how to make wordpress pages redirect to a totally different place

I have a website , installed in it wordpress blog , there is a menu in the header with pages inside the blog that i made ,,, anyway what if i needed to totally change where the user go when he clicks on that page (menu item) ?? permalink only allow you to edit the rest of the link not开发者_如何学Python the whole link !!

You can either use the function wp_safe_redirect() or you simply use some rewrites in your .htaccess with perform much faster as they don't have "to load" wordpress.

Even if the rewrites in the .htaccess would match a permalink you can use them by adding the [L] flag, e.g.:

RewriteRule wordpress/pagename$ some_other_page.php [L]

The [L] flag (last) will stop apache looking at the outher rules.

i just found the answer. Appearance=> menus => make new custom menu ... the theme should support custom menus though and in the settings of the theme i found (Check if you would like to use Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0.)

On a more generic note (if you don't have a custom menu), what I'd probably do is to create a custom page template for the pages that I want to redirect somewhere else, probably using Wordpress custom fields to specify what URL exactly.

Like Kau-Boy implied above, this is a bit slower because Wordpress has to load --- but if you've got "pages" that have to change regularly, this might be more convenient and familiar than .htaccess mods.