With the release of Wordpress 2.3, I had to make a few small modifications to my plugin. The main one being that they have removed support for link sub-categories. The latest version can be found on the wp-plugins.org site.

Yes, I am back from another long phase of no posting. Sorry about that. The end of 2006 was extremely busy with all of my travels in my new position as field application engineer.

The back end of my blog has just been updated to the new version of Wordpress (2.1).

For those who are using my link-library plugin for Wordpress, you’ll be happy to know that I have just updated it to work with Wordpress 2.1. I also added a few parameters to the function to show all the links since they removed these parameters from the Wordpress admin interface. I have done some testing on this newly updated site and also got a lot of very helpful feedback from Sarah Liberman (thanks a bunch!).

You can download the newest version of the plugin here. I also updated the usage example to show these new parameters. Let me know if you find any issues.

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.

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.