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Right now I have a post type that generates a slug, e.g. http://url.com/l/abcd/ for each entry. I have a query in my 404.php that checks for http://url.com/abcd before output and redirects it if found in that post type "l"... What I'm wondering is, since 404.php will always send a 404 http header, is it not ok to do 301 inside 404.php (before any "output" starts)? It "works", but I suspect there is a better way...

Is it a bad idea to do a new rewrite_rule() for every slug in that post type? Is there a way to make post type "l" be top-level or checked "along with" page slugs?

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Sounds like you are doing it right. If you will add a rule per entry you will slow down the whole URL parsing, especially for pages.

About the 404. If you are actually redirecting, then it means that you don't send a 404 as there can be only one return code.

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i actually just did some trial and error and noticed that wp already 301's url.com/abcd to url.com/l/abcd automatically, so i guess i will just put the final destination redirect in the single-l.php template file. also, i noticed that on another site that i did this sort of redirect on 404.php before get_header() and then i use a 404 header check (404checker.com) i get 404 Not Found even though the actual redirect occurs... so that is what prompted my question here. – b747fp Feb 6 at 7:43
That is strange, do you have an example to a page that both returns 404 and redirect? – Mark Kaplun Feb 6 at 7:52

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