--- title: Enable 301 redirections and 404 monitoring url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/redirections/" lang: en-US updated: 2026-03-31 --- # Enable 301 redirections and 404 monitoring ## Create a global redirect To do that, go to **SEO, PRO, Redirections / 404** tab. [![PRO > 404 Monitoring Redirections tab - SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/08-01-pro-404-monitoring-redirections-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/08-01-pro-404-monitoring-redirections-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png) *PRO > 404 Monitoring Redirections tab – SEOPress PRO* Check the iOS radio button associated with **Redirections**. Refresh your page, a new custom post type called **Redirections** is now available on your left menu. Click **Add redirection** under **Redirections** custom post type. Add your url in title field (eg: “my-custom-permalink”) **without your domain name neither slash before or after.** If you have a permalink structure like **/%category%/%postname%/**, make sure to include the categories: **“category/sub-category/my-custom-permalink”.** From the **SEO** metabox: - check **Enable redirection**, - choose a **redirection type,** - select a **login status**, - and set a **new url** (must be in absolute, eg: “https://example.com/test”). Click **Publish**. [![Create a redirect with SEOPress](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/redirect-seopress.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/redirect-seopress.png) *Create a redirect with SEOPress* ## Create a redirect from an existing post If you want to redirect a post, page or post type, you can do that directly from post screen editing via our **SEO** metabox, **Redirection** tab. Enter your redirect **URL in absolute**, check **Enable Redirection** and choose **301** as a type. **Save** your post and clear your **cache** if necessary. ## Advanced settings for redirects ### Regular expressions To use a regular expression in the origin URL, make sure to check “**Regex**” option from the **SEO** metabox, **Redirection** tab (see screenshot). Enter your regex in the **origin URL field** (ie post title). We strongly suggest you to use Regex online tester to help you like [https://regex101.com/](https://regex101.com/). Regular expressions are extremely powerful but misused they can have disastrous effects on your URLs and therefore your SEO. Test, test and test! ![Regex option in Redirections - SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/seopress-redirection-regex.png) *Regex option in Redirections – SEOPress PRO* Since version 5.5 of SEOPress PRO, you can capture groups and pass them dynamically to the destination URL. For example, you want to redirect all your product pages like: ``` https://example.com/product/my-singular-product-page https://example.com/product/another-singular-product-page ``` To a new permastructure like: ``` https://example.com/shop/my-singular-product-page https://example.com/shop/another-singular-product-page ``` Simply enter this a source URL: ``` ^/product/(.*) ``` And in the URL redirection field: ``` https://example.com/shop/$1 ``` `$1` matches the first captured group in your regex, ie, `(.*)` ### Query parameters Query parameters in a redirect refer to the additional information appended to a URL, typically after a question mark (?). They are used to pass data to the server, which can then be used to determine how to handle the request. Query parameters can be managed in different ways: - **Exactly match all parameters**: The redirect will only occur if the query parameters in the request match exactly with those specified in the redirect rule. - **Exclude all parameters**: The redirect will occur without considering any query parameters, effectively ignoring them. - **Exclude all parameters and pass them to the redirection**: The redirect will occur, and the query parameters will be passed along to the destination URL. These options allow you to control how query parameters are handled during the redirection process, ensuring that the desired behavior is achieved. ### Connection status as a condition If you want to run a redirect based on the connection status of your visitor, click on “**Select a login status**” list and choose between 3 options: - **Only Logged In** - **Only Not Logged In** - **All** (default) For example, you have a ecommerce site and you want to redirect your clients only if they are logged in to their account, now you can! ### Custom conditions for redirects If you need advanced custom conditions, we have a hook for that! [seopress\_before\_redirect](https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/add-action-before-redirect/) The argument passed is a **WP\_Post** object, you can pretty much do everything you want now by adding your own conditions. ## Automatic redirects on post deletion / slug change SEOPress can automatically alert you via a notice as soon as a URL is modified or deleted in order to create a redirection from the old URL to the new one in 2 clicks. First, make sure the option “**Disable notifications on slug changes or post / term deletions**” is not unchecked from **SEO**, **PRO**, **Redirections / 404** tab. Then, edit a permalink, save your post and go back to the post type list to see the notice. Click the **Create a redirection** button, check all the pre-filled fields and click **Publish**. [![Notice on slug change to create a redirect with SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/notice-automatic-redirect-seopress-pro.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/notice-automatic-redirect-seopress-pro.png) *Notice on slug change to create a redirect with SEOPress PRO* ## Import / Export redirects Please follow this guide to [import / export your redirects from a CSV file](https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/import-redirects-from-a-csv-file/) to SEOPress. ## Enable 404 monitoring If you want to monitor all your 404 errors, go to **SEO**, **Pro**, **Redirections / 404** and check **Enable 404 monitoring**. We also strongly recommend you to enable the 404 cleaning by checking **Automatically delete 404 after 30 days (useful if you have a lot of 404)** option. You can exclude paths from 404 monitoring by adding them to the dedicated field **Exclude paths from 404 logging**. Do not forget to **Save changes**. ## My redirect doesn’t work! ### URL conflicts Try to **clear your 404 errors** from **SEO**, **Tools**, **Redirections** tab, **Clean your 404** section, and click **Delete all 404** button. Try also to **clear your browser cache**. And make sure the checkbox **Enable redirection** is checked. Check also your **Redirects** list to make sure you don’t have a duplicated origin URL, or a **regular expression similar** to another one. ### Query parameters Depending on how your website is built, dynamic query parameters may be used in URLs. This setting should then be adjusted from the redirect creation, **query parameters**. If it still doesn’t work, please open a support ticket.