Description

Sticky Links – WP Multilingual

The Sticky Links plugin keeps internal links from ever breaking. It automatically tracks linked pages in your site and keeps all incoming links up-to-date. When you change permalink structure, hierarchy and even page slugs, all incoming links update immediately.

When you add a regular link to a page or a post, WordPress saves the URL of that page as the link. This means, if the URL changes, the link is broken.

WordPress makes it all too easy to change page addresses, causing all incoming links to go broke (404 error). Here are a few ways to do that:

Change the page’s parent
Change the slug
Change the site’s permalink structure
Sticky Links – WP Multilingual prevents changes in URLs from breaking incoming links. When you create a link, automatically makes it Sticky. Instead of storing the URL of that page (at the time the link was created), it stores the page number. This can never change, no matter what you do.

Then, when the page is displayed, Sticky Links – WP Multilingual inserts the permalink of the page you’re linking to. Whenever the URL changes all pages linking to it update immediately and will link to the correct address.

This screen shot shows how internal links look like in the database, once Sticky links are enabled:

Links turned Sticky by Sticky Links – WP Multilingual
Your users will never see these “strange” links. Instead, Sticky Links – WP Multilingual will replace them with the current permalinks when displaying the pages.

Once you enable the Sticky Links module, you can control what strings it handles. Go to Sticky links.

By default,Sticky Links – WP Multilingual will turn all links in post body to sticky. You can also turn links in widgets and strings to sticky.

Sticky Links – WP Multilingual will let you batch replace all regular links to sticky links. It will also report any existing broken links and help fix them.

If you’ve enabled Sticky Links after creating some content, links in that existing content are not immediately turned into Sticky.

The Sticky Links admin screen tells you home much content may include normal (not Sticky) links.Sticky Links – WP Multilingual can scan that content and convert all links to Sticky. Click on the Scan button to do that.

You can always return your links to regular (not Sticky) by clicking on ‘Revert sticky links to permalinks‘