Redirecting Wordpress Pages to External Sites
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
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.
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
Categories Tech Tasty, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress WPMU
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June 3rd, 2009
Thanks for sharing. Just tried out the Page_Link_To plugin, it is simple to setup and easy to use!
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