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Wordpress Plug-in- Page Links to

Posted by Admin on February 22, 2009 at 10:21 am

I got an e-mail the other day asking how I made the Toolbar page on the site link to the download page of the toolbar.  If you don’t know what I mean click the Toolbar button and you will see. I thought this might help out some of you, so I decided to make a blog post and not just reply to the e-mail.

By default Wordpress  doesn’t have the option to link a Wordpress page you create via the Wordpress dashboard to an external URL, meaning a website anywhere on the web. This is very useful if you want to link to let’s say your twitter or youtube and you don’t want to make a page with a link in it but you want the button to just link to that page. This is very easy to do with a Wordpress plug- in that you can download and install on your blog, this plug-in is called “Page Links to”.

Download “Page Links to” here

Once you install and activate this plug-in all you have to do is make a page from your Wordpress dashboard and under the text box you should have a new tab at the very bottom titled “Page Links to” click to expand it and just type in the URL of the website you want the page to link to, don’t forget the http:// or it will NOT work. That’s it now the button will link to the URL of your choice.

Here are just step by step instructions I found on the developer’s website:

1. Upgrade to WordPress 2.6 or higher
2. Upload page-links-to.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the “Page Links To” plugin in your WordPress administration interface
4. Create (or edit) a page to have a title of your choosing, and a parent page of your choosing (leave the content blank — it won’t be used)
5. Down below, find the Page Links To meta box and add the URL you’d like it to link to