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Have you ever wanted your Wordpress Pages to link to something besides a page? Perhaps another website, a particular post, or an archive of a category?

Dave Stewart made this great page template that will redirect your Wordpress Page to any url. Here’s how you do it:

1. Download the Page Redirect Template and put it in your theme directory
2. Just create a new page, type in the url you want to go in the editor
3. Select Page Redirect from the Page Template menu

Now this page will be included with other pages that are rendered by the wp_list_pages() function, but go to any url. Sure you could code those links into your template, but this make it pretty easy to manage.

Here’s a short list of plugins I find incredibly helpful to maintaining my Wordpress sites:

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on “Manage” then “Pages” to edit pages, go to any admin page from any admin page.

Admin Management Xtended

As a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn’t a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That’s what this plugin helps to do.

It adds some icons to the posts/pages management panel with AJAX-driven CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page, plus changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more.

Audio Player

Audio Player provides you with a simple way of inserting a stylish Flash mp3 player on your WordPress posts and pages.

Features include configurable colour scheme, enclosure integration, runtime options such as autostart and loop and ID3 tag integration.

WP Easy Uploader

WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

Exclude Pages

This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).