On Kommons Ryan Sholin asked me how I created a link blog option on one of my old themes for this site. Ryan was looking for a way to redirect post permalinks to a specific URL like the Daring Fireball linked list.
I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin, unimaginatively called WP Linkblog, that will do just that. It looks for a custom field titled linkblog_url
and if that exists filters the permalink to redirect to that URL.
By default the plugin filters both RSS items and the_permalink
in the theme. To remove the redirection on your site just remove add_filter('post_link', 'wplinkblog_permalink')
Find the whole thing over on Github. Enjoy Ryan!
Comments
Thanks for this. I’ve tried other plugins in WP and they always try to do too much. What I want is just what you’ve created. Now if you could only include the link box in Just Write, you’d have solved every problem there is in blogging, ever.
Hey Andrew,
Thanks for putting this together.
The one question I have, and I may be a little dense, relates to the post title and the permalink of my blog.
For instance, I see that the post title links to the external site I’m trying to link to, but I can’t actually preserve the permalink on my own site.
Is this possible in the plugin?
Thanks,
Derek
It’s possible but involves a bit of template editing. It’s been a long while since I used the plugin myself.
It might be better to use the built-in link post format that WordPress includes. Post formats didn’t exist when I initially wrote this plugin.