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Better Random Redirect

By Robert Peake

Site Administration & Utilities / URL Redirects & 301 Management

Better Random Redirect Review - In-Depth Analysis

Efficient plugin for random redirection to posts. Supports category settings and custom URLs.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

7.12/10

User Rating

4.6/5 (based on 10+ reviews)

Active Installations

700+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

5 / 10 (Medium Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

This plugin is based on the original Random Redirect and enables efficient, easy random redirection to a post. It supports setting a category for all random redirects, allowing users to utilize shortcodes to generate URLs that can override the default category. Additionally, users can set their own redirector URL.

Designed to scale to handle high-traffic websites with thousands of posts, this plugin employs a more efficient strategy than most other redirection plugins.

Special thanks to Tim Green for providing additional quality assurance testing on the popular rattle.com website.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Better Random Redirect plugin.

random redirect

post redirection

category settings

Screenshots

FAQ

Yep, really. So many of the ones currently out there are not suitable for large websites with lots of traffic.

This is because many random redirect plugins rely on the 'orderby' => 'rand' constraint in WordPress, or directly use 'ORDER BY RAND()' in their MySQL queries. This results in notoriously poor performance and can really cause problems with your MySQL server if this operation is heavily repeated on a website with lots of eligible posts.

This plugin uses a more efficient approach, including transient caching of all eligible posts by category and their post counts to minimise the time it takes to pick a true random post.