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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.11: Random With Bias
This version of the free WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post comes with a new feature: You can now pick a random from all posts with a bias on a certain subsample. You determine the subsample as before with the parameters count and (optionally) offset. Normally, the random post would be picked from this subsample. …
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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.10: Random From a Subsample
This version of the free WordPress plugin Redirect URL to Post comes with a new feature: Until now, the parameter random always picked one out of the entire pool of posts (that match the search criteria). Now you can pick a random post from a subsample. The new parameter count lets you limit the pool …
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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.9: Go to 2nd, 3rd, etc. Post
The latest version of Redirect URL to Post adds a new feature that has been requested several times by users: Now you can redirect to the 2nd, 3rd, or any later position in the set of posts that match the criteria. Simply use the new parameter offset. Here is one example: This link would redirect …
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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.8: Caching
This release of the Redirect URL to Post plugin adds optional caching. The benefit of caching is increased speed and reduced burden on the database engine, particularly when using complicated query parameters or “random” on a huge number of posts. 1. In the URL Add the parameter “&cache=600” to the URL. The number is the …
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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.7: Ignore the Stickiness of Posts
The latest version of Redirect URL to Post improves the behavior when you have sticky posts. By default, WordPress puts sticky posts always on top of all other posts. That means that if you have sticky posts, the redirection always goes to the first of them. Since users expect sticky posts to behave like normal …
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Redirect URL to Post, Version 0.6: Filter by Relative Dates
The latest version of the Redirect to URL plugin adds two new query parameters, namely date_query_before and date_query_after. Both let you narrow down the scope of considered posts by setting a lower and/or an upper time limit. These parameters accept all values that can be understood by strtotime(), including relative formats, like “last monday” or “1 year ago”. …
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Redirect URL to Post: Button and Tracking
A new version (0.5) is out that comes with two new features: A button can be embedded with a shortcode to go to a random (or latest, …) post. Particularly redirecting to a random post helps to revive old posts and to increase page views – an important factor if you show ads on your …
Redirect URL to Post - Tag Groups Free
Both Plugins Updated
The Tag Groups plugin and the Redirect URL to Post plugin have both been updated today to new versions: Tag Groups The main change is the option to turn off the tag group filter on the tag admin page. You find that option in the plugin settings. This option is only relevant for a small …
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Redirect to Post, Version 0.3
This update of the Redirect to Post plugin consists of three parts: Option ‘default_redirect_to’ Until now, the default destination for the case that no post could be found was the blog’s home page (site_url). Now you can choose any other page or post by its ID. If it cannot be found, the home page will …
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A URL to the Latest Post
After three years I have published now another WordPress plugin: Redirect URL to Post. As before, the reason was that I couldn’t find any other plugin providing what I needed. What I needed was a link that I could use on other sites and that would redirect to the latest post in a particular category. …
