How to create wildcard redirects using wp_redirect

[Ayanize]

Hope I am getting the question right and understandable.

I am using bbpress which is creating the profile like this domain.com/forums/user/my-username and of course the URL changes with some other user.

Now, I want to implement a redirect for such URLs to another page. Not sure how I will do this using wp_redirect.

add_action ('init' , 'redirect_edit_user_link');

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

}

[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.

[Ayanize]

@Alen.. Thanks a lot.. You’re really a gem. I took the php way because I had some conditions for the redirect as you can. I wanted a specific user (in my site one custom role of shop_vendors) who has limited capabilities on the site but has also access to forums be redirected to a custom made profile page. And that’s why I was looking for the wp_redirect function. Your function worked very well. I just made one more addition to the condition and it worked like a charm.

Thank you once again.

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