plugins redirect to settings

what version of WP are you on?

redirect remains after plugin uninstall

After uninstall there is no code from the plugin to be able to do any redirect.

This sounds like caching issue, either in your browser or server.

First try logging in via a private browser tab.

Version 6.5.2

On install it redirects from plugins to your settings page.

I assumed once I saved it would stop doing this but it never did, so I uninstalled and then had to clear local storage

ok seems you may have an issue with your set up / local storage. As once redirected it sets user meta so that it doesn’t do that any more, but if it dies it seems that user meta was not being stored.

if after uninstall it was still doing that that would be most strange as the code doesn’t get loaded by WP so that seems your local storage thinks the plugin is still active.

im pointing this out as the plugin only uses standard WP functions and no ‘tricks’ like some may e.g. updating .htaccess, and so if you are experiencing issues with these functions then other parts of your WP will or may be impacted.

can you tell me who your host is and if you are using any optimization plugins, especially cache or object cache.

Please can you confirm or not, that you are using Redis Object Cache?

No Redis

Advanced Custom Fields PRO Version 6.2.9 by WP Engine | Auto-updates enabled
Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster Version 1.3.9.3 by Gabe Livan | Auto-updates disabled
Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater Version 4.4 by Arun Basil Lal | Auto-updates enabled
Better image sizes Version 3.6 by KubiQ | Auto-updates disabled
Canonical Attachments Version 1.7 by Jake Bohall -- @hivedigital, @jblifestyles | Auto-updates disabled
Classic Editor Version 1.6.3 by WordPress Contributors | Auto-updates enabled
Contact Form 7 Version 5.9.3 by Takayuki Miyoshi | Auto-updates disabled
CookieYes | GDPR Cookie Consent Version 3.2.2 by CookieYes | Auto-updates disabled
Email Log Version 2.4.9 by Sudar | Auto-updates enabled
IndexNow Version 1.0.2 by Microsoft Bing (Latest version: 1.0.3) | Auto-updates disabled
Intuitive Custom Post Order Version 3.1.5 by hijiri | Auto-updates disabled
Performance Lab Version 3.0.0 by WordPress Performance Team | Auto-updates disabled
Redirection for Contact Form 7 Version 3.1.2 by Qube One Ltd. | Auto-updates disabled
Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP Version 1.30 by Magazine3 | Auto-updates enabled
Simple 301 Redirects Version 2.0.9 by WPDeveloper | Auto-updates enabled
Wordfence Security Version 7.11.5 by Wordfence | Auto-updates enabled
WP-Optimize - Clean, Compress, Cache Version 3.3.2 by David Anderson, Ruhani Rabin, Team Updraft | Auto-updates enabled
WP Mail SMTP Version 4.0.1 by WP Mail SMTP | Auto-updates disabled
Yoast Duplicate Post Version 4.5 by Enrico Battocchi & Team Yoast | Auto-updates enabled
Yoast SEO Version 22.5 by Team Yoast | Auto-updates enabled

Are you still willing to help work out what is happening? Is it still redirecting ‘after install’ ( technically not possible from our code but could be related to one of the other plugins like teh redirection plugin or optimze plugin )

If so the hnxt steps I would suggest is trying https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/ top go through a process of plugin / theme elemination – the good things about this plugin is it doesn’t impact your front end users.

Just FYI the current version has had all redirects removed, I assume that your problem is fixed, if not you need to investigate a different reason.