Moving to https with a bunch of redirects my programmer can't handle

[Shawn124]

Hi Mozzers,

I referred a client of mine (last time) to a programmer that can transition their site from http to https.  They use a wordpress website and currently use EPS Redirects as a plugin that 301 redirects about 400 pages.  Currently, the way EPS redirects is setup (as shown in the attachment) is simple:

On the left side you enter your old url, and on the the right side is the newly 301'd url.  But here's the issue, since my client made the transition to https, the whole wordpress backend is setup that way as well.  What this means is, if my client finds another old http url that he wants to redirect, this plugin only allows them to redirect https to https.

As of now, all old http to https redirects STILL work even though the left side of the plugin switched all url's to a default HTTPS.  But my client is worried the next plugin update he will lose all http to https redirects.  While asking our programmer to add all 400 redirects to .htaccess, he states that's too many redirects and could slow down the website.  Well, we don't want to lose all 400 301's and jeopardize our SEO.

Question: what does everyone suggest as an alternative solution/plugin to redirect old http urls to https and future https to https urls?

Thank you all!

Ol8km

[TheSymmetran]

Because your CMS & SSL solution are not compatible in a nice way right now as you explained in detail.

My suggestion: ditch the crap plugin. Get you a cloudflare SSL, and setup your https and page rules properly and ball like a pro. You can try cloudflare for free just to play around with it and see what I mean, that will take care of all this. you can keep your redirects http > http and cloud flare can handle all http requests >> https by page rules and what not.

dig into it, I think this will help resolve your situation.

[Shawn124]

Thank you for the reply @sys_admin

We are using cloudflare as well and use the https redirection.  I didn't mention cloudflare earlier because i don't want to rely on a 3rd party to handle my redirects.

[TheSymmetran]

Have you reached out to plugin support people?