manton
manton

Micro.blog has a couple options for creating redirects, but adding pages to your blog navigation that go somewhere else hasn’t been intuitive before now. I’ve added a new option that makes this much more discoverable.

Screenshot creating a redirect with a blog page title.
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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@manton Nice! That makes a lot of sense. In the future could this be added to existing redirects?

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For folks who are unaware, you can do this by:

  • going to the web ->
  • selecting Pages ->
  • selecting New Redirect.
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lucas
lucas

@manton thanks for this! I forget how to do this at least once every few months via the page and URL. This is so much more handy.

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odd
odd

@manton Cool! Just tried it.

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esamecar@social.lol
esamecar@social.lol

@manton I’ve tried this several times before and was of the opinion that it was just not possible. Would be nice if this option was available for existing ones; but deleting and re-adding worked fine. Thanks.

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maique
maique

@manton Wow! Added one today (still old method), after months (years?) without touching the navigation links. Could have waited a couple hours more, to try this.

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@esamecar In case you haven't tried, this method should work:

  • Take your existing redirect ->
  • Create a new page ->
  • Put in only the URL for the redirect ->
  • Check the box to include this page in the navigation ->
  • Publish.
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pratik
pratik

@manton Nice. I see that it also works for pages that are not necessarily Micro.blog Pages

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esamecar@social.lol
esamecar@social.lol

@SimonWoods thanks

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manton
manton

@maique That's okay, the new interface essentially creates the identical links and redirects as before, just much easier to understand.

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manton
manton

@esamecar Thanks. Yep, I thought about editing but decided deleting / re-add is simple enough for now.

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