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Redirecting WordPress Pages to External Sites
30 Aug2008
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TwitterWhen 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 because it’s easy to forward pages or posts. You simply scroll to the bottom and insert the url you would like it to forward to. Done!
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
- In: Tech Tasty|Wordpress Plugins|Wordpress WPMU
- Tags: plugin, redirect, sharethis, Wordpress
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DigiZen » Redirigir páginas en WordPress
August 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
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August 30th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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TC
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for sharing. Just tried out the Page_Link_To plugin, it is simple to setup and easy to use!
awls99
August 25th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Thank you
I didn't actualy read the whole post, just went for the plugin page, but I gotta thank you for finding it for me.
awls99
August 25th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
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.
Bill
October 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
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.
Donald Gilbert
October 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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)
Donald Gilbert
October 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Answered my own question by installing it and trying it out. Works as expected. Thanks for the how to!
L.K.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Hi, thanks for the useful info.
I am looking for a simple way to manage in WP the outbound links, so if i want to link to site somesite.com I will actually link to internal php file that will do for me the redirect, something like myblog.com/out.php?url=some-url
And in put.php I can register the click for stat info.
adriarichards
February 24th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
With “simple” and “manage” being the keywords, this plugin and “redirection”
are good plugins to use.
The more complex methods (thinking of business owners) is to use .htaccess
files or scripts written in php.
If you want to cloak links with redirection, you may want to check out the
“gocodes” plugin
Redirection http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
GoCodes http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gocodes/
Good luck!
Ms. Katrina
February 26th, 2010 at 11:30 am
If you're looking to have an external site embedded into your navigation bar (I was! Lol.), I just found the plugin Embed iFrame. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embed-iframe/
adriarichards
February 26th, 2010 at 11:35 am
Ms. Katrina.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting. Yes. I've used Embed iframe to add/embed content from another
site into the body of a page.
Remember though that based on a person's browser settings and if they're on
a computer or mobile device, iframes may not render.
So when you say “external site embedded into your navigation” that sounds to
me like linking a page/post to an external site. If so, that's exactly what
“Page Links To” does.
Plugins in WordPress rock!
Ms. Katrina
February 26th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
If you're looking to have an external site embedded into your navigation bar (I was! Lol.), I just found the plugin Embed iFrame. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embed-iframe/
adriarichards
February 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Ms. Katrina.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting. Yes. I've used Embed iframe to add/embed content from another
site into the body of a page.
Remember though that based on a person's browser settings and if they're on
a computer or mobile device, iframes may not render.
So when you say “external site embedded into your navigation” that sounds to
me like linking a page/post to an external site. If so, that's exactly what
“Page Links To” does.
Plugins in WordPress rock!