Hey all!
Some of my posts need to redirect to outside pages (and maintain their utm codes), so I added a “redirect” field in ACF. At the top of my single post page I added the following code, but it gets stuck in a redirect loop:
<?php if( get_field('redirect') ): ?>
<?php
$url = the_field('redirect');
?>
<?php
header("Location: $url?". $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], true, 301);
exit;
?>
<?php endif; ?>
What am I doing wrong? I have verified that the “redirect” field is populating correctly, and it works fine if I replace $url with a static url, but I need it to go to the url specified in the custom field. Help please!
You are doing this outside the loop, so you need to supply the post id I think.
<?php
$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$post_id = $queried_object->ID;
if( get_field('redirect', $post_id) ): ?>
<?php
$url = the_field('redirect', $post_id);
?>
<?php
header("Location: $url?". $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], true, 301);
exit;
?>
<?php endif; ?>
Hmm, still stuck in redirect hell.
Could the problem have anything to do with the fact that I’m using a dynamic ACF value as the url, rather than a static “http://mysite.gov/”?
As long as it’s a valid URL is should be working, I’ve used dynamic values in redirects often. Are you sure that the field is returning a valid URL? I think you said it was, but I just want to check. Before the redirect have you tried.
echo $url,'?',$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; exit;
because the code really does look correct so the only problem would have to be the url being used.
Yep, echo shows the correct URL.
okay, so I overlooked something simple earlier
you are using $url = the_field()
It should be $url = get_field()
<?php
$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$post_id = $queried_object->ID;
if( get_field('redirect', $post_id) ): ?>
<?php
$url = get_field('redirect', $post_id);
?>
<?php
header("Location: $url?". $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], true, 301);
exit;
?>
<?php endif; ?>
BOOM! It works. Thank you so much!
Sometimes I miss the easy stuff. You read what you expect to see…
Hello John,
I noticed that the code above only works for certain pages. What if I wanted to redirect all of my posts to the custom fields link?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, my bad it does works xD
Hello guys, buy using this code, is there a way that I can open this in new tab? Thanks
