Greetings!
I am running into an issue with 301 Redirects plugin where it is creating a redirect chain. I am seeing additional hops that are unnecessary in my opinion.
This occurs with a custom post type on my site.
I initialize my post types on the init action hook.
For my example below, let’s say i need a redirect from /movies/test to /movies/something-else/ and something-else post has post id 12345.
Our admins add the redirect into the plugin by selecting the page from select menu. We are not using custom urls.
Let me describe the hops I see in the network tab.
Hop #1: test/ – Status: 301
Hop #2: ?p=12345 – Status: 301
Hop #3: something-else – Status: 301
Hop #4: something-else/ – Status: 200
What I’d like to do is get rid of the? p=12345 hop as this is not needed. The plugin should get the permalink from the post id and redirect to that.
What do you think is going on here and how might I be able to correct this issue?
Other plugins I have installed that might conflict are Yoast SEO.