I build a website for a client of mine, that is going to continuously host events for his area.

One of the requirements he has is to expire and remove from the database the events already completed.

The events will belong to categories.

The question is, how I could redirect with 301 the search engines and the visitors to the parent category of each event?

So let's say we have the categories theater and concert.

If I have an even for theater, and the event is expired + removed from the DB, how can I make the redirect to the theater category for all the upcoming visitors?

Any idea?

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Update

What if I make a custom table to record the slugs of the events and the category IDs when an event is deleted, and then when I have a 404, to check the DB table for the requested slug and make a redirect using the category ID?

Could that solution be performant given that the site is going to host a few million of events?

I build a website for a client of mine, that is going to continuously host events for his area.

One of the requirements he has is to expire and remove from the database the events already completed.

The events will belong to categories.

The question is, how I could redirect with 301 the search engines and the visitors to the parent category of each event?

So let's say we have the categories theater and concert.

If I have an even for theater, and the event is expired + removed from the DB, how can I make the redirect to the theater category for all the upcoming visitors?

Any idea?

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Update

What if I make a custom table to record the slugs of the events and the category IDs when an event is deleted, and then when I have a 404, to check the DB table for the requested slug and make a redirect using the category ID?

Could that solution be performant given that the site is going to host a few million of events?

• taxonomy
• redirect
• 404-error

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Since I have less reputation I can't comment, this is not answered with code but wanted to help, you may check this plugin: https://wordpress/plugins/redirect-404-error-page-to-homepage-or-custom-page/ or just take required code from the plugin ( I am not connected with that plugin anyway )