Simple 301 Redirects is the WordPress directory's deliberately minimal redirect plugin. Every rule (request path, destination URL) is one entry in the 301_redirects option, optionally with a 301_redirects_wildcard flag on a sibling option. The settings screen is a two-column form rendered straight from that array. There is no rules table, no logs, no hit counter, no per-rule status.

On a brochure site with twenty rules, that is exactly the right shape. On a site that quietly grew to twelve hundred rules across five years of migrations and editorial cleanups, the textarea becomes the audit surface, which is the moment the plugin stops scaling for the SEO lead asking how many wildcards exist or which destinations are absorbing most of the rules.

SleekView reads the same option, unpacks it into one row per rule, and renders the inventory as a real grid. Each row carries the source path, the destination, the wildcard flag, and the order in the option array. Saved filters do the rest: a view filtered to wildcard equals 1 surfaces the greedy patterns the team should review carefully, a view grouped by destination shows the homepage catch-alls and over-used hubs, and a view sorted by source alphabetically is the audit a migration contractor wants to take into the next system.

Simple 301 Redirects is intentionally minimal, and that is why it stays on so many WordPress sites for so many years. Minimalism scales right up until a site grows past the point where a two-column form is a reasonable interface, which on most marketing sites is somewhere around three hundred rules. By a thousand, the audit work is essentially impossible from the settings screen.

SleekView does not change the plugin, does not add a database table, does not touch the redirect path. It reads the option the plugin already writes and renders it as the sortable, filterable, exportable grid the audit always needed. The plugin stays simple; the audit stops being a textarea exercise.