WordPress Ideas » Topic: Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls

Jen Mylo on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Jen Mylo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:47:02 +0000

I would also like to see linking to existing text content from within a post be as easy in core as inserting an existing image. This would make a good GSoC project.

porle on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

porle — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:05:14 +0000

I agree this is a fundamental requirment. Why not just list all the post / page names in the Insert / Edit Links dialouge box that appears when the link button is clicked on the visual editor? It already has drop downs for classes so its able to access static content from a file. I dont think its a huge leap to access similar info from the database.

Anyway, it seems some plugins do similar, i will try them out.

net38 on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

net38 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:27:01 +0000

The ability to quickly cross reference posts within the same blog seems rather fundamental to me. I just started out with my blog, and after only only a few posts I already wanted to write a new post that referred back to an earlier one. It would be great if there was a built in way to do this more easily than by pasting the URL (and which was immune to permalink structure changes).

mdocter on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

mdocter — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:23:16 +0000

Hi there! I ran into the same problem. I can't understand why WP isn't adding this as a default feature. Luckily, after a very very very long search, I found this plugin:

http://www.blograndom.com/blog/extras/rb-internal-links-plugin/

It can use some visual upgrade, but it does what it should do.

Good luck! I hope this helps.

Maarten Docter

sciamannikoo on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

sciamannikoo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:43:34 +0000

I think that with FCKEditor would be easy (for a developer) to implement an additional interface for the link button, showing a list of posts.
This would be the best way for illiterate users, but also for lazy people like me :D

Ahmet Topal on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Ahmet Topal — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:32:52 +0000

I think, its very easy and you dont need any plugin...

You have written, that the permalink can change... but there is one, that leaves ever, use this if you want:

yourdomain.com/?p=ID after a slash in your domain write ?p= and then the id of the Post, then if you change the structure, the link will leave...

my Idea...

I'm on the way to write one easier plugin for that, i will give the link

Justin Tadlock on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:58:23 +0000

I very seriously doubt you'd see something like this integrated with a one-click button. A plugin is about the best you can probably hope for.

The shortcode API was actually made for less-advanced users. Advanced users would use PHP and the get_permalink() function to do this.

Malaiac on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Malaiac — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:40:50 +0000

plugins and shortcodes are ok for adv users.
My users are almost computer illiterate and still need to put lnks into their posts.
It should be integrated, with a one click button.

Justin Tadlock on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Justin Tadlock — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:55:08 +0000

I just wrote a plugin for this: Get Permalink plugin.

You can use shortcodes like this:

[permalink href="100"]Hello world[/permalink]

Justin Tadlock on "Easy way to link to another post without risking to break urls"

Justin Tadlock — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:44:44 +0000

<?php get_permalink('100'); ?>

Something like that should work, but you need a PHP plugin to write PHP within your posts.

This should be a really easy plugin to make with shortcodes. Something like this should work:

[permalink = "100"]

What do you think? I could probably quickly write something like this.