Page Links To
This plugin 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 you’ve chosen (301 Moved Permanently redirects are standard, but you can choose a 302 Moved Temporarily redirect if you wish).
This functionality is useful for setting up navigational links to non-WordPress sections of your site or to off-site resources.
You can also use it to create a hand-crafted menu that links to pages, posts, categories, or anything within your site.
Download
Latest version: Download Page Links To v2.3 [zip]
This plugin has been downloaded 240474 times.
Installation
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Upload the
page-links-tofolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory -
Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface
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Create (or edit) a page or a post to have a title of your choosing (leave the content blank)
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Down below, in the advanced section, find the Page Links To widget and add a URL of your choosing
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Optionally check the boxes to enable link opening in a new browser window, or
302 Moved Temporarilyredirects -
Save the post or page
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Done! Now that post or page will point to the URL that you chose
FAQ
Q. How do I make it so that a page doesn’t link to anything? I’d like to use it as a dummy container.
A. Just use “#” at the link. That won’t go anywhere.
Q. Can this be used to repoint categories to an arbitrary URL?
A. Not at this time. I’m considering it as a future feature.
Q. My links are sending me to http://myblog.com/www.site-i-wanted-to-link-to.com … why?
A. If you want to link to a full URL, you must include the http:// portion.
Q. Can I link to relative URLs?
A. Yes. Linking to /my-photos.php is a good idea, as it’ll still work if you move your site to a different domain.
Changelog
2.3
- Fixed a bug with current menu item highlighting
2.2
- Cleanup
- compatibility tweaks to interoperate with a few other plugins
- prompt http:// and auto-add it if a URL starts with “www.”
2.1
- WordPress MU compatibility for when
switch_to_blog()is used… it now uses$blog_idto keep their caches from stomping on each other
2.0
- Allow one-character URLs so that things like “#” (dummy link) are possible
1.9
- Fixed “open in new window” functionality
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if we use your plugin, is it reachable or filter by statpress or similar plugins. i mean, can we see the how many click for that post which is re-styled with your plugin. thanks.
Hi,
I downloaded the plugin Page Links To and started using it. It’s great!
The only problem is that the linked sites are not opened in a new blank page. Why? I downloaded the latest version 2.3.
My WordPress version is 3.0
Could you help please?
Thank you.
Same Problem here.
Wordpress Version 3.0
Link not opened in new window….
Any fix for that?
p.s.
This is a great plugin, I’m using it for along time now.
Best Regs,
Pinto.
Hello Pinto,
I have the same problem…plug-in is not working. Just wandering if there has been resolution for this problem yet?
Sure hate to change the theme!
Thanks
James Allen Pauley-Barker
Follow Me On Twitter @thewebwarrior
Same here.
The plugin does work in WordPress 3.0 if you are not using the new Menu functionality.
But the ‘open links in new window’ option does not work if you are using the new Menu functionality.
a fix would be great news!
Great plugin but the open window is not working after upgrade to 3.0.
Same as Shin
Let us know what to do.
G
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I need install the _blank or open in new window is not working. Is there a fix?
hey there,
this is a great plug-in – exactly what i was looking for.
i have one question about it:
as soon as i chose a page to be linked to, that page doesn’t get additional current_page_item class assigned any more. that way i can’t highlight it as the active navi item any more.
do others have that problem to? is there a fix or workaround?
thanks a lot for the help and thanks a lot for putting this up!
hy there,
i’ve upload Page Links To file to /wp-content/plugin as you explain. And I already activate the plugin.
The problem is in my Picture Perfect on a control panel still asked me to activate the plugin…
I’m very glad if you can tell me the problem..
regrads, Syuaib – Indonesia
p.s : I’m sorry coz my English not well
I am having the same issue as syuaib with Picture Perfect and this Plug-In – any ideas on how to resolve… thanks
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Hi, thanks so much for this plugin! I understand it is possible to use this plug in to make one particular page button in the nav menu function as a container but not actually be click-able. In my site:
http://globetrotterdiaries.com/
I’d like to have “Diaries” be unclickable but so that when someone hovers over the Diaries tab (which is a parent page), the drop down comes down and they can click on those child pages.
How exactly do I go about doing this? Thank you so so much for your help. It really is appreciated.
Hi
Great plugin
Can this be used to redirect affiliate links?
Thanks
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I am having the same problem with getting this to work with picture perfect. Did anyone ever come up with a solution?
Thank you so much! Just what I was looking for!!!
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Hi there,
Does this plugin actually writes into .htaccess file or does it use wordpress to let engines know of 301 redirect?
Hi Mark-
I used page-links to to create a link for a page on my site(http://jamiegaymon.com/shop), but it ended up creating that link on my main domain name(http://jamiegaymon.com). I deleted the 1st page, but my main page is still being routed to the shop page.
I’m pretty new at this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jamie
We need to be very careful while preparing their page links. Through the program, this data can come in very high places.
Is a good plugin thanks
Hi! Brilliant Plugin, many thanx. How can I add it to custom post types?
I love this plugin its great for my site anger management for children
I discovered a bug on ver. 2.3 of the plugin, regarding current menu item highlighting. When special characters that are part of the regular expression syntax appear in the current page link, regex matching on line 186 fails. Notably, if pretty permalinks are disabled on a blog, the ‘?’ character that is part of the url may be breaking the regular expression.
To fix this problem, replace the first occurence of “$current_page” with “preg_quote($current_page)” on line 186 of page-links-to.php.
It is still possible that menu item highlighting may not work on some configurations. The plugin assumes that class .current_page_item is used to mark the current menu item, but not all themes follow this convention. Admittedly, this issue cannot be addressed by the plugin directly, so in some cases the user may need to adapt the regular expressions on lines 185-186 to match the structure of their particular theme.
Hello, I have a serious problem. I dont know if anyone reads this still but here goes. I have been using this plug-in for quite sometime although i haven’t used it in a while but it worked great and was happy with it. I up-graded to network and i went to use the plug-in again and it totally messed things up for me. Heres what happened: I used the plug in to link a page and after that Every time i went to the URL of my website it took me to that website that i linked to. Ok so I figured i would just get rid of that page till i figure it out. Yea right, now every time i go to my main URL it still takes me to that page and says: Oops, That wasn’t found
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria. So i figured i would just deactivate the plug-in till this situation was fixed…..Nope, that didnt fix it either. SO now i dont have a home page. Every time i click the Home tab it takes me to that Oops, That wasn’t found. This is a very serious problem my home page is where all my fresh content goes. If Google cant find my home page i am screwed. Go to my website and you will see what i mean.
http://www.cashtobefit.com/. Please help me fix this some one. I put a lot of time in building my home page i would really like to have it back.
Thanks
Having the same problem as Adam. root domain name is now trying to forward to a Page Links To link I tried to set up. I removed the link and even disabled the plug-in, but it is still acting weird. Checked the htaccess file and nothing looks out of the ordinary. Ideas?
Entries were added to the ‘wptest_redirection_items’ table of the Redirection Plugin. Used phpMyAdmin to delete the record of the errant redirection and everything is working again. Seems to be a conflict betweeen Page Links To and the Redirection plug-in.
I’ve noticed that pages on which I enter a complete URL, this plugin copies the URL to the Permalink field and does not allow for editing of the permalink.
Is there any workaround so I can set short permalinks rather than the long linked URL?
Thanks,
Peter
how did u fix the issue man
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One question, can I make it work that instead of going to an URL should make a dummy link (a href=”#”) and trigger an onClick event? I’m trying to open a pop up window, checking the open link in new window wont work because I have some window size specifications for that pop up.
“Opening in a new browser window” does not work for WP 3.0. Any fix please?
wonderful plug-in! so hard to search for this keyword in search engines. took me a while to find it and it was well worth the effort to find yours!
thank you!
very userful plugin … thanks a lot
open in a new window option NOT working.
I am using WordPress 3. I am NOT using the new menu function.
However, the open in a new window option of page links to does not work.
Will there be a fix for this? Does the author ever read these replies?
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