Internal links that go through a 301 or 302 redirect waste crawl budget, slow down visitors and dilute SEO signals. Linkstraight Redirect Fixer replaces them in bulk with the final URL, safely.
Workflow (Tools > Fix Redirects)
- Import the "Response Codes > Redirection (3xx)" CSV export of your SEO crawler (such as Screaming Frog SEO Spider, English or French headers, comma or semicolon separated).
- Select: redirect chains are resolved to the final URL. Risky cases are unchecked by default with the reason shown (302 to the home page, WooCommerce empty cart, /embed/ and pagination URLs, protocol-only changes, redirect loops).
- Dry run: number of replacements per URL and list of affected contents with edit links. Nothing is changed.
- Validate: confirm you reviewed the dry run and have a backup, then apply.
- Afterwards: caches are flushed, you can search for remaining URLs across the site tables, and restore the original values in one click.
Link formats handled
- Absolute links, http or https, with or without www.
- JSON-escaped links (page builders such as Elementor).
- Links inside block attributes, including ACF blocks (
\u0022 encoded quotes).
- Relative links (
href="/path/"), including menu custom links and ACF URL or link fields storing a bare /path/. They stay relative when the target is on the same site.
- JSON-escaped relative links (
"\/path\/").
Data processed
Post content and excerpts, custom fields (ACF included), options (widgets, ACF options pages, theme mods), menus, term descriptions and meta, user meta. Serialized data is unserialized, updated and serialized again; values containing PHP objects are never instantiated and are reported instead.
Never modified
Redirection plugin tables, revisions, transients, Yoast SEO Premium redirects, the siteurl and home options.
Built for large sites
Processing runs through AJAX in short slices (15 seconds by default) and resumes automatically after a timeout. Original values are stored in a dedicated database table, never in public files.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a trademark of Screaming Frog Ltd. Linkstraight Redirect Fixer is not affiliated with or endorsed by Screaming Frog; it only reads the CSV export format.
- Upload the plugin through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or copy the
linkstraight-redirect-fixer folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
- Activate the plugin.
- Go to Tools > Fix Redirects.
On a multisite network, the tool is available to super admins only, because it reads and writes tables shared by the network (users and user meta).