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Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
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Posted by Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

Sharing a solution for unnecessary 'single-slug.php' pages in ACF, when using post type as a slider.

So, this got a bit more complicated that I thought it would.

Firstof all I was happy with 

<?php 
    header( 'location:' . site_URL() );
?>

But I quickly got annoyed of being redirected to a page where the banner didn't reside. So I only ever had 2 categories per slider. One of them, where needed, was always going to be a vendor the other was either 'slider' or 'home'. Or if neither where a vednor then the homepage would need to be chosen.

Here is my solution

<?php
    function string_to_slug($varOld) {
        $varNew = trim( strtolower( $varOld ) );
        $varNew = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/', '', $varNew);
        $varNew = str_replace(' ', '-', $varNew);
        return $varNew;
    }
    // builds category array
    $c = get_the_category();
    $d = string_to_slug( $c[0]->cat_name );
    $e = string_to_slug( $c[1]->cat_name );
    if ( $d == 'home' && $e != 'slider' ) {
        header( 'location: ' . site_URL() . '/vendor/' . $e );
        exit;

    } elseif ($d != 'home' && $e == 'slider') {
        header( 'location: ' . site_URL() . '/vendor/' . $d );
        exit;

    } else {
        header( 'location: ' . site_URL() );
    }
?>

What do you think? :)

1 Answer