Title: A different need for redirection
Last modified: November 30, 2016

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# A different need for redirection

 *  [anoctave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoctave/)
 * (@anoctave)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-different-need-for-redirection/)
 * _[ Moderator note: [moved to How-to and Troubleshooting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wheres-my-topic-gone?replies=1&view=all).]_
 * After looking through the plugins on redirection, I see many good, but common
   reasons for redirction – mainly missing pages, changed urls, people typing a 
   misspelled url, etc. And while there are some special use redirects there isn’t
   a sufficient description for me to know if they would help me.
 * Here’s my situation. I have a static site. There are only two areas of the site
   that have constant alterations or additions, so I decided to create blog for 
   just those two sections. The one problem I have is that the blog url will have
   a link to the front page of the blog in the masthead. I want to bypass the blog
   front page and return to home page of the static site.
 * Here’s what I mean:
    The static site url is mysite.com the blog site url is mysite.
   com/wp/
 * I need a redirect so that a user who visits the blog will return to the static
   site automatically if they click on the masthead.
 * A plug-in to do that would help a lot of people who want to mix and match static
   and blog sites

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 *  [staartmees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staartmees/)
 * (@staartmees)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-different-need-for-redirection/#post-8496399)
 * You really don’t need a plugin, some good old html will do the job. Simply make
   a child theme, place header.php in your child theme and make the necessary changes
   so the masthead redirects to your static site.
 *  Thread Starter [anoctave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoctave/)
 * (@anoctave)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-different-need-for-redirection/#post-8497955)
 * Thanks for that information. I always knew that I could put the actual url in
   the header (that’s what I have in my static site). The problem is that I don’t
   know PHP and, so, have trouble deciphering which piece of code I need. (The only
   mention of url in this code seems to point to the url of the background image)
 * I’ve added the code between the header tags. If someone could point me to the
   code that needs to be changed or eliminated, I would greatly appreciate that.
   It would be easier just to put the actual url I want to point to. Many thanks.
 *     ```
         <header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">
   
           <div class="header-bg" style="background-color: <?php echo esc_attr(get_theme_mod( 'header_bgcolour', '#ffffff' )); ?>; background-image: url(<?php if (get_header_image() != '') : ?><?php header_image(); ?>
       	<?php endif; ?>);">
   
               <div class="site-branding">  
                   <?php get_template_part( 'template-parts/logo-group' ); ?> 
       		<!***  added images  ***>
   
   
   
               </div><!-- .site-branding -->
   
               <nav id="site-navigation" class="site-navigation primary-navigation" role="navigation">
                   <div class="toggle-container visible-xs visible-sm hidden-md hidden-lg">
                     <button class="menu-toggle"><?php esc_html_e( 'Menu', 'emphasize' ); ?></button></div>
   
                   <?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'primary' ) ) {																			
                           wp_nav_menu( array( 							
                               'theme_location' => 'primary', 
                               'menu_class' => 'nav-menu'
   
                           ) ); } else {
   
                           wp_nav_menu( array(															
                               'container' => '',
                               'menu_class' => '',
                               'title_li' => ''							
                               ));							
                          } 
                       ?>                    
                 </nav> 
                 </div>
           <!div id="header-footer"><!/div>    
   
           <?php if( get_theme_mod( 'hide_shadow' ) == '') { ?>
       		<?php // If no banners are published - display the header shadow
                   if (  ! is_active_sidebar( 'full-banner'  )) 	
                   echo '<div id="shadow"><img src="' . esc_url( get_template_directory_uri() ) . '/images/shadow.png" alt="shadow"/></div>';	
               ?>
            <?php } ?>
   
           </header>  
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [anoctave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anoctave/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-different-need-for-redirection/#post-8497955)
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