Did you see other sites link to external posts from their post title? Well that is because it is completely useless to create a new post where inside you are going to tell users to go to another site to read it. You are wasting your user’s time. This trick will allow you to link to external links from your post title in WordPress.
First open your functions.php file and add the following codes in there:
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function print_post_title() { |
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$thePostID = $post ->ID; |
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$post_id = get_post( $thePostID ); |
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$title = $post_id ->post_title; |
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$perm = get_permalink( $post_id ); |
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$post_keys = array (); $post_val = array (); |
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$post_keys = get_post_custom_keys( $thePostID ); |
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if (! empty ( $post_keys )) { |
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foreach ( $post_keys as $pkey ) { |
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if ( $pkey == 'url1' || $pkey == 'title_url' || $pkey == 'url_title' ) { |
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$post_val = get_post_custom_values( $pkey ); |
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if ( empty ( $post_val )) { |
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echo '<h2><a href="' . $link . '" rel="bookmark" title="' . $title . '">' . $title . '</a></h2>' ; |
These codes must be placed in php tags.
Then open your index.php and find the following code:
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<h2><a href= "<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel= "bookmark" ><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> |
And replace it with:
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<?php print_post_title(); ?> |
This can also be accomplished by a use of a plugin called Page Links To.
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