Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin Update
I just finished the latest update to the very popular ‘Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin.” I’ve been very busy lately, so I have been working on this in the “spare time” of my spare time – which literally works out to about a minute here and a minute there.
But with a few cups of coffee and a late night, I finally decided to finish it and get it out there since it seems that everyone must have read the same SEO article about putting rel=”nofollow” attributes in link tags to keep the search engines from following the links. I’ve received a slew of comments and just as many emails from people asking for that and a few other things. So here it is – the newly revised Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin.
Here’s what’s new:
- I’ve added an option to add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to the redirect.
- I’ve added an option to have the redirect link open in a new window.
- I’ve added an option to show the redirect URL in the link instead of the original URL that the original page permalink links to.
- And last but not least, I cleaned up the custom fields to use what I call, “hidden meta data” so that they are not cluttering up the Custom Field box.
Check out the plugin page to see more. Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions.
What’s Up with 2.9.2?
The latest Upgrade to WordPress is 2.9.2. The folks at WP decided to release a quick patch for security reasons as they found out that in 2.9.1, logged in users could peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash then 2.9.2 is a MUST for you.
For everyone else – should you upgrade? As I always say, it’s better to upgrade then to wait and find out that you were hit with a security problem. So upgrade at your earliest convenience, and do it before that little old lady that you thought was no threat, reads all those trashy posts you wrote about her – thinking she would never read them because you threw them in the trash! If you set your Trash functionality to off, (see Take Out The New Years Trash), then don’t worry about it – she will never get to read them anyway.
Helping Out – A “Related Post-type” Plugin
I had the opportunity to work with a excellent plugin developer this past week. It was not something I set out to do, but when a user of one of my plugins came to me with a problem they were having, it ended up taking a turn in a different direction.