External Permalinks
Posted on January 21st, 2009 in Uncategorized 10 Comments »
Description
This plugin allows you to have posts with an external permalink. Great for cross promoting your blogs or guest posts. For more info, read the announcement blog post.
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Usage Instructions
Usage couldn’t be simpler. When you add or edit a post, look for the “External URL” field. Typically at the bottom of the page. (If you’re running Wordpress 2.7 you can rearrange it’s position).
Simply type the external URL, making sure to start with “http://” and the plugin will do the rest.
Plugin Options
There are several plugin options available:
Notice Text: If you want to, you can add a notice to tell your readers to continue reading the post at the external link.
Show notice in the loop: Whether to show the notice on the homepage/category pages, etc.. (for each post)
Show notice in the RSS feed: Whether to show the notice in the RSS feed
Redirect comments page: If you want to, you can keep the comments page on your own site. Default is to redirect to the external link.
Show only excerpts: Since you’re linking to an external site, you may decide that you only want to show an excerpt. If you haven’t added an excerpt, but still only want to show partial content, choose “Yes, always” and the plugin will automatically create an excerpt for you.
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10 Responses
it’s a good idea, just i’d like if you can to add some screenshot about how this plugin work…
Thanks
Great plugin!
Any live examples?
Maybe I am a newbie in this kind of things. I don’t understand why this is necessary. Why can’t we use the link given by wordpress?
Just tried it out and seems to work like a champ. Great job.
However… Anyway to get it to work on Pages as well? This is actually the place where I think a lot of people need it i.e. they want their “Blog” page to go to an external site, or their “Store” etc. I have not found a solution that works as well for that as what you have put together for the posts. Any ideas as to where to find something like this? Will check back and see what else you are up to. Again, nice Plugin!
My guess is that it works like the tinyurl in twitter posts. It takes the www. whatever and makes in into a tinyurl/343987 or something like that. I am about to try it.
May I have example for plugins is work
how to use target”_blank” ?
This is a great plugin but it messes up the “next post” “last post” navigation on your site because you end up on the external link and there is no way to navigate beyond the post on the original site.
I installed this but now that I removed the plugin the links are still external. If I use get_permalink() or the_permalink() it displays the external link. How can I fix this?
hi,
your external permalink plugin works cool like anyother. i thank for crfeating such a good plugin. And i have two questions
1) i want to open the external link in a new window? what i want to do?
2) i`m going to use this plugin in p2 theme by matt or twitterwp theme, i want to display this external link text box in some where so i need the code to display it.
so, i kindly request you to share the solution for above two questions here or to my email.
thanks in advance.
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