wp-redirect

Once you’re in the template it’s too late, as headers have already been sent. You have to hook earlier in the request to check, like the template redirect hook: add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘wpse52455_redirect’ ); function wpse52455_redirect(){ // do your check and call wp_redirect here } Note that this will get called on every request, so you … Read more

You can only use wp_redirect before content is sent to the browser. If you were to enable php debugging you’d see a “headers already sent” error due to get_header() on the first line. Rather than process the form in the template, you can hook an earlier action, like wp_loaded, and save some queries to the … Read more