A redirect is a message the web server sends the client telling it that the page requested is temporarily moved. I’ll be using this when making web pages a bit especially when I need to point to content that is on an older server like Roxen. That way, I can go ahead and create the site, but users can still find the content. When I’m done, I can switch it back.

I needed to generalize the redirect function from the AUTC landing page to any page that was entered in a WordPress custom field. In order to get this to work, do the following:

Make the custom field name "Redirect" and make the value of the field the location the redirect should go to.

The second step is to select the correct page template:

Done.