Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin
June 21, 2007 – 3:00 pm | by Miriam SchwabSince I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it’s become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I’m using WordPress to create a CMS. I’ve reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that they have added a great features which was lacking in the previous version.
First, let’s just review what this plugin does: it allows you to create a Page, and then have that page link to any URL anywhere on the web. I mostly use it to link Pages in my navigation bar to Categories, or posts, but you could theoretically link a Page to any other page on the web.
It seems that in the new version, Pages links in the navigation are now highlighted when you click on them, even if they are linking using the plugin. This means that if you set a CSS style so that the current page you are on looks different in the navigation, this will apply also when the Page links using this plugin.
I highly recommend checking out this plugin…
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7 Responses to “Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin”
By mi on Jun 30, 2007 | Reply
I can’t get it to work…
By Miriam on Jul 1, 2007 | Reply
Mi – can you explain what you’re doing so that I can try to understand what’s wrong? Thanks.
By Black Hornet on Jan 7, 2008 | Reply
Works like a charm. Now I just have to figure out a use for it
By Nnyan on Jun 18, 2009 | Reply
How do you use this plugin to display Categories on a page in your nav bar?
Thank you
By Ranbir on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
Hi, Miriam
But do you think whether it’s safe for the search engines??? Won’t it be duplicate content??? As the category page and the page that we are creating with this plugin will have the same page due to 301 or 302 redirect. Please help me.
By Miriam Schwab on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
@Ranbir When pages are redirected to other pages with a 301 redirect, it’s as if the two pages are the same in the eyes of the search engines. The search engine reindexes the pages so that the first page ceases to exist, and the second new page takes its place in terms of rankings, inbound links, etc. We recently 301 redirected this whole blog from wordpressgarage.com to wpgarage.com. We wrote up about it here: http://wpgarage.com/tips/wordpress-301-redirect/.