Magento Redirect Category link to CMS page, CMS page in Top menu by URL rewrite management

Sometime I have to add article content page and external url in Magento’s top navigation menu. This can be done without using any third-party extension. I have my own menu extension ready for any projects but when menu is not complex and all themes styling are ready for default navigation I use default Navigation.

Magneto have a built-in way to Add any URL in to Magento’s default catalog category top navigation.

Here is how it works:

There is some features in admin panel’s Catalog -> URL rewrite management to work with urls generated by magento when we are adding products, category etc.  I use this to point a category url to cms-page or any.

Lets say I want to add “Home” and “Contact Us” in top menu.
And “Home” is a CMS page which have url /home and “Contact Us” is the default contact form in /contacts

Step 1:
Create Category “Home” and “Contact” (Yes, Category)
from admin Catalog -> ‘Manage Categories’ and keep note of both category ids
make sure thus categories are visible in front-end top menu.

Step 2:
Go to admin Catalog-> ‘URL Rewrite Management’. Find entries for thus categories.
to do that look for entries here with ID Path category/55 and category/56 (put your category ids here, my id for contact category is 55 and 56)
And click on entries and set Redirect to Permanent

Step 3:
Go to Catalog-> ‘URL Rewrite Management’
for “Contact Us” menu item
Click ‘Add URL Rewrite’
Select “Create URL Rewrite:” drop-down to “Custom”
Then enter “ID Path”: category/55 or anything without space (this may be not available in Magento EE),
Enter category url in “Request Path”: catalog/category/view/id/55 (put your category id instead of 55),
Enter the url where you want to redirect in “Target Path”: contacts
Select “Redirect”: permanent
then click “Save”.

Now Add another URL rewrite
for the “Home” menu item
Click ‘Add URL Rewrite’
Select “Create URL Rewrite:” to “Custom”
ID Path: category/56 or anything without space (this is just an identifier)
Request Path: catalog/category/view/id/55
Target Path: home (or any CMS page url)
Redirect: permanent
then Save

To change order of thus two menu items, you can always category tree

That’s it.
let me know if it works for you 😛