Is there some native facility for redirecting categories to external URLs? Customize >> Permalinks apparently does not support this use.

The following script achieves the intended result when added to via Customize: api.onPageChange(() => { if ( window.location.href === "https://omnifora.com/c/redirect-politifora" ) { window.location.replace( "https://politifora.com/" ); } });

Why would you redirect a category to an external URL? What’s the point of having the category if you only need a link?

To have the link displayed as a category without going through all the necessary CSS fiddling to do so without it simply being a category. The community where I’ll be doing this has a few related Discourse installs that each deal with a different set of topics; I want to more cleanly link them together by creating ‘categories’ that link from each site to each other site.

I briefly looked at doing this and it came down to two alternatives. Create the category with read only permissions for everyone and put the link into the ‘About this category’ page, maybe including a short paragraph why, like an ‘official’ external support site. Target and overwrite the link href in a theme component.

I was afraid it would come down to that or doing a rewrite at the server level. I think I may just go with the (somewhat questionable) JavaScript option.

So, related issue: I’ve now implemented a redirect (using JavaScript), but… it works only on refresh, which is clearly suboptimal. At any rate, here’s the code I’m using: $( document ).ready(function() { if ( window.location.href === "https://omnifora.com/c/redirect-politifora" ) { window.location.replace( "https://politifora.com/" ); } }); As should be obvious from the code, Omnifora is the primary site in this network and I am attempting to redirect a Politifora category on Omnifora to Politifora. I’ve already eliminated caching (browser, server, Cloudflare) as a potential culprit. Is there some quirk in Discourse that would cause this redirect not to trigger?

[image] Zyniker: Is there some quirk in Discourse that would cause this redirect not to trigger? Yes, being a single-page-app the page only loads once, subsequent loads just replace the page contents. There is a page change API you can hook into: [image] How do you force a script to refire on every page load in Discourse? Development I think you can use the PluginAPI onPageChange function to do what you are looking for. See: Using the PluginAPI in Site Customizations Here’s an example function: api.onPageChange(() =>{ randBackground(); }); function randBackground() { $('body').css('background-color', '#'+(Math.random()*0xFFFFFF Update: If you are looking to apply similar changes to post bodies, see post…

I’m sure this is the right way to accomplish the redirect, but I am not sure how to write the necessary code. I’ve tried the following and neither seems to work: api.onPageChange((url) => { var targeturl = 'https://politifora.com/'; if ( url === '/c/redirect-politifora' ) { $(location).attr('href',targeturl); } }); and api.onPageChange((url) => { if ( url === '/c/redirect-politifora' ) { window.location.replace( 'https://politifora.com/' ); } });

if you wanted a redirect this is the way to do it api.onPageChange((url) => { if (url.includes('/c/redirect-politifora')) { window.location.replace('https://politifora.com/'); } }); however this is kinda slow and won’t run until the page has finished loading, which means users will still see the redirect category. i tried a second way, which is using jQuery to replace the links on the index or anywhere else this category appears. api.onPageChange(() => { $(function(){ $('a[href*="/c/redirect-politifora').attr( 'href', 'https://politifora.com/' ); }); }); with this you don’t need a redirect, because it modifies href attribute of every redirect-politiflora link in place.

Perhaps I’m missing something, but I tried each of those solutions (both imported from an external .js and dropped in as a customization) and was unable to get either one to work.

where are you inserting them, and do you have the correct script tags around them

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Zyniker (Corey J. Mahler) April 26, 2018, 1:48am 13

Is there some specific version of the API I should be using for this?

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