Page Links To
About
Page Links To is a plugin that allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress page or post URL. It also will redirect people who go to the old (or “normal”) URL to the new one, using a redirect style of your choosing (302 Moved Temporarily is standard, but you can enable 301 Moved Permanently redirects if 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 point it to the URL of 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 Page 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 “Page Links To” section on the edit screen for that entry and enter in the URL you want to redirect to. If you want this to be a permanent move, you can additionally check that box. And if you want the link to open in a new window, there’s a checkbox for that as well. After saving the entry, the redirect will be active!
Download
Instructions
- Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 or higher
- Upload the
page-links-tofolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface
- Create (or edit) a post or page to have a title of your choosing (leave the content blank — it won’t be used)
- Down below, find the Page Links To meta box and add the URL you’d like it to link to
- Optionally check one of the checkbox to enable
301redirects or opening in a new browser window - Publish the post/page
That’s it! Now, that post/page will link to the provided URL instead of its WordPress URL.
Possible Uses
- Linking to an on-site non-WordPress resource (e.g. photo gallery)
- Linking to an off-site resource (e.g. Flickr or Delicious 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
- 1.8 Fixed a bug where blanking the URL field would just blank the custom field, instead of deleting it altogether
- 1.7 Dropping support for anything before 2.7 — later versions of 2.6.x might work, but I’m not promising anything! Fixed some bugs, and made the whole thing GUI-driven — no custom fields, even for
301redirects and opening the link in a new browser window! - 1.6 The meta boxes in version 1.5 didn’t work on WP 2.5 — my mistake. The plugin requires WP 2.6 now. Fixed a bug where multiple custom fields would be added (if you have dupes, just delete them)
- 1.5 Added WordPress 2.5 meta box — no more custom field-fu!
- 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_itemCSS 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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Thanks for such an awesome plugin!!! Only question i have is once i make a new page WP creates a new tab, how do i shift the tabs around without del the page and remaking them them in the order i would like them to be?
Boyd: If I’ve understood your comment correctly it should be a matter of reordering the pages. I’m not too familiar with Wordpress but I’m not sure if this can be done easily without a plugin. To do it ‘manually’ at least – on each page, somewhere on the bottom right there is a ‘page order’ box. I use that but there must be a better way
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Thanks so much! Great plugin and much better than hardcoding everything
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This is phenomenally easy. Thank you for sparing me convoluted php rewrites. I have a phpLD on the same server as my artsmontana blog and I wanted the directory to appear in the main menu and the sidebar where wp_list_pages does its stuff. I figured a custom field on the old WP page where I started the directory (ugh) would do the work. But then what? Then Links To, that’s what. Feenominal, too, since I made a modest donation. Wish I could have done 5 times that. Not only is the solution elegant, your instructions are, too.
Boyd,
RE WordPress page ordering:
Set the page order for each page in Manage > Pages. Then edit wp_list_pages to make it use the ordering you’ve established. If you are ordering the pages for a main menu, put the wp_list_page edit in header.php.
This code following my blog banner div did the trick:
I let the sidebar instance of wp_list_pages default to alphabetical ordering, but you can change the code there, too. You can call this list anything; the example uses “PAGES”:
‘ . __(’PAGES’) . ” ); ?>
All of this is swell if you don’t have a lot of pages to go and set PAGE ORDER for. (Note that you don’t have to delete pages and recreate them to get the right ordering of IDs; this is something you do on each page in the PAGE ORDER box at bottom right when you edit a page.)
Darn.
I was assuming I was in text editing mode. But I see my post is messed up and doesn’t show the code. I’m new at this blog commenting thing. Maybe it was the php (for security reasons?) that messed things up.
Apologies to all readers and our blog host for the wasted space.
Look at this WordPress Codex page. All will be answered there. (And I hope this HTML word here.)
Red in the face.
Hi,
I’m really new at this…
On my site I want the Flickr page to open IN the blog and not in a new page. I already managed to make a link, but it opens in an new page.
What am I doing wrong???
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They really should have included something like this in Wordpress as standard. Thank you so much =)
Regards Tim, from Sydney Australia
I have used this plugin on a few sites in the past and it’s excellent. On a recent site I have been working on I thought about using it to force specific pages through the site’s SSL certificate. So, using an absolute https:// address on specific pages. It doesn’t work, however, and it’s not obvious to me why this is. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Brandon
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Fantastic plugin, can’t believe something like this isn’t standard in WP. I’d like to echo Serena’s question above, is there any way for the linked page to open up in the content pane of my site, so that the navbar, header, and footer are still visible?
Thanks,
Michael
Wonderful plugin. Is there any way of making the links relative? It’s just when I build a WP site on my local computer, I’ve got to go through and change all the ‘links_to’ links when the site goes live because all the urls are different.
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hi!
thanks for the great plugin!!! i really needed that and didn´t came across the hardcoded thing.
but one thing is left:
how can i add a e.g. class=”thickbox” to the link so i can open it cia thickbox?
would be great if you could help me out…
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I didnt even know this plugin existed! I was getting ready to take a machete to my blog’s code. Thanks
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Strange… tried creating a page with link to myGallery2 but when activated AND adding custom key it constantly creates a draft post. What a pity
Maybe its my themes fault: Intense.
I switched theme to WordPress default but with the same result…
After deactivating almost all my plug-ins I discovered Kiras post #260 about my problem above. Her workaround on the WordPress (!) bug, when creating pages which are then saved as draft posts, helped me.
So thanks Kira and thanks Mark for making time easier, at least sometimes
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It would be nice if you put a blurb on ALL of the keys that can be used in the custom fields & how it is done. I had to search thru all your comments to find out how to use the link_to to open a _new window.
Great tool!!
Thank you very much for authoring this incredibly useful plugin. I have put it to good use, and appreciate your work very much!
I am unable to download the plugin. Is it available anywhere else?
I’m trying to pull in a page from google finance as an integrated page into my main page by clicking on the Quote link.
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Is there a way to show the link_to page http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MOT in my blog, I knew that I used to be able to do this in my PHPNuke site with a little plug-in and was hoping to find something similar with this.
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t work for you, drop me a comment or an email.) Here’s a quick walk-through for anyone trying to do this (and, let’s face it, so I don’t forget how it works): The WPG2 plugin embeds Gallery in Wordpress. ThePage Links Toplugin lets me direct the “Photos” link right to my embedded Gallery instead of a Wordpress page. 1. In Gallery Site Admin, turn off the URL Rewrite module. I was using URL Rewrite to get pretty links, but it confuses WPG2. Unfortunately this
Hi,
is it possible to do something like:
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with this plugin…?
thx for help
Hi,
i entered links_to_target and _new but the link is still opening in the same browser window?
thx for help
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i entered links_to_target and _new but the link is still opening in the same browser window?
thx for help
with this plugin…?
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Per the instructions, I created a blank page QUOTE as a parent, then created a 2nd page (Quote Mot) with the links_to key and a value of http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MOT however when I press the Quote button on my main page it opens the 2nd page to an empty link.
Thank you very much for authoring this incredibly useful plugin. I have put it to good use, and appreciate your work very much!
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wow! thx. But i don’t get it.
I tried this on version 2.2.2 and when I go to save or publish a page it disappears. Anything I am doing wrong, or just not compatible?
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the top of the link lists. Else, they will be displayed in alphabetical order. 9. My page order – To order the pages that appear in navigation menu. 10. Page link manager – Gives you option in the edit page to show / hide pages from navigation. 11.Page links to- To redirect pages. 12. Subscribe remind – Adds a reminder after each post asking your readers to subscribe to your feed. 13. Subscribe to comments – Gives an option in each post for your readers to subscribe to comment notification by email.
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page added on your menu. But what about the case where there’s already a page somewhere that you want to link to. Maybe it’s part of your IDX system, for example your MLS listing search page that’s maintained by another company. Now what? ThePage Links To Pluginlet’s you add some code to a sort of “dummy” page, which in turn tells the navigation system to link not to the page, but to whatever web address you tell it that the (ta da!) “page links to”
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Oh, this is great – I’ve been looking for a plugin like this for some time. I’ve wanted to make some external links in the “pages” section without hacking my wordpress installation to death. Good show. and thanks!