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Redirect parent page to its first child

Filed under: WordPress/PHP— Tagged with: redirect, snippets

Redirecting from the parent page comes really handy, when you don't have actual need for the parent page, expect to group the subpages under it.

Make a new file called page-pagename.php or page-ID.php and paste the following into it.

if (have_posts()) {
  while (have_posts()) {
    the_post();
    $pagekids = get_pages("child_of=".$post->ID."&sort_column=menu_order");
    if ($pagekids) {
      if (!get_post_meta($post->ID, 'dont_redirect', true)) {
        $firstchild = $pagekids[0];
        wp_redirect(get_permalink($firstchild->ID));
      }
    }
  }
}

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