Installation Instructions

1. Upload the page-links-to folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

2. Activate the "Page Links To" plugin in your WordPress administration interface.

3. Create (or edit) a page or a post to have a title of your choosing (leave the content blank).

4. Down below, in the advanced section, find the Page Links To widget, select "An alternate URL", and add a URL of your choosing.

5. Optionally check the box to enable link opening in a new browser window.

6. Save the post or page.

7. Done! Now that post or page will point to the URL that you chose.

FAQ

How do I make it so that a page doesn't link to anything? I'd like to use it as a dummy container.

Just use "#" as the link. That won't go anywhere.

Can this be used to repoint categories to an arbitrary URL?

No.

My links are sending me to http://myblog.com/www.site-i-wanted-to-link-to.com ... why?

If you want to link to a full URL, you must include the http:// portion.

Can I link to relative URLs?

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

2.7.1

• Fix an array bug

2.7

• Fix a PHP notice
• Use JS to open links in an external window, even outside of nav menus
• Completely revamped UI
• Several translations

2.6

• Proper linking for custom post types (insead of just a 301).
• Fixed a bug that prevented links from opening in a new window.
• Notifies people when they are editing content that uses this plugin.
• Removed the option to set redirection type. Always 301, now.
• Removed some PHP4 and WP 2.8 back compat stuff.

2.5

• Allow all show_ui post types to use the meta box.
• Introduce a filter so a plugin can remove a post type from the list.
• Target filtering for WordPress nav menus.
• Silence some PHP notices. Props Ross McKay, Bill Erickson.

2.4.1

• Fixed typo that was preventing 302 redirects from working. props Ryan Murphy.
• Fixed a random PHP notice

2.4

• Rewrote using Singleton best practices
• Fixed a regex bug that could break current menu highlighting. props skarab

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_id to 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