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1. PhilViles
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Is there a way I can redirect a URL to another URL when clicked upon?

   For example, I'm using Arthemia and have 5 categories selected in the 'Browse Category' section that runs across the middle of the index.php page. Ideally, I want these categories to link to pages. I thought I could use a redirect command to take, say, /thisisfootball/?cat=18 directly to /thisisfootball/?page_id=101 when clicked on.

   Is this possible?

   Many thanks,
   Phil

2. janecraft
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I'd love an answer to this as well. I am building a CMS and prefer to avoid the category pages (and the /category/ urls!) in my site. Is this possible? Is there a better way?

3. janecraft
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   After poking around, I've found the Redirection plugin works well. You can use it to redirect one URL at a time. I've done it globally with the help of the folks over at the plugin forum. When I click on the "products" category (for example), I wanted to land on the "products" page (/products/) rather than the products category archive listing (/category/products/). To do this, the source URL should be "/category/(.*)" (without the quote marks) and the target URL should be "/$1" (again, no quotes). This advice is lifted directly from Ricky Buchanan at the plugin forum here: http://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/please-expand-the-example-in-the-documentation-blog-1#comments. It worked beautifully.

4. othellobloke
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Janecraft... you could avoid the '/category' permalink by just changing the permalink in the admin area.

5. elemsee
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Jane's solution doesn't really address the problem of the Arthemia user who wants to redirect items in the horizontal categories module to pages instead. In my case, I want to link to sub-domains.

   Anyone know of any plugins or work-arounds that could help achieve this?

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