New content category: Internal Link

[Michael AC]

Hi all,

when creating a new page you can choose between the categories

• Content
• Link
• Section Header
• Separator
• News

How about adding a new content category "Internal Link"?

When using the "Link" category an absolute link like "http://www.domain.com/somewhere/blubb" is required.

But now I need to link to an web projects internal page. During development phase I'm using some special test paths. Now I have to link to this path directly, and after release I have to change this entry again (hopefully remembering to do that...).

It would be more flexible and less vulnerable to go-live-errors to use some kind of internal link tags.

Best regards from Germany
Michael

[amygdela]

that's a brilliant suggestion!

[calguy1000]

well... although it would be nice to have a funky pulldown where we can select our page, we can alredy do this.

Select content-type = link
and in the url field, I entered: index.php?page=contact_us

and it just worked.

So if you're using mod_rewrite, and/or pretty url's and the page you want to view is
www.domain.com/contact-us

then I guess you could just enter 'contact-us' in the url field.

[Michael AC]

Hi calguy1000,

well... although it would be nice to have a funky pulldown where we can select our page, we can alredy do this.

Select content-type = link
and in the url field, I entered: index.php?page=contact_us

and it just worked.

THX! I've tried it and it worked perfectly with "index.php/home"!

Personally I'd prefer the "funky pulldown"  but that's a very practicable solution too!

For the moment... because if someone needs to change the page title i.e. from "home" to "start" (ok, this is far from reality, but think about SMO where page titles are critical to GPR) you have to remember to change this link again. Is there something like an internal page id the internal link could be connected to?

Best regards from Germany
Michael

[calguy1000]

These links work on page aliases not page titles, so as long as you don't change the alias you'll be fine.