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Customizing Pretty Link Options – Part 2

by Blair Williams on May 28, 2009 · 5 comments

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This is the third tutorial on how to use the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. In this one I go over the Ultra-Cloak, Nofollow and Redirect-Type options. Next week I’ll finish up the link option tutorial series by showing you the pretty link tracking options and parameter forwarding.

Sweet — now we’re getting somewhere! If you still have issues, just drop a comment on this page.

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Horace G May 28, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Very interesting stuff about the 301 redirect. I never knew that the temp redirect could be bad. I also didn’t know anything about canonical links and its soooo cool you can set this stuff up in pretty link!

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Les June 22, 2009 at 10:43 am

Nice tutorial. I did find the video quality to be a bit “off”. Seems like your Vimeo videos come out better.

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Rolograaf June 25, 2009 at 4:32 am

Thanks for the interesting vids!
Found out there is a Wordpress plugin for canonical links:
http://yoast.com/wordpress/canonical/
But maybe easier is changing the template myself: http://wpengineer.com/relcanonical-url-for-wordpress-theme/
Or ask Blair for an extra feature to the Pretty Link maybe?

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Blair Williams June 28, 2009 at 6:18 pm

haha … That plugin should be great and if your theme doesn’t include canonical links then this is a great option … I prefer using a theme that does this out of the box (like thesis) but if you don’t want to switch themes then this plugin is fantastic.

Peter July 28, 2009 at 3:38 am

Hi Blair,
Great Plugin! If I use the ‘Nofollow’ option on a link, when I add the link to my WP Theme and view source, should I be able to see the ‘Nofollow’ tag in the link or is it “handled” behind the scenes from the code?

Thanks,
Peter

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