Title: Direct link
Author: maxpagels
Published: <strong>December 4, 2015</strong>
Last modified: December 2, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Direct link

 By [maxpagels](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxpagels/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/direct-link.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/direct-link/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/direct-link/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/direct-link/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/direct-link/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/direct-link/)

## Description

Direct link allows your post title permalinks to link directly to external sites.
It can also be used to link to a particular page of your own site.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `directlink` directory and its contents to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. When writing a post, add a custom field with the key ‘direct_link’. The value should
    be the full URL (including http://) of the page
     you want to link to

## FAQ

  The plugin doesn’t work!

Direct link makes use of the `post_link` filter in WordPress. If your theme doesn’t
use the `get_permalink()` function to retrieve post permalinks, the plugin will 
not work.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Direct link” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ maxpagels ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxpagels/)

[Translate “Direct link” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/direct-link)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/direct-link/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/direct-link/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/direct-link/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/direct-link/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First version, hooray!

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tag
 * [links](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/direct-link/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ maxpagels ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maxpagels/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/direct-link/)