Hi, I would like to redirect /tag/offer to tags/c/trading-post/18/offer. Is such a thing possible? I tried in Customize → Permalinks, but it didn’t work.

That’s a pretty cool idea. Why are you wanting to redirect to that url?

On my forum, I need tags only for 2 categories, and each category will have its own tag. A trade category will have search and offer tags. A other language category will have several language tags, such as russian, hebrew… These tags won’t be available for any other category. My use of tags is t…

The correct solution would be if core would not show tags of restricted tag groups in the global drop down (or even better and more flexible an option should be made available per category/tag group to exclude them from showing up in the global drop downs). Has been raised before.

[image] Stephen: Permalinks refer to incoming links from external urls I have vague memories of us improving this so it works for internal links too? I’m not sure. Do you remember @techAPJ ?

Permalinks do work for internal links. For example here is a howto for setting up category redirection: [image] (Superseded) Redirect a category using permalink rules Site Management warning Please Note Discourse now automatically redirects renamed categories.…

[image] techAPJ: Permalinks do work for internal links But they don’t work for internal links that are already valid. So a permanlink only works to redirect /tag/offer to tags/c/trading-post/18/offer if there is no offer tag created. For cases where the tag already exists, no solution has be…

Redirect a tag page to a custom URL?

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Stephen (Stephen) September 19, 2020, 1:57am 2

Permalinks refer to incoming links from external urls, not links within the application.

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