New version of Link Library adds new capacities

Yesterday saw the release of Link Library 2.5. This new version sports a brand new design of its administration panel along with two new pieces of functionality: A link search and the ability to show links on multiple pages with navigation links.

Since I had to re-work a lot of the back-end to add these new features, let me know if anything does not work correctly with the new version when you upgrade.

4 Comments to “New version of Link Library adds new capacities”

Stefano September 22, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hi Yannick! Thanks for your plugin, and the effort you put on it! I really like the new admin interface, and the multiple-pages feature is what I was looking for!

there are two points that IMO should be improved:
in the admin page, the list of categories to show is hard to fill if they are numerous (I have to check manually each category number) and may be problematic to update if new categories are added in a second time! It whould be nice if a catch-them-all shortcut like a “” keyword may be inserted instead.

Secondly, I noticed that in this version you add a reference to a jquery plugin (qtip) not hosted in link-library directory, but in a “weekly-schedule” one. Is this a new requirement for Link Library? I don’t have a weekly-schedule plugin installed so it acts like a missing reference.

The script code seems generated in function link_library_init(), in link_library.php, line 2105

thank you again and all the best
Yannick Lefebvre September 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Good catch on the jquery plugin. That’s a cut and paste error from the source code of one of my other plugins. I will include this in the update I was going to work on tonight.

I will think about what could be done for the list of categories. Now, I am not sure how a catch-them-all like a * would help for that since you can just leave the field empty to show all categories.

Yannick
Yannick Lefebvre September 22, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I just uploaded Version 2.5.2 to the WordPress server and it should be available soon to address the two issues that you listed below.
Stefano September 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm
thank you Yannick!

I used to leave the category list empty, just because I wanted all my categories to be shown. But with 2.5 update no more links were found. So I had to put all the categories by hand, and this was the reason for my previous request.

now it works perfectly, even if the categories list is empty. Maybe it was just me or a strange cache-related problem (not related to your plugin, however)

thanks again for the help and the prompt update!

Stefano