Redirection

1{
2  "schemaVersion": 1,
3  "plugin": "redirection",
4  "displayName": "Redirection",
5  "profileVersion": "2026-10",
6  "sourceOfTruth": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/",
7  "distribution": "wordpress-org",
8  "capabilities": [
9    "content.url-redirects"
10  ],
11  "detect": {
12    "pluginFileIds": [
13      "redirection/redirection"
14    ],
15    "restNamespaces": [
16      "redirection/v1"
17    ],
18    "assetPathSlugs": [
19      "redirection"
20    ]
21  },
22  "entities": [
23    {
24      "entity": "redirect-rule",
25      "capability": "content.url-redirects",
26      "channel": "db-only",
27      "candidateTargetRefs": [],
28      "redirectSource": {
29        "provider": "redirection",
30        "format": "redirection",
31        "tables": {
32          "rules": "redirection_items",
33          "groups": "redirection_groups"
34        }
35      },
36      "blocked": [
37        {
38          "kind": "structure-bridge-plugin",
39          "resolution": "Discovery reads this plugin's redirect tables through the wix-wp-plugin-v2 bridge automatically. If the bridge is missing or the read fails, Requires Import Operator: re-run discovery with wix-wp-plugin-v2 connected, or export the plugin's redirects as CSV and pass them to url-redirects.js sources --input.",
40          "declined": false
41        }
42      ],
43      "pitfalls": [
44        {
45          "code": "applied-at-cutover-not-import",
46          "severity": "info",
47          "summary": "Redirect rules are captured at discovery into state/url-preservation/source-redirects.ndjson with per-provider coverage in source-redirect-coverage.json. Backend import never writes them to Wix: the redirect helpers (url-redirects.js plan/apply/verify) install and check them after the website exists, timed by cutover. The capability stays pending until that path is live-verified."
48        },
49        {
50          "code": "rest-routes-are-not-the-read-channel",
51          "severity": "info",
52          "summary": "VERIFIED LIVE 2026-10-28 (Redirection 5.9.0): the plugin advertises redirection/v1 routes (/redirect, /group, /export/*) but the route classifier skips them as operational helpers. Rules are read from the redirection_items and redirection_groups tables instead; a group's status disables every rule in it."
53        },
54        {
55          "code": "logs-are-not-rules",
56          "severity": "warning",
57          "summary": "The plugin also keeps redirect logs, 404 logs and hit counters (redirection_logs, redirection_404, last_count). They are never rules and are never captured as rules."
58        }
59      ]
60    }
61  ],
62  "quirks": [
63    "A rule's group can be an Apache or Nginx module group: those are server-config exports, not rules WordPress serves, and are kept with a server_module condition."
64  ]
65}