Link Library
NOTICE: I will be working on a very involved project from mid-September 2011 to June 2012 and will not as much time available to support questions/feature requests on my plugins as I would normally have. Therefore, I recommend that you read through all comments here, through the forum on the wordpress.org and through the FAQ before asking questions. I will try to answer a few questions on occasions but I cannot guarantee at what frequency this will be. I will share more about this project as it progresses.
Thank you for your understanding.
This plugin is used to be able to create a page on your web site that will contain a list of all of the link categories that you have defined inside of the Links section of the WordPress administration, along with all links defined in these categories. The Admin Panel for Link Library allows you to define up to 5 different sets of settings to have pages with lists of links looking quite different from each other. Please feel free to leave comments, ask questions or report issues on either of these plugins.
Donations
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Example Configurations
The Freeware DB and Favorite Links section of this site uses Link Library to generate the contents of the page. To help you get similar results, here are snapshots of my configuration for the examples that are available on the site:
- Freeware DB (Config)
- Favorite Links (Config)
- Favorite Links with RSS Feed Icons and Pagination (Config)
- Freeware DB only showing one category at a time (Config)
- Links with inline RSS Feed Items (Config)
Usage Examples
Click here for more usage examples of Link Library.
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I don't know if this will be of any use to anyone (aimed at newbies), but if you want to get your images aligned left or right when displayed with link info, you can edit your stylesheet to include:
.align-right { float:right; margin: 0 0 15px 15px; }
.align-left { float:left; margin: 0 15px 15px 0; }
Then go to your Link Library settings and under the section: "Link Sub-Field Configuration Table" click in the box for "Element Class" and type align-left or align-right and your images should then display nicely with your link info. Hope this is of use to someone
Great plugin
Why not add properties :
Export – Import :
( all Links – Settings – css … )
I hope to add to link library styles nice .
How can I run the "swf files" , because you have add "fancybox library" .
thanks
Thanks for posting images of how the settings for the plugin should be configured. I noticed that the top/bottom sets of images don't all match with the example sections they are listed beside (images 4 should be on the 5th line). Again, thanks for your work.
Thanks. I will try to update these images soon in any case since they were generated from an old version of Link Library. Stay Tuned.
Hi,
Instead of the standard bullet i want a image, how can i do that?
Thx for the great plugin
To get an image instead of a standard bullet, you need to render your link list as an unordered list and then use a stylesheet to hide the default bullets and show your image. Here is a site explaining this process:
http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/10/using-images-…
Hi Yannick, great plugin!
I think I found a bug though. When you try to put in in quotation marks (' and ") in the "Link Sub-field Configuration Table", the quotation marks get escaped with a eg, I wanted to put in in the Link Notes Before field, but it'd get escaped to , which gives html errors.
I will look into this issue and try to post an update for this quotation issue in the near future.
Hi Tak,
Since ' is a special character, you should enter the HTML code for that character in the field instead of the character itself. For a single quote, just type ' and you will see the quote, both in the admin panel and in the web page that you want to display.
You can see more information on HTML special characters here: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacte… including the single quote.
Let me know if this works for you.
Great Plugin and I am planning to donate for it!
I have two questions though:
1) How would I be able to show icons for links categories as in your DB example?
2) I tried upgrading to the latest version but it seems that after I try to edit the php file, an error is given that says something like "header is not appropriate" or something like that (different language). Were there any reported problems on the newest version?
Thanks!
1) To add icons to the link categories, you need to enter text as follows as the description of the categories:
[img src="/images/database-24x24.png" /]
Link Library will replace the [ ] characters for <>
As for your second question, I have not had any other reports of problems with the newest version yet and it has already been downloaded more than 300 times, including some users who were waiting for specific cases and confirmed that the new version worked for them.
What type of change are you making to the php files?
Thanks for clarifying how to add Icons to categories.
Regarding my second question. In the current (non updated) version, I added:
$output .= "CategoriesÙ„";
Above the:
$output .= "";
and its working fine but it looks like its causing a problem in the new version.
Any ideas
?
Could you provide a line number where you added that extra line to steer me a bit more in the right direction? I just did a text search for $output .= "" and I did not find it anywhere.
Sorry am not sure if I did that by mistake of it was taken out by the comment form.
Please look for:
$output .= "";
Around Line 1590
div id="linktable" class="linktable"
Thanks!