Blogroll Links
For people who maintain their Web site or blog using the WordPress blog content management system,
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.
Features of this plugin
- It can show the links by category in blog posts and WordPress Pages.
- It uses WordPress’ standard built-in Blogroll links database. There is no hassle of another list of links to maintain.
- 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.
- It honors the Show/Hidden setting as defined for each link in WordPress.
- It displays the link in the same window or new window, as specified for each link in WordPress.
To learn more about this plugin, please read my blog post about it titled
Social Graphs API: WordPress Plugin: Blogroll Links
Examples
See this plugin in action at the following Posts and Pages powered by WordPress:
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:
<h3>My Pages on Social Networking Sites</h3>
Syntax:
[blogroll-links categoryslug="rajiv-web" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
Old syntax for legacy support:
<h3>Web Sites of Some People I Know</h3>
Syntax:
[blogroll-links categoryslug="people" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
This list of charitable organizations with brief descriptions is generated by the plugin. Code:
Syntax:
[blogroll-links categoryslug="charity"]
www.rajiv.com/blog/2004/08/02/search-engines/
This list of search engines is maintained as Blogroll links in WordPress. Code:
Syntax:
[blogroll-links categoryslug="search-engines"]
The featured links shown under the “What’s featured here?” section shows the links I’ve categorized as featured in WordPress’ Blogroll links. Code:
<a title="featured" name="featured"></a>
<h2>What's featured here?</h2>
Syntax:
[blogroll-links categoryslug="featured" sortby="link_name" sortorder="desc"]
Thanks to Dave Grega, Adam E. Falk (xenograg) for their contributions to this code.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.