How to Point WordPress Page and Post to Some External Link

By Sanjeev Shrivastava Our Bestseller: WordPress Themes

There are times when you want your WordPress page/blog should point to a different link outside of your WordPress site. To some other resources!

You would have observed whenever you create a new post or page WordPress automatically generates its URL based on permalink settings.

Suppose you want your WordPress to point to some other site e.g. 13 Plugins. Then what would you do? Fortunately there’s a small cool plugin named “Page Links To” which does this simple task easily for you. It helps to link WordPress pages post to URL of your choice.

Effects Of External Linking

It’s Simple. Every WordPress blogger wants to share there blogging resources to world wide. Suppose you are a blogger who owns multiple blog While linking the blogs or pages to WordPress external links, bloggers can share blogs to resources of their choice.

This WordPress Plugin “Page Links To plugin” helps to link WordPress Page Post to External Link, Url of  other website.

How to customize WordPress blog page link to External Link?

To use this plugin, firstly install it from your WordPress dashboard then activate it. Now when you will create a new post or page for your blog this plugin will add an additional option of adding link at the bottom of page similar to this:

If your new page/post is a normal WordPress page or post then you don’t need to bother, but if your new post/page is going to point some external link then go to the option given by this plugin.

Select “An alternate URL” for “Point this content to” option. Enter the URL you wanted to point to and also check the box if you want URL to open in a new window.

This is a helpful plugin for setting up navigational links to non-WordPress sections of your site. It also redirects users who go to normal or old WordPress URL to new one you have selected.

You can also use it to create a hand-crafted menu that links to pages, posts, categories, or anything within your site.

Point to External URL using Custom Menu:

Just for information to beginners, you can create custom menu and then you can define custom link to which menu will point. To do this you will not need this plugin, simply create a menu from “Menu” options under “Appearance” tab. Then create new menu item and add it to menu.

Conclusion -

For sure, you can use this productive “Page Links To Plugin” to share to other resources.  The plugin is a useful resource that shows how to link to external links from the post title in WordPress.

For external linking efficiently and smartly, you can use this WordPress Plugin.

Also you can share some plugins which you use for external navigation down below.

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