Title: What does this plugin do?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# What does this plugin do?

 *  Resolved [mirgcire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirgcire/)
 * (@mirgcire)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-does-this-plugin-do-3/)
 * What does this plugin provide that can’t be done with a simple anchor tag.
 * Sorry to be so retarded, but I am looking a feature that will allow me to cross-
   link some of my pages in a way that will allow me to represent them as a table
   of contents.
 * It sounds like this plugin might be helpful, but figure out what it does.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
 * (@markjaquith)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-does-this-plugin-do-3/#post-5636184)
 * Well, it actually changes the URL that the post or page points to. So, say you
   have a blog. But your friend asked you to write something over at her blog. You
   could write a small post on your blog that says (in the content) “hey, I wrote
   this thing on Jessica’s blog, here’s a link: `<a href="http://jessica.example/
   post/">Post for Jessica</a>"`. Or, you could write a post called “Post for Jessica”
   maybe fill in the excerpt as a teaser, and then use Page Links To to point it
   to`http://jessica.example/post/`. Then people would be reading your blog, and
   that post excerpt would show up on the front page, and if they clicked the title,
   they’d be at the post on Jessica’s blog. So it allows you to integrate external
   URLs in ways other than just putting links in post content.
 * Another use use is in menus, or in automated page lists.
 * Another use case is when you want to “move” a specific post from one site to 
   another. Because anyone with the old URL will get a redirect. So, say you had
   some cool photo posts but then started a separate photo blog. You could use this
   to redirect them.
 * I’m not sure if this is the right use for cross-linking posts. You might want
   to look for a “series” plugin, of which there are a few. They generally use taxonomies
   behind the scenes you group your posts into collections. Here’s one example: 
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/organize-series/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/organize-series/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-does-this-plugin-do-3/#post-5636184)
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