created automatically then it is visible in the list of automatic
   redirects. Yes, they are based on URL matching (not title).
 * Thanks for letting me know about the Empty Trash button bug. I will include the
   fix in the next version.
 * I guess the “approve” functionality you’re describing would be an addition to
   the captured 404s. They could include a suggested redirect destination instead
   of not suggesting a destination. I’ll add it to the list of things to do.
 * A “Captured 404” and a “Redirect” are two different things. Redirects redirect
   the user and a “Captured 404” means nothing was done so the user saw a 404 page(
   or was redirected according to the settings for the 404 page).
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542626)
 * OK, but if I make or is made a redirection, then it would be nice to see it also
   in 404 to know that this one is taken care of.
 * Also, I need to check also automated redirection, not just 404. So Approved category
   is meant mainly for the Redirection. For 404 I can directly redirect them or 
   trash or filter from the list. But I can to nothing to organize the redirects.
   That would be very nice to have. Because we get quite a lot of wrong redirects
   so I need to change them which is then manual and is not rewritten, or delete
   it or approve the automated one that it is correct. But then I cannot organize
   it to see just the new ones, not approved by us and which must be controlled 
   that the redirection is not going to something which we don’t want…
 * Karel
 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542802)
 * I don’t understand what you want.
 * “if I make or is made a redirection, then it would be nice to see it also in 
   404” <– This makes no sense. They are two different things.
 * “I need to check also automated redirection, not just 404” <– I don’t know what
   you’re checking for.
 * “I can to nothing to organize the redirects.” <– What kind of organization were
   you hoping for?
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11542943)
 * 1. ok, if the link is EITHER in 404 OR in redirection but not in both then it
   is fine. But if I am in the list of 404, edit one link to be redirected somewhere,
   does the link moves to something like DONE, FINISHED, APPROVED or something so
   I know that I don’t have to think about it anymore? Seeing some mark that 404
   is already redirected would help.
 * 2. Again, I have 50 new automated directions for example. 40 are fine, 10 are
   not. I must edit those 10, correct it, they move to manual redirection aftewards.
   Then there is 40 automated redirects. Now I have 50 checked and approved internally
   redirects which are fine and can stay.
 * Then next day I have another 50 redirects, again 10 wrong, 40 right. How can 
   I now EASILY go and check only those which are not checked? There is no option
   to move approved redirects to some Approved category (like ignored, trashed or
   whatever).
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11543086)
 * I don’t know if your update did it but now when I click on one link in 404 to
   trash it, I get error modal window. See here, it cannot be copied, [https://imgur.com/nhVaJAO](https://imgur.com/nhVaJAO)
   There is nothing in your log, I have debug on. The post is moved to trash in 
   the end, but the error shows up.
 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11543339)
 * 1. When you edit a captured 404 it becomes a redirect, so it’s “done.” When you
   edit a redirect it stays a redirect, so it’s also done.
 * 2. If you edit an automatic redirect it becomes a manual redirect. Did you try
   this before asking me? Please try things before asking me.
 * The purpose of an automatic redirect is that it’s automatic and that there is
   no approval process. If you want an approval process then please turn off the
   option to create automatic redirects and “approve” your redirects by creating
   them manually.
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11543441)
 * No, you still don’t understand. And yes, we changed automatic to manual, as I
   wrote few times above so know that. We just need to be able to check not controlled,
   that means newly added automatic redirects. We want to keep automatic redirects
   turned on but we need to be able to take the whole batch we have controlled and
   verified and set them as “ok”. This can be done by moving them for example to
   a new Category or whatever, for example Checked, Ok, Approved, I don’t care. 
   The goal is to have list of new, UNCHECKED and not controlled redirects easily
   visible so we know every day that these redirects are new and we must check them
   if they are correct.
 * We don’t want to have only 404 and manually make all the redirects. I think that
   in general your plugin is great and is doing great job with automatic redirects.
   Thanks for that. But we really cannot have one HUGE table with all redirects 
   and not being able to really see only the new ones.
 * And for this purpose it would be very easy for you to do, to make a new category
   and not just automatic, manual or trash, but also Approved for example. And we
   will just simply put our controlled redirects there.
 * Trust me, we have just in half a day over 100 redirects, hundreds of 404 and 
   we must be able to work with them. We have over 9000 posts so we cannot see just
   one list and check it, sort it, scroll it and count it every day.
 * I believe that it won’t be difficult for you and others would appreciate it for
   sure as well. Just one more category to be able to use.
 * Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11544633)
 * Could you please tell me how to exclude this 404 ULR: /Video/AllVideosparentObjType
   =Site Because there are few similar pages and this */Video/* is not working and
   the URL is still being generated in 404 list.
 * Thank you.
 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11544768)
 * I think I understand. You’re asking for a new feature. The plugin doesn’t allow
   categorizing or approving redirects right now.
 * I don’t think it would be easy and I’m skeptical as to how many other people 
   would use this because it’s the first time anyone’s asked for it. I also don’t
   see the benefit of what you’re describing over simply offering a suggested destination
   when editing a captured 404. It seems like the result of offering a suggestion
   in a captured 404 would be the same.
 * If it’s easy to make the change I invite you to suggest a code change directly
   at [https://github.com/aaron13100/404solution](https://github.com/aaron13100/404solution)
   or to create a fork of the project to show me what you mean. For me, adding the
   functionality you described isn’t a priority right now.
 *  Plugin Author [Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron13100/)
 * (@aaron13100)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11544769)
 * To exclude the URL /Video/AllVideosparentObjType=Site, if */Video/* doesn’t work
   then I would try Video/* and /Video/*. Maybe you need the first part of the URL,
   like in the examples. e.g. wp-content/Video/* or something similar. It’s case
   sensitive.
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11544786)
 * Ok, I’ll test the exlusion in more ways. However, regarding the approval, we 
   just need to go through all the automatic links and as you can see here [https://imgur.com/c5o6mi0](https://imgur.com/c5o6mi0)
   there is a lot of them and will be even more. So maybe just to have a simple 
   checkbox or absolutely anything to be able to mark them as “ok” would really 
   help… And we must do it because some redirects are linking wrong even if it is
   set to 90 score…
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11544834)
 * Or another idea, just to be able to sort the list by dates. So if we will know
   that Redirects created from xy to xz are checked and be able to filter just to
   the newer one, that would work too ;-).
 *  Thread Starter [keengamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keengamer/)
 * (@keengamer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-created-redirects/#post-11555458)
 * Hi again,
 * we just got several PHP error logs connected to your plugin:
 * Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable
   in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/404-solution/includes/DataAccess.php on line
   1305
 * Do you know what could be the cause? We did nothing out of the box…
 * Thanks,
    Karel

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