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 in WPMU

Page Links To

The best one I’ve found

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”

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