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.
I'm a tech enthusiast working in the modeling and simulation software industry. I'm also married and the father of two very energetic little girls.
…recently moved my blog to a new site, and copied and now have re-installed link library, carefully copying all of the settings that worked just fine at the old, nearly identical site, but new links fail to appear when submitted via the form. They get added to the site, but without any category name. I've tried setting various categories as the default category or the display category, and the same thing continue to occur. I'm still trying to investigate possible conflicts, but maybe you could point me in the right direction…
After doing some search, I found out that many are having this error with many other plugins.
The error is:
"The plugin does not have a valid header"
Tried some of the fixes suggested, none really worked. Some said that you should edit the readme file of the plugin to increase the "up to" version to something more than the current WP version. but nothing happened.
Thanks so much for creating for fantastic link plugin!
I'd like to make my links displayed as your "Freeware DB only showing one category at a time" style, but I cannot see my links in the table as seen on your example. I noticed that your config screenshot for set #4 is outdated (i.e. no Display link counts for Link Categories Settings. Can you update the screenshot? Thanks again.
I have updated the screenshots. For the Freeware DB one that you are referring to, the link is: http://yannickcorner.nayanna.biz/images/LLSetting…
Yannick,
i installed the plugin, but instead of waiting for moderation, appears right away on the link page.
Please advise
Regards
L.T.
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Can you check that the checkbox for "Show user links immediately" is not checked in the plugin's admin panel?
Just thought I'd add that I suspect the problem I mentioned, but seems not to have attracted much interest – the submit form ceasing to function at a new site – may have something to do with the way that URLs are taken up at certain hosts. Another link-related plug-in that I use, Link This Bookmarklet, also remained dysfunctional until I discovered a Javascript hack that removed "http:" from new links. It's far above my level of expertise to understand why this happens at, e.g., hostgator, but not at other hosts.
With the upgrade to 3.2 the plugin does not work anymore with the following error
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /srv/www/vhosts/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/link-library/link-library.php on line 777
Interesting. I used a different type of else statement on that line. I guess that some servers can't handle this syntax for else. Please try to upgrade to 3.2.1, which should resolve the issue.
Did the upgrade now to 3.2.1
Now I have a new message
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /srv/www/vhosts/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/link-library/link-library.php on line 777
Sorry for the trouble. I will ask a friend of mine if he knows why this error might happen on some servers. Do you know which version of PHP is running on your web host? Do you have access to change the PHP configuration? I will try to resolve this in the plugin but cannot reproduce this on my end.
I am running php5-5.3.1 and I have full access to the server. I have not changed anything before the update. Everyhing was working perfectly with 3.1.7. Un fortunately I can not find version 3.1.7 anywhere on the net anymore. If you can provide a link for version 3.1.7 that would at least make my website as it was before the update.
Thanks
You can get version 3.1.7 here:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/link-li…
Go to the bottom of the page to download the file. That should be the only file you need to get.
Thanks now works again without any errors
I sent you a test version of the plugin to your yahoo e-mail. I changed a few things and cannot test since I don't get any of the errors that you are getting.
Also, if it still does not work, could you send me your web server's php.ini file?
Is anyone else getting this error with the new version?