Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Howto forward a WordPress Page to an external URL!!!
Sometimes we may need to forward a WordPress page to an external link/page… Since there is no option to do this in the page itself you have to use a page template, this is the way to do it…
- Lets say i want to forward it to twitter..
Create a file lets call it re-twitter.php with the text below and save it to your theme folder (/public_html/wp-content/themes/<yourtheme>/re-twitter.php)
<?php /* Template Name: Redirect Twitter */ header('Location: http://twitter.com/itsAnimesh'); die(); ?>If you plan on making more redirects the file name starting in redirect will ensure they all stay together.
- Create the page, and choose the ‘Template Name’ Twitter Redirect.
- Save, done, test, done.
NOTE : If you change your theme you’ll have to move the redirect page templates…
I know there are plug-ins for this but i like this way better than using plug-ins or playing around with .htaccess. 
At least on a current WordPress system (I tested on the hosted version at wordpress.com) this info seems to be rather outdated. WordPress can do it on its own:
Create a custom menu, and combine WordPress pages and external pages (“Custom Links”) in it as you like.