Tempus Fugit

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]

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Installation

1. Upload the page-links-to folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory

2. Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface

3. Create (or edit) a page or a post to have a title of your choosing (leave the content blank)

4. Down below, in the advanced section, find the Page Links To widget and add a URL of your choosing

5. Optionally check the boxes to enable link opening in a new browser window, or 302 Moved Temporarily redirects

6. Save the post or page

7. 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_id to 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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