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I have a category archive page at:

It displays an archive of items from the category 'news-article'

I'd like to redirect any requests for to (so that the former is never directly accessible).

Is there a best practice? Should I put a 301 Redirect in my .htaccess file (or use a plugin to do the same)?

Or should I use wp_safe_redirect? If yes, which action hook should I use? As in:

add_action( 'WHICH_ACTION_HOOK??', 'adam_redirect_news' );
function adam_redirect_news () {
    if ( is_category( 'news-article' ) ) {

        wp_safe_redirect( '' );
        exit;
    }
}

I have a category archive page at: http://mysite.com/news

It displays an archive of items from the category 'news-article'

I'd like to redirect any requests for http://mysite.com/category/news-article to http://mysite.com/news (so that the former is never directly accessible).

Is there a best practice? Should I put a 301 Redirect in my .htaccess file (or use a plugin to do the same)?

Or should I use wp_safe_redirect? If yes, which action hook should I use? As in:

add_action( 'WHICH_ACTION_HOOK??', 'adam_redirect_news' );
function adam_redirect_news () {
    if ( is_category( 'news-article' ) ) {

        wp_safe_redirect( 'http://mysite.com/news' );
        exit;
    }
}

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I don't know for some reason, the add_filter caused error. I used the following one:

function my_page_template_redirect()
{
    if ( is_category( 'news-articles' ) ) {
        $url = site_url( '/news' );
        wp_safe_redirect( $url, 301 );
        exit();
    }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'my_page_template_redirect' );

Thanks to @Layka above, I tweaked the code slightly and this does what I needed.

It could perhaps be any filter called around the same time - not sure.

/**
 * Redirect 'category/news-articles' category to 'News page' ( at http://www.example.com/news' )
 *
 */
add_filter('template_redirect', 'template_redirect_filter', 10, 3);
function template_redirect_filter( $url, $term, $taxonomy ) {

    if ( is_category( 'news-articles' ) ) {

        $url = site_url( '/news' );

        wp_safe_redirect( $url, 301 );

        exit;

    }

    return $url;

}

function template_category_template_redirect()
{
    if( is_category())
    {
        wp_redirect( site_url() );
        die;
    }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect','template_category_template_redirect' );

Another possible way is to have a custom template in your Child-Theme. According to the wordpress template hierarchy the file must be named category-news-article.php.

In this file you could do a redirect with wp_safe_redirect. e.g.

<?php
wp_safe_redirect('/news', 301, '');

With this approach only the category news-article will be redirected. All other category keep working as before. This might come in handy if you want to point each category to a different url. It also works with custom post type as well if your named the template according to the wordpress hierarchy (see link above).

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