Auto Post Redirect not working

Hi Support,

I can’t get the ‘Auto Post Redirect’ to work as it is intended.

I am currently testing your plugin to see how it compares to many of the other SEO plugins out there. I like the fact that it incorporates a redirection extension as I have previously used another third-party plugin to do this exact thing. That third-party plugin automatically created redirects and added them to the list of redirects, any time a URL was changed. I believe this is the intended use of the ‘Auto Post Redirect’ feature. As seen in this screencast – https://i.rankmath.com/d5yhOb

So, I added the plugin to a site that had many plugins already installed, including Yoast SEO and my third-party redirection plugin creating by John Godley, and Divi theme running. When I added RankMAth and activated the Redirection feature, it automatically deactivated Yoast SEO and the third-party redirection plugin. But, I couldn’t get the auto redirects to work in RankMath. So, I tried deactivating all plugins and reverting to the Twenty Twenty theme, this still made no difference. I even tried deleting some tables from the database that are generated when the redirection feature is enabled as mentioned in this previous support ticket (https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/auto-post-redirect-error/) but that also made no difference. I thought maybe it might have something to do with the old third-party plugin I had used so I decided to set up a completely fresh blank WordPress install and add RankMath to that and test the auto-redirect feature, but it just doesn’t work for me.

What happens when I change a page URL is that a banner pops up to say a redirect has been auto-created and to click to edit, I have clicked on the banner and checked the redirection list and it never displays the auto-created redirect. Plus if I typed the old URL into the browser, it doesn’t redirect to the new page, it just loads a 404 error page. I can change the fallback in the settings and then have these redirect to the homepage, but I want it to auto-generate a redirect to the new URL like seen in the screencast above. This functionality means that any old cached pages in google will get redirected to my new page, and is the correct method for this sort of thing.

I’m presuming somewhere along the line this functionality has been messed up because the screencast shows it working, but I’ve tested on a completely fresh WordPress install and it still didn’t work.

Can someone help with this?