Five Star Business Profile and Schema vs Redirection
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| Feature | Five Star Business Profile and Schema v2.5.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details | Redirection v5.10.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.4/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7,000+ | 2M+ |
| Last updated | October 22, 2026 | September 19, 2026 |
| Editions | Five Star Business Profile and Schema · Five-Star Business Profile premium ($) | Redirection |
| Pros | Contact card with opening hours and map link; schema.org structured data from the same business details; Works with WooCommerce product data for product schema | Free, with no paid edition; Regular expression and conditional redirects; Logs 404 errors and can redirect changed permalinks |
| Cons | Premium features need a separate premium licence; Map links rely on Google Maps; Schema output is only as good as the details entered | Adds its own database tables and logs that grow over time; Apache and Nginx module options need server-side setup; Large plugin with many screens for simple redirect needs |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| Features (SEO plugins checklist) | ||
| Schema markup | Yes | No |
| XML sitemaps | No | No |
| Redirects | No | Yes |
| Local SEO | Yes | No |
| WooCommerce | Yes | No |
| AI content | No | No |
| Free version | Yes | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Contact card shortcode and block, Opening hours in the contact card and schema, Schema output per post type, Premium capability gate for paid features ($), Publication checks on structured data output | Redirect manager with groups, Regular expression and conditional matches, 404 error logging, Automatic redirect on permalink change, Import and export of redirects, Apache and Nginx file modules |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | — | Yoast SEO, Simple 301 Redirects |
| Other | Google Maps | WP CLI |
| Requires WordPress | 5.3 | 6.7 |
| Requires PHP | — | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| Blocks | 1 | — |
| Shortcodes | 1 | — |
| Custom tables | — | 4 |