Redirection 3: REST API

The new version 3 of Redirection requires the WordPress REST API, which is a change from using admin AJAX.

Going forward this should make it easier and simpler for the plugin to work, as well as hopefully avoiding problems that some setups have with admin AJAX.

Saying that, it is possible to also cause some issues. I’ll list a few here:

– If you have disabled the REST API you will need to allow Redirection access to it.
– If you have redirected access to the REST API then you will need to allow Redirection access to it
– If you have re-enabled the REST API you may need to save your permalink settings to get it to update things

You can test your REST API by accessing /wp-json/ on your site. If you get an error page then it has been blocked in someway. If you get a bunch of data then it is working fine.

I will attempt to make the errors clearer around this, and provide more immediate support along with options.

I also intend to investigate whether it’s possible to temporarily proxy the requests through admin AJAX, so it’s still usable for people who can’t immediatley change for some reason.

Thanks for listening.

John

• This topic was modified 8 years ago by John Godley.