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1. jjtarabay
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   In WordPress, I want to be able to have a page on the navigation, but I don't want to have it go to a custom page. I want to send it to a link that is not in wordpress. So I created a page, the URL is something like ?page_id=12 and I want to send it to something like http://wordpress.com/whatever.htm/ I edited the MySQL database to try to accomplish this, but it didn't work. I went to the wp_posts table and went to guid and edited the URL. There was no effect on WordPress at all. I was wondering if there is something I have to do to make WordPress read the change to the database or if there is another (more simple) way to do this that I have overlooked. Thank you.

2. bookchiq
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I usually just hard-code the link into the template file (assuming it's a long term thing).

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   [[Plugins]]. Always look for plugins :)
   http://www.redalt.com/downloads/ > Redirectify
   or
   http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=310 > Redirect

4. jjtarabay
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   How do you do that? For example, in the admin, I click Create A New Page, isn't all that information in the database? When I go to the database, I see the page content and everything in there. If you go to http://tarabay.info You will see the Pages at the top, if I wanted to make games go to another page on the internet, how could I do that? Thanks...

5. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   You start by grabbing one of those plugins and reading the accompanying instructions. :-)

6. jjtarabay
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   LoL acutally I posted that before moshu posted the plugin post. I know how to install plugins. Thanks, I didn't think to look for a plugin to do that. I guess it seemed to simple and I was making it too hard. Thanks for the help.

7. jjtarabay
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Ok, I have an issue. I installed the CD-Redirect Plug-in, its active. But when I put <redirect http://www.chait.net /> Then I click the link, all that comes up is:

   OK
   The document has moved here.

   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at http://www.tarabay.info Port 80

   I tried the other plugin, but the documentation said it has to point to a file within the wordpress root a dir in the wordpress root. So I can't use that one. Any ideas? If not, I could post on the plug-in website.

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I tried the other plugin, but the documentation said it has to point to a file within the wordpress root a dir in the wordpress root. So I can't use that one.

   That's not true.

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