{"id":1000,"date":"2010-02-09T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2012-12-23T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:45:30","slug":"simple-page-or-section-redirect-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/09\/simple-page-or-section-redirect-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple page or section redirect in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently we had a chance to re-code the old client site: Graniti-Su\u0161ec<\/a>. The site was first developed back in 2003. and was in fact the first commercial (non-personal) site done with web standards in Croatia.<\/p>\n

At that time I was much more involved with ASP 2.0 and merely heard about PHP<\/abbr>. But since then \u2014 my focus shifted far, far away from ASP, and we decided not to fix the ancient codebase, but to move the backend to WordPress.<\/p>\n

With the migration, we had to take care about the new URL<\/abbr> scheme. The language part of the previous scheme was a full-length language name and therefore clumsy. The transition had to be seamless, and we had to make sure not to cut-off visitors landing to the website from Google.<\/p>\n

The solution was quite simple. Each page was organized as a child page of one of two parent pages: \/hr\/<\/code> and \/en\/<\/code>. We created two additional first-level pages with slugs corresponding to the old language URL<\/abbr> parts \u2014 \/hrvatska\/<\/code> and \/english\/<\/code> \u2014 and set a template for both pages to “Page Redirect”. This is how it\u2019s done step by step:<\/p>\n

Step 1: Create a page template<\/h2>\n

In your WordPress theme folder create a new blank file: page-redirect.php<\/code>, paste in the code below and save it. Make sure that there\u2019s no space left before <?php<\/code> or after ?><\/code> or it might throw an error.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<?php \r\n\/* \r\nTemplate Name: Page Redirect \r\n*\/ \r\n    header('HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); \r\n\r\n    $redirect_url = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'redirect_url', true); \r\n\r\n    if (!empty($redirect_url)) { \r\n        header('Location: ' . $redirect_url); \r\n    } else { \r\n        header('Location: \/'); \r\n    } \r\n?><\/pre>\n
<\/code><\/p>\n
Step 2: Add a new page<\/h2>\n
Create a new page in WordPress (Pages \u00bb Add New), and paste the old URL<\/abbr> into Permalink<\/em> field \u2014 right below the title field.<\/p>\n
Step 3: Add a custom field<\/h2>\n
In the Custom Fields box, add a new custom field, named redirect_url<\/code> and set the value to match the new URL<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n
Step 4: Choose a page template<\/h2>\n
In the attribute box in WordPress (usually on the right hand side), there is the Templates drop-down. Select the “Page Redirect” option and hit Publish.<\/p>\n
Type the old URL<\/abbr> in the browser address bar, and it should be instantly redirected to the new URL<\/abbr>. WordPress will also automagically redirect all child pages, so in our example \/english\/marble\/<\/code> redirects to \/en\/marble\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n
I hope it helps, let me know if you have a different approach to a similar problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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