Bloated redirect plugins with broken import features
Users experience frustration when essential plugins fail to work out of the box, feature broken import functionality, and become bloated with unwanted promotions rather than receiving functional solutions. Furthermore, users face difficulties managing large sites with history, replicating settings, adding rows, and are often redirected by support to other bloated plugins.
6 different people have complained about this since 24 Jan 2020, most recently on 24 Jan 2025.
No new posts for 652 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 24 Jan 2025.
- “I can’t blame @scottnelle and WPDeveloper for the sale (or whatever transaction happened) but the plugin is bloated with promotion for Betterlinks and worse, does not work out of the box anymore while the “Redire”
- “If you have a large site with history, this could become a nightmare to deal with.”
- “Unfortunately I am unable to find them so I can replicate them elsewhere.”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
What goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 different people
- Since
- 24 Jan 2020 → 24 Jan 2025
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 50% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint350%
- Request350%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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…But… Now it is just a Marketing Tool for BetterLinks by WPDeveloper. I can’t blame @scottnelle and WPDeveloper for the sale (or whatever transaction happened) but the plugin is bloated with promotion for Betterlinks and worse, does not work out of the box anymore while the “Redire
Doesn't work…r years and think it is going to be easy to remove all the redirects. If you have a large site with history, this could become a nightmare to deal with. Just delete the plugin, move on to another plugin that works. This one sucks!
…I can replicate them with another redirection plugin that does work. Unfortunately I am unable to find them so I can replicate them elsewhere. I requested support on Word Press forums quite some time ago, and hav
…lot of sites, but something happened to the focus of the developers. The import functionality has been broken for quite a while now. Even if you import the export file of the plugin itself, it doesn’t work.
…sk. It know has gotten issues cluttering the log file when debugging. Support recommends another, totally bloated plugin. I recommend staying away and find antoher simple redirects mananger. Sad.
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Why did it move?
Score 25.4 → 25.0 · 05 Nov 2026, 18:00 → 19:15 UTC
How the score was measured38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Bloated redirect plugins with broken import features a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 24 Jan 2020 and the most recent from 24 Jan 2025. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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