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]
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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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Any idea why your plugin interferes with the KG Archives plugin? I’m getting this error on my archives page:
Rob,
I don’t see that error there… don’t know why you’d be getting that.
A couple of observations:
$archive_page_slugisn’t declared global within the function.Thanks, Mark for taking the time to comment. Shoot for some reason the archives tag got eaten. If you check again, those errors are showing again.
Hmm, I’ll have to look at that line 17. Interesting!
And I’m waiting for my service provider to update their Fantastico to WP 2.0.4.
Hi Mark,
This plugin is just what I was looking for. The only problem I’ve had with it is the tab highlighting. I looked at the comments above and I’m not quite sure what you mean by manually removing part of the code in header.php. Could you be more specific?
Also, have you found a way to keep the tab highlighted when you click on say a photo within the photo gallery?
Thank you so much!
Thanks for that nice plugin.
According the tab highlighting that should be fixed in 1.4 I found a bug. In line 147 at one place you must use $this_url instead of $page:
trailingslashit(get_bloginfo(‘home’))) == str_replace(‘http://www.’, ‘http://’, trailingslashit($this_url)) ) )
With that it works.
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Hey, I don’t understand what “add a meta key of “links_to” and give a full URI as its value” would look like. If I want to link to http://glitteringstew.com/reed
should I do
how does this work?
thanks for any help.
David
David,
On the post screen, scroll down to the “Custom Fields” section.
Consult this image. Hopefully that should clear it up.
Got it, Mark. Way at the bottom of the page. Never saw that before. OK, I got it to link to the page, now I’d like to use the links_to_target to a _new page. Do I write links_to_target_new? So far that hasn’t worked. It just goes to the title of the page.
If it doesn’t work, at least it goes to the new link with just links_to
thanks,
David
Mark, I have wp 2.0.4, so tab highlighting (whatever that is) should work.
Thanks for the neat plugin.
David
links_to_targetshould be entered as a second custom field (after saving the first one). Key islinks_to_target, value is_newThank you for the help. I appreciate it. I can now link to another blog of mine.
David
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This plugin is amazing, and works like a charm. Thanks to this and the Page Category Organiser plugin, I can now have completely dynamic menus on my site, with some of my post categories acting as “pages”. Wonderful. Thank you so much!
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This plugin is awesome.
Thanks so much, I used it to “integrate” Gallery2 with my blog.
Hi. Plugin appears to be working. However, is there a way for the redirected link to be opened within my blog as opposed to opening in a seperate page?
This would be absolutely perfect
Thanks in advance,
Jason
By default it opens in the same browser window.
Is there any way to change that Mark?
Set the
links_to_targetCustom Field to the target of your choice.Hi Mark,
I have tried this, but now it is opening the link in a completely new browser window. I want it to open in an existing page that I have created in Wordpress http://mydomain.com/blog/?page_id=5 and keep the menu header (not replace it with new page I have linked to)
Any ideas?
Thx
Jason,
That’d require a custom template that calls in the relevant code within a WordPress context… that’s a topic beyond the scope of this plugin.
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Thanks a ton! Exactly what I was looking for, and it works wonders!
I’m having the same problem as Sammo (#248). I’ve even removed my hard-coded “Home” link and created a page for it. Any ideas? Otherwise, this is an extremely useful plugin!
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Great plugin.
However, the tab for the current page does not highlight when I’m in a sub page of the current page – i.e. the gallery – the tab highlights for the top level page of the gallery, but not in any of the sub pages (i.e. the albums) – I am using WPG2 plugin.
Any ideas?
Many Thanks,
James.
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The plugin stopped working for me and I don’t know since when because I have not added links using the plugin for a good while. I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and Page Links To 1.4 a few days ago. Today, when I try to add a link to my forum, I get some weird stuff happening:
1. I start a new page and give it a title of “Forum” without the quotes, leaving the page content blank;
2. I add a links_to custom field with a value of “http://www.kalunite.net/forum/” without the quotes;
3. Click “Publish”;
The newly created page is not listed among the Pages; instead, it is saved as a post draft by WordPress. Furthermore, the title is “Draft created on January 27, 2007 at 10:51 am” instead of “Forum”. I didn’t dare making changes to that post draft and saving or publishing it because I’m afraid it may mess up my whole blog, so I just deleted it.
I forgot to mention that despite the weird behaviour, my forum _does_ show up in the post preview area when I open the post draft.
Ok, I think I have found a work around to my problem:
1. Create the page with the desired title and leave the content blank;
2. Publish it without adding the links_to custom field;
3. Open the page for editing again and add the links_to custom field; At this point the link to the page disappears from the blog frontpage sidebar;
4. Go to the admin interface –> Manage –> Pages; The page should be listed;
5. Click on View;
The link should now appear on the frontpage sidebar again.
Kira,
That’s actually a bug in WordPress 2.1, and not this plugin. The bug is that if you add a custom field on an unsaved Page (and click the add custom field button) and then publish that page, it gets saved as a post, not a page. Thanks for reporting the steps to duplicate it! I’ll look into a fix. For now, you’re right, just save the Page before you add a custom field to it.
Kira,
Actually, I may have spoken too soon.
Looking into the matter some more… I’ll let you know.
Kira,
Okay, WordPress bug, for sure. I triggered it with my plugin turned off. There are many workarounds… typing dummy content and waiting a minute would have fixed it, as autosave appears to repair the problem. You also could have filled in the Custom Field info and hit publish (i.e. not submitted the custom field info before hitting publish… it’ll still be saved). You also could have published the page or even saved it as a draft and then added the custom field.
I reported the bug and will look into a fix for WP 2.1.1
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wp-gallery2.php (lots of fiddling with the .htaccess file needed) and when I had one, there was still the issue of making it look like a Page (like Reading, Wishlist and CV). I finally used another addon for that which I stumbled onto by accident: Page Links To, which is easy to use. You just click “Write Page”, give it a title, enter links_to in the Custom Fields section under “key”, and a full URL under “Value” and it will link to that URL from what looks like a Page. I found this after a lot of
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Thanks for this plug-in, it’s just what I needed.
Can I make a feature enhancement suggestion? Could you allow us to put a page id in the link-to box. Then, your plugin could convert that page id to a permalink. It would mean then that if our permalink structure, or page-slugs changed, then internal links would still work.
I think it would only need a couple of lines of code, and wouldn’t affect current functionality, as you would just need to test whether the input was an integer.
Thanks for considering it,
Mark
Hello, just installed this to provide a link to my Flickr Photo Album on Wordpess 2.1.1.
It works very well indeed, apart from the ‘blog’ tab is always highlighted.
I’ve been looking around, searching, reading and trying to get this to work without the ‘home’ or ‘blog’ tab, but I’m at the end of my tether so thought I’d ask here for help.
I’m an idiot. Some themes (k2 included) hard code the “blog” link. I just removed the hard coded link and added a new custom “blog” tab/page.
Thanks again for this little plugin, really useful!
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Hi, I’m just trying your plug-in and the page linking works great. Thank you. Unfortunately the high-lighting is giving me problems. I am using WP2.12 and k2 theme (but I have tried it with several other themes). I have read previous posts here regarding the hard coding of the ‘home’ page in k2, but even if I remove that, high-lighting does not work correctly. I was looking through your script ( and I speak now as a scripting beginner) and I felt that the ‘class=”current_page_item” ‘ was not getting added to your array when it is first populated, hence the new page list sometimes has 2 or more high lighted tabs, depending on which page I start navigating from, because the original never gets ‘reclassed’. I’m sorry, I just don’t know the coding well enough to investigate this theory further, but I wonder if, even if you can’t fix it, can you say if this might be the case?
Thanks again for your time to do this plug-in
Cheers
Dave
Hi again, I’d just like to clarify that I’m using the wordpress header on my non wordpress pages, which I assume is the intended use of this plug-in…
Cheers
Dave.
Page Links To plug-in
Where can we see a demo?
Never mind about the demo, I tried this out on my own setup.
The only problem was that it breaks the ability to comment on a post.
It would be great if you have the option for both types of link.
Such a great idea! One that I really need – so glad that there’s a plugins directory now to show what people *really* use… it seems there are problems with 2.1 as described above? Critically the comments part methinks… have others used it with no problems?
hey mark
thanks for the plugin! ive got a question though. is it fully compatible with wordpress 2.1.2? I cant get it working to link to my flickr account.
thanks for your attention.
It is compatible with WP 2.1.2? I make a blank page, add links_to the custom fields key and the URL to the value field, publish the page. When I go back and look for the page, it’s gone. It oddly appears has a draft post instead of a page. I then added a test page, without the links_to customer field, that works as expected. I edited it and added the links_to custom field and save it, but it just shows as a blank page instead of linking as desired. Any ideas?
Ok, now i understand the difference between 301 and 302 – Thnaks a lot for this information. Jürgen
OK, After a bit of fiddling around I think I figured it out.
1. Add a blank page and save it.
2. Edit the page and add the meta tag link_to (or another Page Links To meta tag) and the desired destination URL, save the page again.
3. Now the link works as designed.
Maybe they’ll get around to fixing it in WordPress one day as it seems to behave just as strangely without this plug-in.
Thanks for all the work that you put into this plug-in!
Thanks for the step-by-step instructions, Sonny.
I am using another plugin called ‘MyComic‘ that also utilises custom fields. The plugin only works if I save the post *first* before I add in the value for the custom fields as well.
I have not yet downloaded the plugin, but I am wondering something…
Can I use this to track the number of clicks from my Wordpress blog to my external resource?
Basically, I would like to know if people are clicking the link created by this plugin, or if they are going to the external resource directly (or a different way).
Thanks.
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#292 Comment works for ‘pages’, thanks for the tip. It’s interesting that when directing ‘posts’ to a new URL the plugin works first time, without the need to save first.
I seem to have the same problem as Paul (#278) and Dave Greenwood (#283). I allready read half the internet for a solution but unfortunately the ‘blog’ tab keeps highlighting. Where can I find the lines of ‘code’ that I need to remove?
It seems like some of you found a solution. Please share your wisdom!
Thanks!
In the header.php of your problem theme there will be a hardcoded home/blog link. Comment out/delete it. Then I added a page_links_to page for ‘blog’, with the links_to as the full address of my blog homepage.
Thanks Paul,
I found and removed the hardcoded link from the header and added the main page again as a page using this plugin. Only problem now is that no tab is highlighted by default.
I’m allmost there I suppose..
The problem with the double highlights doesn’t lie with page_links_to but with the WPG2 plugin. This plugin fails to provide the information needed to do the highlighting correctly. In the WPG@ case, page_links_to simply redirects (to yourpage/wp_gallery2.php usually) and isn’t the code that does the actual embedding hence this problem can’t be due to page_links_to
In my test-setup i use the K2 theme, which i hacked by replacing one line in header.php:
if (((is_home()) && !(is_paged())) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) {with
if ((((is_home()) && !(is_paged())) && !($g2_wp_init)) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) {This simply checks whether WPG2 is active and if so applies the right case. In case you ever disable WPG2 this should still work since PHP defaults to ‘false’ for unknown variables.
Thank you Liessa,
I wasn’t sure if I needed to add/hardcode the link to the Blog page to the header again. I tried 3 scenarios:
With hardcoded link:
When the page is loaded the Blog-tab is properly highlighted, after I click the galley tab this allso gets highlighted (so they both are) until I enter an album, then it only highlights blog.
Without hardcoded link, using links_to to point to my blogs index.php:
When the page is loaded no tabs are highlighted, after I click the galley-tab this gets lit, but only untill I open an album.
Blog-tab only highlights after clicking it.
(current state of my site)
Without hardcoded link using links_to to point to my blogs folder:
When the page is loaded blog-tab is and stays highlighted.
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&& !(is_paged())) && !($g2_wp_init)) or (is_archive()) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { Obviously i did some reporting of these findings, both in the page_links_to comments and in K2’s bugreportsystem. Ofcourse it’s not really a bug but more of a feature request, but i’d like to see it enabled in future releases since it shouldn’t break anything for non-gallery users.