PathCatch – URL Health, Redirects & 404 Monitor
| 开发者 | apexdigitalcompany |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月19日 02:32 |
| PHP版本: | 8.1 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
PathCatch is the URL-health layer for WordPress. It is not an SEO suite — it keeps
your links, redirects, and crawl paths clean, and rolls everything into a single
URL Health Score so you can see at a glance what needs fixing.
Redirects
- Create and manage 301, 302, 307, and 308 redirects with exact, wildcard, and regex matching.
- Configurable matching: trailing-slash and case normalization, query-string handling, and rule precedence.
- Auto-create a 301 when a published post's slug changes, so old URLs never 404.
- "Redirect intelligence" flags redirect chains and loops, and — as a background check — redirects whose destination now returns a 404 or a server error, with one-click "flatten chain".
- Import from CSV and
.htaccess; export to CSV, Apache, or Nginx (as text you install yourself — PathCatch never writes to your server config).
- Log WordPress-routed 404s with hit counts, referrers, and bot filtering.
- Turn any logged 404 into a redirect in one click.
- Retention control keeps the log from growing without bound.
- Scan posts and pages for broken links and images, on demand or on a schedule, with an optional email digest.
- Detect and validate your existing sitemap (WordPress core, Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO) for unreachable or error URLs — PathCatch complements those plugins and does not generate a competing sitemap.
- Safe by default and reversible: nothing changes your content or server config without you choosing to.
- Hardened: redirect targets are validated against open-redirect abuse, outbound link checks are guarded against SSRF, and all admin actions are capability- and nonce-protected.
安装:
- Upload the
pathcatchfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from Plugins → Add New in your dashboard. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen.
- Open the PathCatch menu in your admin. Redirects and 404 Watch are on by default; enable the Link Scanner and Sitemap Health under PathCatch → Settings.
常见问题:
Does this replace my SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO)?
No. PathCatch is the operational URL-health layer beneath them. It manages redirects and 404s and validates your existing sitemap rather than generating one, so it works alongside your SEO plugin instead of competing with it.
Will the redirects slow down my site?
No. Redirect rules are cached, and a request that doesn't match a rule performs no extra database query beyond the ones WordPress already runs.
Does the scanner send my data anywhere?
No. Scans run on your own server and only request the URLs found in your content and sitemap to see if they resolve. There is no external PathCatch service.
Is it multisite compatible?
Yes. On a network activation the plugin creates its tables for every site, and new sites are provisioned automatically.
更新日志:
1.0.0
- First stable release.
- Fix: exact-match redirect rules whose source contains a query string (e.g. "/?p=51") now match only that query, instead of matching every request to the same path.
- New: background redirect destination-health monitoring (detects redirects that now land on a 404 or server error) with one-click chain flattening.
- New: Link Scanner — scan posts and pages for broken links and images, on demand or on a schedule, with an optional email digest.
- New: Sitemap Health — detect and validate your existing sitemap for unreachable or error URLs.
- New: multisite-safe activation, upgrade, and uninstall.
- Hardening and reliability: SSRF-guarded outbound checks (incl. IPv4-mapped IPv6), open-redirect validation, a robust background-job queue, and 404-log retention.
- Initial release: Redirect Center, 404 Watch, redirect chain/loop detection, auto-redirect on slug change, CSV/.htaccess import, server-rule export, and the URL Health Score.