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My first WordPress plugin – Link Library

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I have been using WordPress as the engine behind my web log for almost a year now and find it’s been getting better all the time. However, there was one little piece of functionality that was missing for my needs, a way to create a link page from the data I entered in the links section of the admin area. I wanted to display links with large descriptions, a list of all link categories at the top of the page and a way to replace the description with the notes field since the notes field is longer and is contents are not displayed in the links admin page.

After looking around, I decided to create my own plugin to fill in the functionality that I needed. Version 0.1 of the Link Library for WordPress 1.5 is now available on the official WordPress plugin site. To see the plugin in action, take a look at the newly revamped links section on the site.

If there is anything you would like to see that is not there, feel free to drop me a note.

11 Comments to “My first WordPress plugin – Link Library”

• Blogging Pro » Blog Archive » WordPress Plugin: Link Library March 18, 2005 at 12:10 am

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  Jeff A March 18, 2005 at 11:32 am

  Awesome plugin, going to give it a try!
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  Geoff March 18, 2005 at 12:09 pm

  Unable to download your plugin. When I click the "Wordpress plugin site" link above, I get:

  <code>Trac detected an internal error:

  ('Attempted to get length of a *non*-file node', 160017)</code>

  and

  <code>Python traceback

  Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 525, in cgi_start

  real_cgi_start()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 520, in real_cgi_start

  dispatch_request(path_info, args, req, env)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 435, in dispatch_request

  module.run()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/Module.py", line 44, in run

  self.render()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/File.py", line 329, in render

  self.length = svn.fs.file_length(root, self.path, self.pool)

  SubversionException: ('Attempted to get length of a *non*-file node', 160017)</code>
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  Andreas March 20, 2005 at 9:17 am

  What theme are you using? Downloaded or self-made? I like the full-width style of it, and I'm looking for something similar to work with for my own site. Nice plugin, btw!
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  Jax March 20, 2005 at 10:22 pm

  Hi, The Link Library plugin is a feature that I have been looking forward for a long time. I installed it, but I am unable to get the notes function to display. In fact, I even enabled $show_notes parameter as true. Can you tell me how I could get it working?
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  Tim March 22, 2005 at 6:18 pm

  Can you tell me how this works? I've uploaded the plugin to my plugin directory and activated it but I don't know how to add a function call. I'm php challenged!

  Thanks
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