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Sue Adams
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May 26, 2015 at 3:47 pm
We have our Registration site with two separate events: Attendee Registration 2015 and Vendor Registration 2015. The current link (friendly url) is: http://register.ilapsc.org/events/attendee-registration-2015/ We have a site that links to register.ilapsc.org from a page that provides all of the details for our events, so we prefer that the register.ilapsc.org have a default home page link of a non friendly url that we could use. For example something like AttendeeRegistration.html. Is it possible to use a non friendly url for a link to the attendee registration page? We don’t mind if the friendly url is what shows up once they get there, we just need to set up something on our server so that when someone goes to register.ilapsc.org, it takes them directly to the default page of Attendee Registration.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 26, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Hi Sue, for registration purposes the URL will need to remain as it once the registrant/attendee is ready to begin their registration (on single event page where they select an option and begin registration).
However, if you need to perform some tracking before then you can use a custom URL with the understanding that the end URL should be the actual URL for the event.
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Lorenzo
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Sue Adams
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May 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm
I’m not sure what you’re saying. But let me rephrase what I’m trying to do. We have our main site ilapsc.org where we have a page called Conference Registration that talks about everything pertaining to the conference. From that page we have a link to http://register.ilapsc.org that has the text “Click here to register”. We could very easily make the url for that text take them to http://register.ilapsc.org/events/attendee-registration-2015/ and that’s fine. My concern is that someone would bookmark the url register.ilapsc.org somehow and when they go there they would see “It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.” Granted the links to Attendee and Vendor Registration are on the left side, but these days not all users are that intelligent. I’m afraid they would leave the site.
I believe what you’re telling me is that we’re better off creating a landing page. If that is the case, I assume that I would create that page via “Pages” in wordpress. But how does the site know which of the pages I create is the landing page.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 26, 2015 at 4:26 pm
Hi,
You could use a plugin like Redirection to create custom links. Then you could add those links to your websites navigation menu.
If they bookmark those links, then they’ll always end up at the current link since you’ll be able to change those links via Redirection as needed.
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Lorenzo
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