Question

I need to redirect a single WordPress URL that is formatted like this: www.bluewidgets.com/?p=123 to a clean URL on another domain. How can I do this via .htaccess? All of the tutorials I’ve seen say that I need to specify another part of the url, like index.php, before the query string, but my URL doesn’t have one – it’s just the domain and then the query string.

Answer 1

Can’t you just add to the header.php, before anything else:

<?php
if ($_GET['p'] == '123') {
    header('Location:http://www.yourotherdomain.com');
exit;
}
?>

I’ve done something similar in the past. It may not be pretty, but it works – I’d be interested to hear from more experienced PHP-ers whether it’s a legitimate tactic.