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Equivalent Mobile Redirect
Easy way to detect and redirect mobile visitors to the equivalent page on your mobile site. Optionally redirect all mobile users to one mobile URL.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.9★ from 33
- Active installs
- 2k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Jan 2021
- Added
- Jul 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 5.6.19
- Downloads
- 89,910
Our analysis
AI-assistedEquivalent Mobile Redirect is a WordPress plugin designed to detect mobile devices and redirect users to corresponding mobile pages. Upon activation, it adds a metabox to page and post screens where you can set the mobile URL for each item. It also offers options to redirect all mobile users to a single URL and to manage redirects for tablets as well.
This plugin is suitable for website owners who want to enhance the mobile experience by ensuring visitors are directed to mobile-optimised content. It includes features like unlimited redirects, support for custom post types, and the ability to let mobile visitors view the full site if desired.
Best for: Website owners looking to improve mobile user experience through redirection.
What it does well
- ✓Detects mobile devices for redirection
- ✓Unlimited page/post redirects available
- ✓Supports custom post types
- ✓Google recommended 302 redirects
- ✓Option to let users view the full site
Where it falls short
- •Some devices may not be accurately detected as mobile
- •Mobile browsers set to Desktop mode can bypass detection
- •Detection may not be 100% up to date due to new devices
Verdict
Equivalent Mobile Redirect offers useful features for managing mobile traffic, but its detection limitations may affect some users.
From the developer
js2484's own description of Equivalent Mobile Redirect, lightly tidied.
This WordPress plugin will detect mobile devices and redirect the user to the equivalent mobile page as set in the metabox that is added to your page and post screens upon activation. You can optionally override equivalent redirects and instead redirect all mobile users to one URL.
Features
- Unlimited possible page/post redirects
- Set mobile URL in meta box on each page/post
- Option to redirect blog index in settings
- Option to override equivalent redirects and redirect all mobile users to one URL
- Option to redirect tablets as mobile or not
- Comprehensive mobile detection library
- Google recommended 302 redirects for mobile
- Option to let mobile visitors “View Full Site”. To use this feature add a link like “http://example.com/?view_full_site=true” anywhere on your mobile site.
- Built in support for custom post types
Configuring cache plugins for Equivalent Mobile Redirect
Some caching software set on your desktop site may override Equivalent Mobile Redirect’s mobile detection method and then the redirects will not function properly. Fortunately, most caching plugins can be set to disable caching when mobile devices are detected.
If you use: W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, Wordfence, WP Rocket, Hyper Cache, Quick Cache Pro, WP Simple Cache, Comet Cache, WPEngine, or other caching plugins or services.
In the settings you will need to disable caching for the following User Agents: iPhone, iPod, Android, BB10, BlackBerry, webOS, IEMobile/7.0, IEMobile/9.0, IEMobile/10.0, MSIE 10.0, iPad, PlayBook, Xoom , P160U, SCH-I800, Nexus 7, Touch
Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs
To help search engines understand separate mobile URLs tags are automatically added to the desktop pages to tell crawlers about it. For a more in-depth explaination of annotations please see Google developers
Known limitations
- Some touchscreen devices (eg. Microsoft Surface) are tough to detect as mobile since they can be used in a laptop mode.
- If the mobile browser is set on Desktop mode, the Mobile Detect script has no way of knowing that the device is mobile.
- There are hundreds of devices launched every month, we cannot keep a 100% up to date detection rate.
Tagged as
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