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About
This is a lightweight plugin to display a set of links from the Link Manager.
The Link Manager is part of WordPress but disabled by default. This plugin will activate it again.
Add shortcode [links] on a page to display your blogroll.
You can personalize your blogroll by adding attributes to the shortcode.
This plugin can also be used to create a link portal.
How to use
After activation you will notice a new menu item called “Links”. Add categories and links here. Links must be assigned to a category.
Create a page and add shortcode [links] to display your blogroll.
Default settings categories:
- 4 columns
- Order by name
- Ascending order (A-Z)
- Empty categories are hidden
Default settings links:
- Order by name
- Ascending order (A-Z)
- All links are displayed
Shortcode attributes
You can add attributes to the shortcode mentioned above.
- Add custom CSS class to blogroll:
class="your-class-here" - Change number of columns:
columns="3" - Include certain categories:
include="1,3,5" - Exclude certain categories:
exclude="8,10,12" - Display empty categories too:
hide_empty="0" - Display category description:
category_description="true" - Change number of links per category:
limit="5" - Display links in descending order:
order="DESC" - Display links by ID:
orderby="ID" - Display links in random order:
orderby="rand" - Hide link title:
hide_title="true" - Hide link description:
hide_description="true"
About the columns attribute: you can choose between 1-4 columns. In mobile screens 2 columns (except the 1 column blogroll).
You can disable the columns with columns="0". This can be useful for your own styling.
About the hide link title attribute: only has effect when link has an image assigned to it.
Examples:
- One attribute:
[links include="1,3,5"] - Multiple attributes:
[links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" limit="5"]
Widget
This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it.
Question?
Please take a look at the FAQ section.
Translation
Not included but plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More translations are very welcome!
The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant but kept for reference.
Credits
Without the WordPress codex and help from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so: thank you!
Enjoy!
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Link Manager (GeneratePress theme) 
Link Manager (dashboard) 
Links page (dashboard)
FAQ
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Where is the settings page?
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Plugin has no settings page, use the shortcode with attributes to make it work.
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How can I change the layout or colors?
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You can use an attribute to change the number of columns or to disable the columns. But you should use custom CSS for making other changes.
If you disable the columns CSS class “vslm-custom” is added to the blogroll. This can be useful for your own styling.
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Can I order links by date?
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No, this is not possible.
But with the orderby and order attribute you can order links by ID and in descending order. That way new links will be displayed first.
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Where to find the category ID?
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Every category URL contains an unique ID. You will find this ID when hovering the category title in your dashboard or when editing the category.
It’s the number that comes after:
tag_ID= -
Where to find the link ID?
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Every link URL contains an unique ID. You will find this ID when hovering the link title in your dashboard or when editing the link.
It’s the number that comes after:
link_ID= -
Does this plugin have its own block?
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No, plugin doesn’t have its own block in the editor and there are no plans to add this anytime soon.
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No Semantic versioning?
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Version number doesn’t give you info about the type of update (major, minor, patch). You should check changelog for that.
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How can I make a donation?
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You like my plugin and you’re willing to make a donation? Thanks, I really appreciate that! There’s a PayPal donate link at my website.
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Other question or comment?
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Please open a topic in plugin forum.
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བྱས་རྗེས་འཇོག་མཁན། & གསར་འབྱེད་པ།
“VS Link Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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“VS Link Manager” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་ནང་ལ་ “VS Link Manager” ཡིག་སྒྱུར་བྱོས།
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
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Version 2.0
- Bumped the “requires PHP” version to 7.0
- Bumped the “requires at least” version to 5.0
Version 1.9
- Minor changes in code
Version 1.8
- Minor changes in code
Version 1.7
- Minor changes in code
Version 1.6
- Removed function load_plugin_textdomain() because redundant
- Plugin uses the WP language packs for its translation
- Kept translation folder for reference
- Because of this change plugin now requires at least WP 4.6
Version 1.5
- Plugin has a new name
- But plugin itself and ownership did not change
Version 1.4
- Textual changes
Version 1.3
- Fix: custom CSS class
Version 1.2
- New: attribute for adding custom CSS class to the blogroll
- Better validating, sanitizing and escaping
Version 1.1
- New: extra order and orderby attributes for links
Version 1.0
- First stable release