I am creating a wordpress site that is more or less a directory of top-notch articles. These post linking to the articles will be hand submitted by me personally. Okay, so my question. I know it is possible to make your Post titles an external link so that it could link to the default post. However, if i did this would the post themselves still be accessible via a url? I guess they would and it wouldn't make any since for them not to still show up on a "single page" basis. I wouldn't need viewers to be able to view the articles on a single page screen (as this wouldn't be possible with the title linking to an external site) they will simply browse by category. However, via the post's url it WOULD take you to the single post page (SEO purposes and indexing) Now - if all of that works correctly, how do i go a/bout linking my titles to an external url. Is there a plugin to do this seamlessly?
you can just insert external link to the post titles by adding a new custom field and replace <?php the_permalink(); ?> to <?php yourcustomfield ?> in your index.php, archive.php and single.php