WPI Redirect Shortcode seo plugin

Simple shortcode for making safe external redirect. Made this for those SEOware user.

introduction

Wordpress 2.5 introduce new function for adding shortcode (aka bbcode). A simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post content. It just make developing plugins much easier and neat. If you want to digg more about WordPress shortcode check out the [wpi_redirect href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API"]WordPress Codex Shortcode API[/wpi_redirect] .

Shortcode

[wpi_redirect attribute="value"]text[/wpi_redirect]

attributes:

with default values

• href = #content
• title = redirect
• rel = external noarchive
• class = curie

if there is no “text” the default value is “Link”.

Example

redirect links to wordpress.org

[wpi_redirect href="http://wordpress.org" rel="noarchive"]WordPress.org[/wpi_redirect]

results → [wpi_redirect href="http://wordpress.org" rel="noarchive"]WordPress.org[/wpi_redirect]

Wp-iStalker Custom Wordpress Hook

The WordPress Filter Hook for our redirect shortcode.

wpi_redirect_shortcode

This hook return raw html output.
see: KaizekuShortCode::redirectCallback().

Lo, the do and dont

• When to used redirect links?

  This depends on your content & context as whole. If the external sites that you are linking doesn’t have any weight with your content. So is best to used redirect links instead of the normal links.

• When NOT to used redirect links?

  I’ve encounter some damaging issue with certain Wordpress Translation Plugins. Because of the relative links, the translation scripts might create a local cache of the external sites in your server. Its a complete mirror of wasted sources. so beware. You might get penalized for duplicate content proxy hacking. scarry.

External Links

• Must read → Shortcode Limitation