Redirect WordPress Registration Page To BBpress Registration Page

[Mitz]

I wanted people to be able to register for the bbpress forum but not for my WordPress blog so I needed to redirect the WordPress register page to the bbpress registration page.

So this is what I did to redirect WordPress registration page to my own custom page.

I placed the following code into my functions.php file in my child theme. This was in my WordPress dashboard, in appearance, editor, funtions.php. Please copy the contents of the file to a notepad before editing. that way if you make a mistake you can paste the code back into the funtions.php on your server.

/**
 * RedirectWPRegister()
 * Redirect from Default wordpress register page to custom regsiter page.
 */
function RedirectWPRegister(){
    $request = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    if ($request == 'wp-login.php?action=register'):
        wp_redirect(site_url('/registernow'));
        exit();
            endif;
}
 
add_filter('init', 'RedirectWPRegister');

I got this code from here but took out the php tags.

I also changed the wp_redirect(site_url(‘/register-forum‘)); to my page I want people to go to.

I have a Genesis framework using eleven40pro child theme and bbpress.

Now when someone tries to go to the normal register page for WordPress which is wp-login.php?action=register they will be directed to the forum login page.

the reason I did this was because I wanted to enable registration on bbpress but did not want it for my WordPress site. So I have no login links, but if they are smart enough to find it then they will be redirected to the right page.

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Mitz from Tips4pc

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