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Redirecting Wordpress Pages to External Sites

30 Aug
2008

When I started up this blog, I got started with some great tips from my Life Coach on blogging. One thing he said was to create links between my business site and my blog so I went about finding the best way to redirect page links to external websites.

Platform: Wordpress 2.6.3 (updated version) in WPMU

Page Links To

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This is the best one I’ve found becauase:

Page Links To allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources. By Mark Jaquith.

Pros

  • Fast redirection
  • Mouseover reflects redirected link
  • Works with Sharethis
  • Built-in to Wordpress Post under “Advanced Options”

Screenshot of Page Links To In Action

It creates a new field under “Advanced Options” at the bottom of the posting area and you simply enter in the page it should redirect to.

Page Links To

Page Links To

EasyRedirect

I tried this one based on a post I found about Wordpress redirection at 19 Labs

Plugin to easliy redirect to another page with javascript By Paul Bain.

Cons

  • Slow redirect
  • Have to remember the code syntax to insert into each post [redirect http://www.google.com 5]

Template-Redirect

This is the first one I used a few months ago from this blog by Dave Stewart in the UK template-redirect.php at Keyframesandcode.com. It worked great until I started using Sharethis to make it easy for people to share my blog content. I did post to the Sharethis forum and to support about the problem – See redirect page template broke

Pros

  • Built-in to Wordpress Post options as a template option

Cons

  • Have to remember the formatting syntax to insert into each post (Update from plugin author: No syntax required. oops, sorry about that Dave)

  • Doesn’t work out of the box with every theme

Page Redirect

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  • Found you Google. The page-links-to is absolutely the best. I've spent most of the day doing a page refresh and using the redirect template to get what I want. This plugin is too easy. Thanks for posting this.
  • TC
    Thanks for sharing. Just tried out the Page_Link_To plugin, it is simple to setup and easy to use!
  • awls99
    Thank you :)
    I didn't actualy read the hole post, just went for the plugin page, but I gotta thank you for finding it for me.
  • thanks for this! Just one question, does it redirect automatically, or does a person need to click the link in order to be redirected? (referring to Page Links To)
  • Answered my own question by installing it and trying it out. Works as expected. Thanks for the how to!
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