rajivpant

xenograg

<p>For people who maintain their Web site or blog using the WordPress blog content management system,<br />
blogroll-links is an open source WordPress plugin that uses WordPress’ built-in Blogroll feature and presents links to friends’ home pages and own pages on social networking sites using XFN in the links.</p>
<p>Features of this plugin</p>
<ul>
<li>It can show the links by category in blog posts and WordPress Pages.</li>
<li>It uses WordPress’ standard built-in Blogroll links database. There is no hassle of another list of links to maintain.</li>
<li>It can be used to show only the links assigned to a particular category, by stating the category slug as defined in that category’s setting in WordPress.</li>
<li>It honors the Show/Hidden setting as defined for each link in WordPress.</li>
<li>It displays the link in the same window or new window, as specified for each link in WordPress.</li>
</ul>
<p>To learn more about this plugin, please read my blog post about it titled<br />
<a href="http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2008/02/10/blogroll-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Graphs API: WordPress Plugin: Blogroll Links</a></p>
<p><strong>Examples</strong></p>
<p>See this plugin in action at the following Posts and Pages powered by WordPress:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rajiv.com/friends/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/friends/</a></p>
<p>The two lists, first one of links to my own pages on various social networking sites and the second one of links to some of my friends’ pages are generated by this plugin. Yes, those social networks’ logo pictures are also taken by the plugin from the WordPress standard Blogroll links. Code:</p>
<pre><code><h3>My Pages on Social Networking Sites</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="rajiv-web" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
<p>Old syntax for legacy support:<br />
    </p>
<pre><code><h3>Web Sites of Some People I Know</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="people" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
<p><a href="http://www.rajiv.com/charity/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/charity/</a></p>
<p>This list of charitable organizations with brief descriptions is generated by the plugin. Code:</p>
<p>Syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="charity"]
</code></pre>
<p><a href="http://www.rajiv.com/blog/2004/08/02/search-engines/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/blog/2004/08/02/search-engines/</a></p>
<p>This list of search engines is maintained as Blogroll links in WordPress. Code:</p>
<p>Syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="search-engines"]
</code></pre>
<p><a href="http://www.rajiv.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.rajiv.com/</a></p>
<p>The featured links shown under the “What’s featured here?” section shows the links I’ve categorized as featured in WordPress’ Blogroll links. Code:</p>
<pre><code><a title="featured" name="featured"></a>

<h2>What's featured here?</h2>
</code></pre>
<p>Syntax:</p>
<pre><code>[blogroll-links categoryslug="featured" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
</code></pre>
<p>Thanks to Dave Grega, Adam E. Falk (xenograg) for their contributions to this code.</p>

Guido

<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can display a set of links from the Link Manager.</p>
<p>The Link Manager is part of WordPress but disabled by default. This plugin will activate it again.</p>
<p>To display your link list you can use a block, a shortcode or a widget.</p>
<p>You can customize your link list with attributes.</p>
<p>With this plugin you can also create a blogroll or link portal in the same way as a link list.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to menu item “Links”. You can add your categories and links here. Links must be assigned to a category.</p>
<p>Add the VS Link Manager block or the shortcode <code>[links]</code> to a page to display your link list.</p>
<p>Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Link Manager widget.</p>
<p>Default settings categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>4 columns when using block or shortode</li>
<li>1 column when using widget</li>
<li>Order by name</li>
<li>Ascending order (A-Z)</li>
<li>Empty categories are hidden</li>
</ul>
<p>Default settings links:</p>
<ul>
<li>Order by name</li>
<li>Ascending order (A-Z)</li>
<li>All links are displayed</li>
</ul>
<p>You can customize your link list with attributes.</p>
<h4>Attributes</h4>
<p>You can customize your link list by adding attributes to the block, the shortcode or the widget.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add custom CSS class to link list: <code>class="your-class-name"</code></li>
<li>Change the number of columns: <code>columns="3"</code></li>
<li>Disable the columns: <code>columns="0"</code></li>
<li>Include certain categories: <code>include="1,3,5"</code></li>
<li>Exclude certain categories: <code>exclude="8,10,12"</code></li>
<li>Display empty categories too: <code>hide_empty="0"</code></li>
<li>Display category description: <code>category_description="true"</code></li>
<li>Change the number of links per category: <code>links_per_category="5"</code></li>
<li>Reverse the order of links: <code>order="DESC"</code></li>
<li>Display links by ID: <code>orderby="ID"</code></li>
<li>Display links in random order: <code>orderby="rand"</code></li>
<li>Hide link title: <code>hide_link_title="true"</code></li>
<li>Hide link description: <code>hide_link_description="true"</code></li>
<li>Change feed label: <code>feed_label="your label"</code></li>
<li>Change the “no categories are found” text: <code>no_categories_text="your text"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example: <code>[links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"]</code></p>
<p>When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.</p>
<p>Example: <code>include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"</code></p>
<p>With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4.</p>
<p>The link list becomes 2 columns in small screens (except when number of columns is set to 1).</p>
<p>You can also disable the columns. This can be handy if you only want to use your own styling.</p>
<p>The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings.</p>
<p>With the hide link title attribute you can hide the link title if the link has an image assigned to it. This way you can display the link image only, instead of both.</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it.</p>
<p>You can use the VS Link Manager widget instead.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-link-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Link Manager

With this lightweight plugin you can display a set of links from the Link Manager.

Blogroll Links vs VS Link Manager