[okfn-help] Redirecting links in Wordpress

Tue Dec 6 16:48:55 UTC 2011

Hi guys,

Selections from this email are copied verbatim here:

http://wiki.okfn.org/Technical/Wordpress#Redirects

Perhaps Kat, could you take a look and add any additional details needed?

Lucy

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Did a bit of investigative work on the OKFN.org and OGDcamp.org WP admins,
> and it looks like in fact we have 'Quick Page/Post Redirect' installed on
> those themes, not the one Tom mentioned below (for some reason). Here is
> the plugin:
> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/
>
> Once you've downloaded it, it gives you an easy set of options below the
> feed for each page such as:
> Make Redirect *Active*. (check to turn on)
> Open redirect link in a *new window.*
> Add *rel=\"nofollow\"* to redirect link.
> *Show* the Redirect URL below in the link instead of this page URL
>
> This should allow you to do the actions you've asked for below. (To try it
> out feel free to check it on one of the OGDcamp pages).
>
> Hope this helps more :)
>
> Kat
>
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>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> No. Tom Rees also suggested this:
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
>>
>> But its not clear to us which one to use or what people's experience
>> has been in doing this.
>>
>> Definitely something to write up in the handbook! ;-)
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Is this the same convo that was happening in the chat? Has it now been
>> > answered?
>> >
>> > Lucy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is it this? ;-)
>> >>
>> >> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Lucy, Daniel, Kat: how does one redirect links in Wordpress?
>> >> >
>> >> > We have created this, and sent it out to a bunch of people:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/us-letter-size-posters/
>> >> >
>> >> > But we now want to change this to:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity
>> >> >
>> >> > With sub pages at:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity/a4-posters
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity/us-letter-posters
>> >> >
>> >> > That means in future we can have things like:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity/stickers
>> >> > http://publicdomainreview.org/publicity/etc
>> >> >
>> >> > We're trying to do this now - so any help would be much appreciated!
>> >> >
>> >> > J.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Jonathan Gray
>> >> >
>> >> > Community Coordinator
>> >> > The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >> > http://www.okfn.org
>> >> >
>> >> > http://twitter.com/jwyg
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jonathan Gray
>> >>
>> >> Community Coordinator
>> >> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> >> http://www.okfn.org
>> >>
>> >> http://twitter.com/jwyg
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Lucy Chambers
>> > Community Coordinator
>> > Open Knowledge Foundation
>> > http://okfn.org/
>> > Skype: lucyfediachambers
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
>>
>> http://twitter.com/jwyg
>>
>
>

-- 
Lucy Chambers
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: lucyfediachambers
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