WPML Sticky Links Addon 1.5.4

WPML Sticky Hyperlinks Addon prevents hyperlinks between pages and posts from ever breaking, even when pages transfer and get renamed.

WordPress makes all of it too straightforward to alter web page addresses, inflicting all incoming hyperlinks to go broke (404 error). Listed here are just a few methods to try this:

• Change the web page’s dad or mum
• Change the slug
• Change the location’s permalink construction

WPML prevents adjustments in URLs from breaking incoming hyperlinks. While you create a hyperlink, WPML mechanically makes it Sticky. As an alternative of storing the URL of that web page (on the time the hyperlink was created), it shops the web page quantity. This could by no means change, it doesn’t matter what you do. Then, when the web page is displayed, WPML inserts the permalink of the web page you might be linking to. Each time the URL adjustments all pages linking to it replace instantly and can hyperlink to the right deal with. The next screenshots present how inner hyperlinks appear to be within the database, as soon as Sticky Hyperlinks are enabled. Your customers won’t ever see these “unusual” hyperlinks. As an alternative, WPML will exchange them with the present permalinks when displaying the pages.

Sticky hyperlinks controls

When you allow the Sticky Hyperlinks module, you may management what strings it handles. To do that, go to the WPML -> Sticky hyperlinks web page. By default, WPML will flip all hyperlinks in put up physique to sticky. You can even flip hyperlinks in widgets and strings to sticky. WPML will allow you to batch exchange all common hyperlinks to sticky hyperlinks. It’s going to additionally report any current damaged hyperlinks and assist repair them. If in case you have enabled Sticky Hyperlinks after creating some content material, hyperlinks in that current content material are usually not instantly became Sticky. The Sticky Hyperlinks admin display tells you ways a lot content material might embody regular (not Sticky) hyperlinks. WPML can scan that content material and convert all hyperlinks to Sticky. Click on on the Scan button to try this. You possibly can at all times return your hyperlinks to common (not Sticky) by clicking on Revert sticky URLs to permalinks.

Linking to pages in a distinct language

Generally, you would possibly wish to insert a hyperlink to a web page that’s in one other language. Since Sticky Hyperlinks adjusts the hyperlinks mechanically, it would forestall you from doing this and modify the hyperlink to level to the identical language as an alternative. To have the ability to add hyperlinks to pages in different languages, you could add the next filter to your theme’s features.php file. Within the above code, use the $blacklist array to specify all of the URL slugs for the pages within the authentic languages that you simply wish to hyperlink to. In our instance, we wish to hyperlink to English model of “Documentation” (slug “documentation”) and “Web page Builders” (slug “page-builders”) pages, so we use the next two traces: