Do “Linked Lists” exist in WP?

  • Stokkes

    (@stokkes)


    18 years ago

    Hey everyone,

    I’m just curious to know whether it’s possible (either built-in to WP or through a plugin) to create what is called a “Linked List”, which is basically a post that doesn’t have a permalink, but instead the title of the article links directly to an outside URL.

    I believe MovableType has this, but I haven’t seen any similar functionality in WP. They’re basically used to link to other articles on the web while making “small” comments on them but not associating a complete post to them.

    Just curious.

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years ago

    Not a core capability. However, it could be done either via a plugin or with some theme edits.

    If I were going to do it, I’d tackle it with Custom Fields. Using_Custom_Fields would be a good place to start, and there exist some plugins to help out as well.

    Thread Starter Stokkes

    (@stokkes)

    18 years ago

    I actually found this :

    http://www.istudioweb.com/hacking-wordpress-theme-external-url-for-post-title-2008-01-12/

    Works well for the most part (except for being a royal pain in the ass to do) and I’d have to hack it up a bit to get it to work exactly the way I want it, but for the most part, it does work.

    Except the RSS feed. When you click the link from the RSS feed, it goes to my site instead of the URL. I guess ideally I wouldn’t want an actual post created when I link stuff.. not even sure if this is possible.

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