How Do I Redirect a Previous Page in WordPress?

If you have visited a page on your site that you no longer want to visit, you can redirect users to a different page by editing the WordPress database. To do this, you will need to know the ID of the page you want to redirect to. You can find this information in the URL of the page:

https://example.com/page-with-ID

To redirect a user to a different page, you will first need to find the ID of the page you want to redirect to. To do this, you can use the URL bar on your browser and append the ID of the page you want to redirect to after the example.com domain.

For example, if you wanted to redirect a user to the page with the ID of my-page, you would enter https://example.com/my-page.

Once you have the ID of the page you want to redirect to, you will need to open up the WordPress database and find the record for that page. To open up the database, you can use the WordPress command line interface (CLI).

To do this, you will need to have the correct user permissions and have the WordPress database installed on your computer. You can find instructions on how to install the WordPress database on the WordPress site.

Once you have the database open, you will need to find the record for the page you want to redirect to. To do this, you will need to use the WordPress query language (LQL). LQL is a special language used by the WordPress database to query the database. To use LQL, you will need to know the name of the table from which you want to retrieve data.

The name of the table for pages is page_metadata. To find the name of the table, you will need to use the WordPress function get_page_metadata(). The full syntax for the get_page_metadata function is as follows:.

get_page_metadata( $page_id );

The $page_id is the ID of the page you want to query. Once you have the name of the table from which you want to retrieve data, you can use the get_page_metadata function to find the record for the page you want to redirect to.

In the example above, the get_page_metadata function would be used to find the record for the page with the ID of my-page.

Once you have the record for the page you want to redirect to, you will need to use the WordPress function update_page_redirect(). The update_page_redirect function will update the record for the page with the ID of the page you want to redirect to with the new URL. The syntax for the update_page_redirect function is as follows:

update_page_redirect( $page_id, $url );

The $page_id is the ID of the page you want to redirect to.

The $url is the new URL you want to use to redirect the user.