Redirect category to first available child post

1 comment

1. I had to do that, but only in some categories in my site.
   This was the code I used – I put it in my theme’s functions.php:

     // use template_redirect action:
    add_action( 'template_redirect', 'my_redirect_to_post' );
   
    /// Function to redirect from certain category pages to first post of those categories
    function my_redirect_to_post() {
        if (is_category('3') ||  is_category('5') ) {
            $category = get_the_category();
            $posts =  query_posts('showposts=1&cat='.$category[0]->cat_ID);
            if(have_posts()) :
               wp_redirect(get_permalink($post->ID));
            endif;
       }
   }
   

   Of course, if you need to do it in all your categories, you can remove the condition if (is_category('3') || is_category('5') ).

   Log in to Reply