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<p>Blogroll Links is a WordPress plugin that displays your site’s link bookmarks (formerly called “blogroll”) within posts and pages using a simple shortcode.</p>
<p>For people who maintain their website or blog using the WordPress content management system, Blogroll Links uses WordPress’ built-in Links feature and presents links to friends’ pages, resources, and social networking profiles.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display links by category using the category slug</li>
<li>Customizable sorting (by name, URL, rating, or ID)</li>
<li>Honors link visibility settings (show/hidden)</li>
<li>Respects target window settings for each link</li>
<li>Displays link descriptions and images if available</li>
<li>Works with WordPress’ built-in Links Manager</li>
<li>Supports XFN (XHTML Friends Network) relationship tags</li>
<li>Full PHP 8+ compatibility</li>
<li>Secure: Protected against SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF attacks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Add this shortcode to any post or page:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="my-links"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Full Shortcode Options</h4>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="my-links" sortby="link_name" sortorder="asc"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>categoryslug</code> – The slug of the link category to display (required)</li>
<li><code>sortby</code> – Sort field: link_name, link_url, link_rating, link_id (default: link_name)</li>
<li><code>sortorder</code> – Sort direction: asc or desc (default: asc)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<p><strong>Display friends’ websites sorted by name:</strong><br />
    [blogroll-links categoryslug=”friends” sortby=”link_name” sortorder=”asc”]</p>
<p><strong>Display resources sorted by rating (highest first):</strong><br />
    [blogroll-links categoryslug=”resources” sortby=”link_rating” sortorder=”desc”]</p>
<p><strong>Display social media profiles:</strong><br />
    [blogroll-links categoryslug=”social-profiles”]</p>
<h4>Live Examples</h4>
<p>See this plugin in action:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.rajiv.com/friends/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/friends/</a> – Social networking links with XFN tags</li>
<li><a href="https://www.rajiv.com/charity/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/charity/</a> – Charitable organizations list</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Thanks to Dave Grega and Adam E. Falk (xenograg) for their contributions to this code.</p>
<p>Version 3.0 was modernized using <a href="https://rajiv.com/blog/2025/11/09/synthesis-engineering-with-claude-code-technical-implementation-and-workflows/" rel="nofollow ugc">Synthesis Coding</a> with Claude Code – a human-AI collaborative development approach.</p>


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<p>Built for the sole purpose of displaying WordPress Bookmark Links that show both text and any attached icons. Utilizing the ‘Links’ tab ( WordPress 2.7 + up ), it is possible to display them as either a list of text links or a list of icon links but not both at the same time.</p>
<p>Enter PictureBook, a small plugin that provides the necessary code to list your Bookmarks with both text and icons. An example use case might be in the footer of a website that contains social bookmarking links, each link could show the name of the social media website and a small icon next to it just by entering your information into the WordPress ‘Links’ tab. Achieving this goal is possible with a little core manipulation but we thought it would be more productive to simply install a plugin and not worry about the next WordPress update.</p>
<p>The plugin code itself is just a re-functioning the current ‘wp_list_bookmarks’. By altering the ‘link_image’ output to display the ‘link_name’, its possible to achieve the desired effect. The biggest benefit of this plugin is that a User is allowed to display their Bookmarks in three separate formats: text-only, image-only and a combination of both.</p>
<p>Please note that as of WordPress 3.5 the ‘Links’ manager has been deprecated and removed from the Dashboard. If you currently have links this option will still be available. If not, we recommend the ‘Link Manager’ plugin from WordPress which is required to run PictureBook. Download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-manager/</p>
<p>In the example (see the Installation tab), we are using the standard WordPress ‘wp_list_bookmarks’ formatting with a new function name ‘wp_list_picturebook’. All parameters associated with the original tag are functional. The code shown here will display a list of Bookmarks with both text and images, no headline, and only list those Bookmarks from ‘Category 4’. WordPress auto adds our line item tags and therefore they do not need to be included.</p>
<h4>Plugin URL</h4>
<p><a href="https://doc4design.com/picturebook/" rel="nofollow ugc">PictureBook</a></p>
<h4>Screenshots</h4>
<p><a href="https://doc4design.com/picturebook/" rel="nofollow ugc">View Screenshots</a></p>


PictureBook

Easily display WordPress Bookmark Links that show both text and any attached icons.

Blogroll Links vs PictureBook