This template lets you specify a single URL as the page content, then as the page loads, the template automatically redirects the page to this new location.

Usage

Once you’ve uploaded the template-redirect.php file to your themes… sub-directory, i.e. wp-content/themes/theme_name/

1 – Create a new Page in your Wordpress control panel

2 – In the Page Content panel, just enter the URL (or local path) you want to redirect to:

3 – Set the Page Template dropdown to “Page Redirect”:

That’s it!

Note that in Wordpress 2.7 and later, you will need to do a little additional setup work to display the page template dropdown (don’t ask me why).

See this link for further details.

Examples

Examples of URLS might be:

• category/flowers (a relative link to the permalink for “flowers”)
• ../page.html (a page outside of a Wordpress subfolder (the WP folder being /blog/) but still in your site)
• http://www.davestewart.co.uk/resources/ (a page on a completely different site)

The “Latest developments…” page in my sidebar automatically redirects to /category/development/ – or in other words, the archive for my “Development” category, as my home page is not the standard “last-post first” format.

Download

template-redirect.zip