I found a nice WordPress plugin today that takes some of the headaches out of placing page links inside of WordPress pages and posts. It can be a real pain to include links in the body of a page during testing/development, and then to change them all on launch, and then to change them all again if you ever need to move the site to a different domain.

The Permalinker lets you use WP shortcodes in your page/post content that automatically update your links if you ever need to change the base URL for a site. There’s also a handy shortcode for the current template directory, making it very easy to link to or display images included in a theme rather than in the “standard” uploads directory.

This seems to be much easier than using a plugin to allow PHP execution from within pages and posts, and then using the native PHP permalink functions in WordPress. We’ll see how it goes…