Redirect / 404 management

[djtide]

Hello - Searched around for this and found some older plugins (4.6) but nothing current. I'd like to have:

 - A list of 404's that are occuring, with manual redirection I provide
 - Enter direct folder or other URLs to redirect

For example, I would like /forums/ which was my old URL to redirect to the homepage.
Also, I'd like popular deep links to have a means of redirecting to the correct content.

My overall issue is my old URL structure was a "vBulletin Addon" for SEO optimization, and any conversion was unlikely to know that URL conversion. Roughly 20% of my incoming traffic right now is 404.

[djtide]

One thing I hoped might help was in advanced configuration, which looked like what I needed but in testing did not work as I had hoped:

OOoooh, nevermind, that does work -- I was just testing a topic that no longer existed. Happy dance.

[djtide]

The above works *sometimes* but seems to fail more often than not, presumably due to how regex parses the incoming URL. So I'm still curious if there are other solutions or if I should just hand-write some JavaScript to be executed in the head (if that's even possible).

[Randy Calvert]

I’m not aware of anything that exists today for this.  I would personally do it with .htaccess instead of JS just to keep it cleaner and not mess with themes. 

[Claudia999]

I'm using these apps: