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 243257 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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thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…
hii
This plugin does work with WordPress 2.3, but you need to create a blank page (with your chosen title, and no content), publish it, and then edit it to add the links_to tag. Just a heads-up.
Otherwise, it works perfectly and is proving to be very useful, so thanks for making it!
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Hi Mark,
It seems that your permanent 301 redirects are broken in 2.3.2. Just thought I’d drop you a line to let you know!
The non-permanent redirect works though.
Thanks for the great plugin!
Regards,
David
Im using this ona few blogs, works great – but on one of my blogs its not working at all.
WordPress database error: [Column 'post_id' in field list is ambiguous]
(…)
What can be the issue?
Thanks
I’m confused. I installed the plugin. Created a new page. Opened it up to edit it.
Now what?
Where exactly do I add the link to? What exaclty do I type?Can someone just type it out for me? I’m a newbie!
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James,
On the Edit Page screen doesn´t appear the Custom Fields section with the options “links_to”. What could be the problem?
Thanks.
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Thanks for the plugin
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Many thanks
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Hi Mark,
It appears that the “links_to” has disappeared from the custom field as a dropdown. I have the same problem as Alexander.
Regards,
David
Great tool, thank you! I was quite annoyed when I found out WordPress can’t do this natively. I did a little research, stumbled upon your plugin, and walah! Thank you very much!
Matthew Lindahl
http://www.atmatthew.com
Any chance that this plugin will be updated? It’s not working for 2.3.3., it seems to disappear when I attempt to create a new page, and the new page won’t be created at all.
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Hey,
a really kick ass feature would be if the link clicks were counted.
So i can display the link clicks.
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Very nice plugin. I have used it to “block” root pages at the top of drop-down menus, by setting the links-to value to “#”. Thank you !
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I have a static home page for my site, and i’d like to create a blog link for the post page. Only thing is, i’m not sure how to link to it as it links to index.php by default, and that is what the static page ends up being once that is declared. Is there a work around for this issue. Hard to believe this hasn’t been done before. Thanks very much, great plugin!
My apologies for the previous post. As I continued my search I was led to the obvious. Right under the Dashboard Options Page where I declared my static home page there is an option for me to declare my post page. I could then declare my Blog page to be the posts. (duh, must open eyes) I thank you for the plugin!
Lovely wordpress plugin! WordPress should integrate this into their core system.
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it would be neat if you could make a new field that says “no_link” that could make it so just the word appeared, with no … that way you could make parent pages into just category headers that don’t link anywhere.
for now i make link_to point to # to accomplish this.
# Rhian Says:
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This plugin does work with WordPress 2.3, but you need to create a blank page (with your chosen title, and no content), publish it, and then edit it to add the links_to tag. Just a heads-up.”
Thanks Rhian this worked a treat
Andy
It works well on WP 2.5! Thank you!
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Using links_to in 2.5 not the same as in 2.2
I just upgraded one of my sites from version 2.2 of WordPress to 2.5 and am confused. I wrote a page and wanted to use my Netflix RSS on that page, I went down the extra features, saw the drop down for links_to and pasted the RSS link in, previewed the page and nothing. Went into my Plugin settings, activated v1.4 of links_to and previewed the page and it worked.
1st question, is links_to built into 2.5 or not and if so why so I have to use v1.4 of the plugin to get it to work?
2nd question, when I display that page, I get a new window of my Netflix queue, did this with a few other sites and the same thing.
How do I embed the linked site so that’s it’s displayed within my wordpress and the user doesn’t end up on another site?
FYI, I do have Netflix working as an RSS Widget, but I would prefer to have it as a page so that there are descriptions etc.
Miguel
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Hi Mark,
Your plugin is really great, but could you PLEASE say something about it working with WordPress 2.5? (it doesn’t right now)
Are you planning on an update soon?
Cheers,
Diego
http://www.secretia.com
Hello,
i have installed your plugin with WP 2.5 and it doesn’t seem to be working
Does aynone know about an alternative to this plugin or if it’s going to get updated ?
Thanks for your work !
Yes, it is not working in 2.5
But thanks anyway
Not working in WP 2.5 here either. Please update!
How is it not working in 2.5? It works fine for me (as seen on this site with my “Photos” and “Services” links).
It works fine for me on 2.5, too. (See the “My King” link on my blog.)
Thank you so much!
I’ve been looking for something like this for months! It’s so simple and easy to use!
Much love for San Jose, CA!
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I have installed it on my site but I can’t see where I can use it when making a new page? Could someone please make a PrintScreen?
Cool little Plugin, very useful
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hey,
what about adding the facility to add a meta ‘links_to_post’ and then quote the post id. Helps when you need to move the site to another server and domain or even to a sub-directory.
Very good plugin and works great on WP 2.5. Thank you very much for your work!
Thank you for taking the time to develop this plugin.
I have installed the plugin but when I go to create a new page I cannot find any reference to it in the templates. Please help.
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Great plug-in! I have been searching for something like this for a while.
I have a question:
When I do a re-direct, I want it to open in another tab or at worst another window. How can I do this?
Thanks!
Perfect!
Excellent work in WP 2.5, this one’s a keeper
Yea.. it doesnt seem to be working for me either.. used firefox 2.0, then upgraded to firefox 3.0, and also using ie 6.0.. and none of them popped up into a new window.. for (http://markjaquith.com/) or (http://www.4-14.org.uk/) .. so.. im also using windows xp 64-bit ..
so i dont know if that has anything to do with it.
Anyway I can mask/hide the redirected URL so that my site’s address still shows in the Location bar?
Or as Miguel asked, “How do I embed the linked site so that’s it’s displayed within my wordpress and the user doesn’t end up on another site?”
Tq.
I guess I have the same question as Sandra. I can’t figure out what to set the links_to_target to get the page to open embedded in my blog. Any help would be appreciated, thanks for providing this plug-in.
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Hey there, the plugin is pretty simple at usage. Lightweight and it worked effectively.
Find it hard to figure out what it does at first since it was named to “Page links to”. Thought it was used for linking internal pages.
Now I know what it is and I can link my blog with my other websites.
Thanks for the ultra cool plugin.
Frank did you figure the ” links_to_target ” tag yet?
Pretty simple, it’s like creating or hyperlink your link.
Once you created the “links_to and URL in the custom field. You need to create ” links_to_target ” in a new custom field with value ” _new “.
Your page will save by itself make sure the status Published is set first.
Check you page nav link and click on it. New page will open.
Easy pheasy!
Hope I answered that correctly.
I don’t know if I’m getting this right, but what’s the point of this plugin? I went in (without the plugin), created a new (blank) page for my Flickr library and added “links_to” in the custom field.
What else does this plugin do that I didn’t just do with the above method?
Or am I completely missing the boat here?
For some reason one of the pages I used this on has now replaced my 404 message. So whenever a link is broken the user gets redirected to another site, not the 404. Any ideas?
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Wow and wow again…
I have the latest version (2.5.1) of WordPress installed and this works great and just as described above.
In short for those who haven’t read properly the full text… Make a dummy page with title and add the Custom Field key lins_to with the URL as value and you have it up and running!
No editing themes/templates to add items to the menu so you can test and change easily. For me that is what really sells it.
Many many thanks.
Mike
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It changes the WP-generated link to your page to point to the URL specified by your links_to custom field. If you did it without the plugin, you’d just have a blank “Flickr” WordPress page that didn’t point to your Flickr library!
Hi Mark,
I still haven’t found the solution to embedding the redirected page within my wordpress. Any thoughts?
Den: The ”links_to_target” tag works great if you want the redirected page to open in a new window, but Frank and I want to embed the redirected content. Any ideas?
Thx!
Sandra,
What you want isn’t going to be feasible the way you want without using an
<iframe />or really geeky PHP code. Embedding and redirecting, although they seem similar, are very different, technically.