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Page Links To

About

Page Links To is a plugin that allows you to make certain WordPress pages or posts link to a URI of your choosing, instead of their WordPress page or post URI. It also will redirect people who go to the old (or “normal”) URI to the new one, using a redirect style of your choosing (302 Moved Temporarily is standard, but you can enable 301 Moved Permanently redirects i f you wish.)

For instance, say you have a photo gallery installed, but can’t be bothered to integrate it into WordPress. You’ll still probably want to have a link to it from your WordPress blog. With this plugin you can create a new page called “Photos,” and give it a Custom Field links_to with the value being the URI to your photo gallery. “Photos” will show up when you use wp_list_pages();, but instead of linking to the (blank) “Photos” page, it will link you your photo gallery!

Another usage scenario is that you have content that was on a post, and want to move it to a page. You could redirect the post to the new page. And if you use a 301 redirect, search engines will eventually “find” the new location and change their links.

This plugin uses only two simple MySQL queries, no matter how many total pages or links_to enabled pages you have, so you don’t have to worry about scalability.

Usage

To redirect a page or a post, scroll down to the “Custom Fields” section on the edit screen for that entry and enter in a key of links_to with the value being the full URI you want to redirect to. If you want this to be a permanent move, you can additionally add a meta key of links_to_type with a value of “301″ (without the quotes). After saving the entry, the redirect will be active!

New in version 1.3: Now you can create a links_to_target meta key, and provide the target you would like for the link (like _new, to open the link in a new window). The target you choose will be used in wp_list_pages().

Download

• Latest Version (1.4) [zip]
• Browse SVN Repository

Instructions

1. Upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1.3 or higher (WordPress 2.0 required for tab highlighting feature)
2. Upload page-links-to.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface
4. Create (or edit) a page to have a title of your choosing, and a parent page of your choosing (leave the content blank)
5. Down below, add a meta key of “links_to” (without the quotes) and give a full URI as its value

That’s it! Now, that page will link to the “links_to” URI instead of its WordPress page URI.

Possible Uses

• Linking to an on-site non-WordPress resource (e.g. photo gallery)
• Linking to an off-site resource (e.g. Flickr or del.icio.us page)
• Placing a link to a 2nd, 3rd, or nth level page on the top level (i.e. you might have /archives/tags/, but want “tags” to show up on the top level)
• Adding a link to your blog’s front page without having to modify your template and hack it in manually

Leave any bug reports or feature suggestions here in the comments.

Versions

• 1.4 Fixes to tab highlighting
• 1.3 You can now specify a link target via links_to_target, tab highlighting moved to WordPress 2.0 style
• 1.2 If you link to an internal WordPress page, like a category, the menu item will get the current_item CSS class when you’re on that page
• 1.1 Posts can have redirects, can specify redirect type (301/302), get_permalink() is filtered for posts.
• 1.0 Initial public release.

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