Title: Plugin for aggregating?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin for aggregating?

 *  [tcama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcama/)
 * (@tcama)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-aggregating/)
 * I’m trying to find out if there’s a plugin to do a very specific task I’m thinking
   of. Calling it an “aggregating” plugin isn’t quite right, so hear me out.
 * Many websites (usually news sites) have headlines and/or post previews on their
   front page that actually link to another site. So it looks exactly like you’re
   about to click on that site’s post, but it goes to another site. The Huffington
   Post, for example, does this all the time.
 * Is there a way to do this in WordPress? Essentially, I’d like to be able to create
   a post and put in a headline and excerpt, but have it link somewhere else. Could
   this be a post type perhaps?

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 *  [Slobodan Manic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slobodanmanic/)
 * (@slobodanmanic)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-aggregating/#post-2287906)
 * tcama,
 * What you could do is use a custom field for this “custom URL”. Something like
   this:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'customurl', true ) ) {
           $link = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'customurl', true );
       } else {
           $link = get_permalink();
       } ?>
       <h1><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Slobodan Manic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slobodanmanic/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-for-aggregating/#post-2287906)
 * Status: not a support question

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