Creating links to permalinks | WordPress.org

davemcc
(@davemcc)

14 years, 2 months ago

Hi

Can anyone advise me how to make a link to a particular permalink?

By this I mean:

I create a manual link to a page currently found at: http://www.mysite.com/forum thusly – Forum

Is there a way that I can link to a particular WP permalink so that if I change the forums URL in WP the manual link will still link through??

Thanks

Dave

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MichaelH
(@michaelh)

14 years, 2 months ago

Not sure what you mean, but you can use the Pages Link To plugin to redirect a WordPress page or post to another URL:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

Thread Starter davemcc
(@davemcc)

14 years, 2 months ago

Sorry I didnt make that clear!

Say I am making a template for a certain page and add a link to a page in my WP site such as http://www.mysite.com/forum it will be a static

What i need is a way to link to the /forum page but not using the URL but dynamically.

Soooo if I change the forum page permalink to http://www.mysite.com/forumsforall the link I made automatically points there…

Hope that makes sense…

Thanks for the response MichaelH
MichaelH
(@michaelh)

14 years, 2 months ago
I don’t see a way of doing that dynamically unless you put the link in a custom field then in your Page Template so something like:
```
<?php
$link = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link_url', true);
$text = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link_text', true);
if ($link){
echo 'Forum: <a href="'.$link .'">'.$text.'</a>';
}
?>
```
Thread Starter davemcc
(@davemcc)

14 years, 2 months ago

Cheers MichaelH

I shall take a look into that..

Thanks

Dave

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