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Calling on fellow offliners | Wordpress Experts!! Need Help!

by ryanmckinney
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Not really a website question part of the forum, so I am asking fellow Offline Warriors for some help!

I have a website on a domain, www.mydomain.com , then I have a completely different website, installed on a directory on my domain, www.mydomain.com/directory

Each has the same template, but two different niches, if you will.

Both are wordpress.

My question is this: How do I make a page on each "website" where when you click on the page title at the top, it links directly to that directory, or just opens the other site up, so it looks like all the same site?

Instead of clicking on that page, to open a page, then have to click on a hyperlinked text on that page to get to the "other site"?

I had both sites built by someone else, but that person is unavailable for a while (damn holidays!).

I don't want to mess up what is in place, so calling on some website building savvy people on here!

Thanks in advance!

Ryan
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior Ben
    Hey Ryan,

    Try adding the following code under the HTML tab when you go to create a new page in WordPress:

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=web_address"/>

    Make sure to change web_address to the URL you want the page to go to.

    I hope this helps!

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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Z
    Hi Ryan,

    It sounds like you want the link in your menu navigation bar to take them to the other site.
    The problem is that to give you exact direction on how to add your link depends on how your site is set up since every site is different.

    If you are just customizing an html link it would be something like <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/directory">Menu Item Name</a>


    Or if you have custom menus set up in your theme it would work differently under the Menu link in WordPress.

    So it's hard to give the perfect answer without knowing how your site was constructed.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
    Thanks Ben, it was a no go :-(

    Jason, yeah, I am not really sure, like I said the guy who did it is on vacation (much needed I am sure) and I have NO clue how this was structured :-\

    I know how to make a page, and do an html link on that page to it, but I want the menu tab, when clicked to redir to that site..

    Thanks anyways guys!

    Ryan
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  • Profile picture of the author Warrior Ben
    Hmm... You might be able to change the .htaccess file to add a 301 redirect.

    Go to the your .htaccess file in the root directory where WordPress is installed and add in the following:

    redirect 301 /yourpage http://yourdomain.com/directory

    change "yourpage" to whatever the Page is that you have showing up in the Menu.

    I hope this makes sense...

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  • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
    Ben,

    Far advanced for me lol I will mess up something big time, I e-mailed the guy, Ill just have to wait a week or two , thanks though!

    Ryan
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    • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
      How about creating a custom menu? Appearance > Menus in the left-hand margin in your admin.
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      • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
        Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

        How about creating a custom menu? Appearance > Menus in the left-hand margin in your admin.
        Create the custom menu, ok..

        How do I make the page tab directly link over?
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        • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
          Originally Posted by ryanmckinney View Post

          Create the custom menu, ok..

          How do I make the page tab directly link over?
          I assume you need this link to appear in your main navigation menu. So

          In menus, select the Navigation tab, then custom links and enter the full URL to where you want the link to direct.

          You can then also select any additional pages you wish to display in the navigation menu. ('Home' usually appears by default, but if it doesn't, you can edit and add it as well).
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          • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
            Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

            I assume you need this link to appear in your main navigation menu. So

            In menus, select the Navigation tab, then custom links and enter the full URL to where you want the link to direct.

            You can then also select any additional pages you wish to display in the navigation menu. ('Home' usually appears by default, but if it doesn't, you can edit and add it as well).

            Thanks, I will try this out when I get home a little later on, you guys rock

            Ryan
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            • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
              Originally Posted by ryanmckinney View Post

              Thanks, I will try this out when I get home a little later on, you guys rock Ryan
              Do let me know if this solves your problem. It should do...
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              • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
                Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

                Do let me know if this solves your problem. It should do...

                I definitely will! I don't have access to it until I am home later, and it is the first thing I am going to try , it has been driving me crazy!
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                • Profile picture of the author sconlinemarketing
                  Add a plugin called page links to. On every page and post creation page it adds an option to redirect to a different url. Create a page with the tile you want linked to the other site and put that url as the redirect url. Now when someone clicks the link in your navigation bar they will go the the other site. It's very easy.
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                  • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
                    Originally Posted by sconlinemarketing View Post

                    Add a plugin called page links to. On every page and post creation page it adds an option to redirect to a different url. Create a page with the tile you want linked to the other site and put that url as the redirect url. Now when someone clicks the link in your navigation bar they will go the the other site. It's very easy.

                    Son-of-a! That easy .. sigh. Well, I will have to try this plugin out, thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanmckinney
    The plugin worked, thanks again

    Ryan
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