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Huh. Just did some digging into the plugin’s code and it appears that by design it hides the “Plugins” menu below the site name from WP admin screens via an “if” call. That seems counter to my needs as a site admin, so I just commented out if(!is_admin()) and now the menus are there!

I humbly recommend my solution be the default setting, with maybe a settings option for admins to hide the menu from admins if they so choose.

Hi John, thanks for the reply!

I meant that putting a category ID as the target *DID* work last week (prior to v3) but now it *doesn’t* work any more. Now it’s even more of a mystery that you say that functionality hasn’t existed for a long time.

Anyway, doing a “deep dive” into your plugin code at redirection-front.php I found replace_special_tags() at…

/**
 * From the distant Redirection past. Undecided whether to keep
 */

…that could be changed/amended to…

public function replace_special_tags($url)
	{
	if(is_numeric($url))
		{
		$postUrl = get_permalink($url);

		if(!empty($postUrl)) { $url = $postUrl; }
		else
			{
			$catUrl = get_category_link($url);

			if(!empty($catUrl)) { $url = $catUrl; }
			else
				{
				$wooCatUrl = get_term_link($url,'product_cat');

				if(!empty($wooCatUrl)) { $url = $wooCatUrl; }
				else
					{
					$eventCatUrl = get_term_link($url,'tribe_events_cat');

					if(!empty($eventCatUrl)) { $url = $eventCatUrl; }
					}
				}
			}
		}
	else
		{
		$user = wp_get_current_user();

		if(!empty($user))
			{
			$url = str_replace( '%userid%', $user->ID, $url );
			$url = str_replace( '%userlogin%', isset( $user->user_login ) ? $user->user_login : '', $url );
			$url = str_replace( '%userurl%', isset( $user->user_url ) ? $user->user_url : '', $url );
			}
		}

	return $url;
	}

Using the code above should give your plugin the ability to convert category IDs into valid Target URLs. (I’m sure there’s a more elegant way of including custom category taxonomies than manually but that’s beyond me.)

Or if you could give me an idea how to hook replace_special_tags() from within my theme’s functions.php that would be cool too!

Sorry @keltrian I thought you were the plugin developer. After digging it appears that differentiating between ARCHIVE and CATEGORY *does* exist, but it’s a premium (paid) option.