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A WordPress plugin that lets editors assign short, top-level redirect slugs to pages directly from the post quick edit panel.

How it works

A quick link is a short, memorable path (e.g. /link) that redirects visitors to an existing page regardless of where that page lives in the page hierarchy. The redirect is a 301 Permanent Redirect.

• A new Quick Link column appears in the Pages list.
• Editors set or clear the slug via the built-in Quick Edit panel.
• On the frontend, any matching top-level request that would otherwise produce a 404 is silently redirected to the target page.
• WordPress's slug uniqueness logic is extended so that no page can claim a permalink slug already in use as a quick link.

Requirements

Installation

1. Upload the easy-quicklinks folder to wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin via Plugins → Installed Plugins.
3. No further configuration is required.

Usage

1. Go to Pages in the WordPress admin.
2. Hover over a page and click Quick Edit.
3. Enter a slug in the Quick Link field (lowercase letters and dashes only, e.g. testskolan).
4. Click Update.

The quick link is immediately live. Visiting https://example.com/testskolan will redirect to the target page.

To remove a quick link, open Quick Edit and clear the field, then click Update.

Slug format

Quick link slugs must match the pattern [a-z][a-z-]* — they start with a lowercase letter and contain only lowercase letters and dashes. No numbers, no uppercase, no special characters.

Conflict prevention

The plugin registers a filter on wp_unique_post_slug so that WordPress will never assign a page a permalink slug that is already claimed by a quick link belonging to another page. If a conflict is detected, WordPress appends a numeric suffix to the new page's slug instead.

Integrations

• Nested Pages — the quick link field is available in Nested Pages quick edit, uses the same validation as the built-in WordPress quick edit, and prevents duplicate quick links or conflicts with top-level page slugs.

Translations

The plugin ships with a Swedish (sv_SE) translation. Additional translations can be placed in languages/ following the standard WordPress naming convention (easy-quicklinks-{locale}.po/.mo).

License

GPL-2.0-or-later