Reply To: How to create wildcard redirects using wp_redirect

[Alen]

@klmnweb I’ve tested following locally and it works. I didn’t have bbpress installed but I replicated the URL structure by creating sub pages. /forums/, /forums/user and /forums/user/jamie

add_action('init','redirect_edit_user_link');

function redirect_edit_user_link() {
    if ( current_user_can('publish_posts') ) {
        if ( strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/forums/user/') !== false ) {
            wp_redirect('/developers');
            exit;
        }
    }
}

While above code works, I would still make the redirect at server level. Why bother processing PHP. Following will redirect ex: /forums/user/adam to /developers/adam.

# Apache
RedirectMatch 301 /forums/user/(.*) /developers/$1

# Nginx
location ~ /forums/user/(.*) {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /developers/$1 redirect;
}

Hope that helps, Alen.