Easy Linking with the Redirect Function

You can make easy links from any page to another page by using the “Redirect” function to create a one-word shortcut. For example, since we only have one Beth in our family, I’ve made a page called Beth that automatically redirects to the page Elizabeth Joan Gumnick. Here’s all you have to do:

1. Suppose you want to make the word “quotations” automatically go to the Who said that? page. Type the text that contains the word:

   Take a look at these Gumnick quotations.

2. Now select the word “quotations” and click the Internal Link button, or just type double brackets around it:

   Take a look at these Gumnick [[quotations]].

3. Now save the page. You’ll see a red link:

   Take a look at these Gumnick quotations.

4. Click on the red (broken) link, which will take you to a page that says:

   You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info). If you are here by mistake, just click your browser's back button.

5. In the editing box, type the redirect command, followed by the name of the page to which you want “quotations” to point:

   #redirect [[Who said that?]]

6. Save the page. When you return to the original page you were working on, “quotations” will now be a blue (functioning) link that will take you to the Who said that? page.

Now, on any other page in the site, you can select the word “quotations“ and turn it into an internal link with one click whenever you want ti to point to the Who said that? page.

I’ve already set up redirect pages for a lot of our names: Anne, Beth, Dad, Ed, John, Lori, Mary, Mom, etc. Eventually, we should have them for every family member and popular topics. But you have to be a little careful, because although right now, we might want “wedding” to point to the Gumnick-Jones Wedding, we’ll eventually have pages about other past and future weddings. We should try to make sure that shortcuts are unambiguous. (Making Dad a shortcut, for example, may end up being confusing, since some site visitors may think of Dad “Gan-Gan” or “Dr. Gumnick.”) —Ed