[wp-hackers] Page Redirect from Shortcode

[Mike Little]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 14:17, Christopher Ross <cross at thisismyurl.com>wrote:

> Claude, I have a code snippet at
> http://thisismyurl.com/blog/2011/01/19/redirecting-a-wordpress-post-with-custom-fields/that will do it, although looking at it ... i should really update that so
> it's better.
>
> Here's a better function for your functions.php file that will fire before
> WordPress generates the page.
>
> ....
>
> Now, add a custom field to your Post named "redirect" and if it's present,
> it'll cause a redirect.
>


In a similar vein, but without your client needing to add a custom field
(which is difficult for non-technical users), here is an update of Owen
Winkler's old Redirectify plugin which presents a meta box to type the URL
into.
http://pastebin.com/E9pH2rSW

I've kept it as simple as possible, hopefully you'll be able to follow the
code.


Mike

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