Better HTTP Redirects

Better HTTP Redirects makes your Blog's redirects to play more nicely the HTTP standards.

Author:hakre (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.9
WordPress version tested:3.2-alpha
Plugin version:1.2.2
Added to WordPress repository:24-06-2010
Last updated:25-03-2011
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://hakre.wordpress.com/plugins/better-htt...
Total downloads:14 552
Active installs:40+
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Better HTTP Redirects makes your Blog’s redirects to play more nicely the HTTP standards. Dual Mode Plugin, can be used as a standard Plugin or as a Must-Use Plugin.

Features

  • Provide Hypertext Fragments on redirects where applicable.
  • Compatible with any current usage of the wp_redirect() API function.
  • Prevent unnecessary redirect loops on UTF-8 based sites.
  • Improved user and robot (search engines etc.) experience for your website.
  • No need for you to wait until core code get’s fixed – if ever!
  • Helps you debugging redirect related issues with it’s unique Redirect Debug Mode.
  • Free

TODO

  • Verify that the plugin is stricly preventing redirects that redirect to the same URI (see RFC 2616 section 3.2.3).

Integration

“Better HTTP Redirects” works out of the box but for a better integration you can make use of the following:

  • Hook redirect_hypertext $hypertext = apply_filters('redirect_hypertext', $hypertext, $location, $status);

Document Scope

This file readme.txt has been created in the intention to provide data to be displayed on the wordpress.org plugin repository website. As always, for anything concrete and precise, refer to the plugin sourcecode itself, it ships with phpdoc style comments.


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