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New version of link library plugin

Yannick Lefebvre    Wordpress    

At the request of a user, I have added three new pieces of functionality to my WordPress plugin called link-library. These are:

• Ability to only display links belonging to selected categories
• Ability to display notes in addition to descriptions as opposed to instead of them
• Ability to display link name at the same time as link images

Version 0.2 is now available to download from the WordPress Plugin Repository or can be downloaded directly here.

To help people get started with this plugin, I have added an extra file to download called links.zip. Simply unzip its contents to the directory of your WordPress theme. Once in place, you can create a new Page in the WordPress admin Manage section that uses the Links page template. Once you have your new page, you can just link to it from other parts of your blog or perhaps from the sidebar.

UPDATE: I have just updated the link-library plugin to work with WordPress 2.1. I also had to add a few parameters to the function to show all the links since they removed these parameters from the WordPress admin interface. I have only done basic testing on the plugin at this time and will test more when I upgrade my blog to version 2.1. For those who want to try using it right away, you can download the newest version of the plugin here. I also updated the usage example to show these new parameters.

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15 Comments to “New version of link library plugin”

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  Yannick Lefebvre December 22, 2006 at 1:59 pm

  Is validation a new thing in WordPress 2.1? I have not been able to keep up with the tool development with my new job.
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  sairuh January 18, 2007 at 4:35 pm

  This plugin doesn’t work with WordPress 2.1. That is, testing with WP 2.1rc1. I glanced at the code and it looks like it refers to the linkcategories table, which have been subsumed into categories, according to this article.

  Any chance this plugin will be updated to work with WP 2.1? It’s so useful!
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  Yannick Lefebvre January 18, 2007 at 10:04 pm

  I will try to install a test copy of 2.1RC1 this week-end and look into this. Sorry for not looking into this earlier. I have been extremely busy between home and work.
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  Yannick Lefebvre January 23, 2007 at 9:18 pm

  Sorry, I was not able to get to re-work this plugin over the week-end. I just downloaded the final version and will look at getting it updated tomorrow night.
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