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With this lightweight plugin you can 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] to a page to display your blogroll.
You can customize your blogroll by adding attributes to the shortcode.
This plugin can also be used to create a link portal.
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:
Default settings links:
You can customize your blogroll by adding attributes to the shortcode.
class="your-class-here"
columns="3"
include="1,3,5"
exclude="8,10,12"
hide_empty="0"
category_description="true"
limit="5"
order="DESC"
orderby="ID"
orderby="rand"
hide_title="true"
hide_description="true"
no_link_categories_text="your text here"
Example: [links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" limit="5"]
With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4. In mobile screens 2 columns (except the 1 column blogroll).
You can disable the columns with columns="0"
. This can be handy if you only want to use your own styling.
The hide link title attribute only has effect when the link has an image assigned to it.
This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it.
Please take a look at the FAQ section.
Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More translations are very welcome!
The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.
Without the WordPress codex and help from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so: thank you!
Enjoy!