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Links Page Crisis

May 10th, 2006 · 8 Comments · 124 views

I want a links page. I have tons of links I want to preach about.

I hate the standard template for Wordpress.

And the Links Page I used to use doesn’t work in 2.0 even though everyone is telling me that it does.

AGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Any ideas?

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8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 rob // May 10, 2006 at 3:11 pm

    I cheat and use Bloglines to do it for me. I just send people there.

    Both Bloglines and Blogrolling.com has java you can add to your sidebar to display links. You maintain it on thier sites.

    That is if you’re into all that.

  • 2 Paul // May 10, 2006 at 3:52 pm

    I’ll see if I can get the theme and code it out for you.

  • 3 Jerry // May 11, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Try grabbing the Links section from the Connection theme’s sidebar and putting it into this theme’s sidebar.

  • 4 Grant // May 11, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Okay, jerry…I’m pretty savvy with WP but I couldn’t find a links page with connection.

    I have one that I used with minima plus but I don’t like the layout.

    Paul - I’ll love you forever and promise to quit making fun of Catbird for one week if you write me a cool code!

  • 5 Paul - SteelerDirtFreak // May 12, 2006 at 1:07 pm

    What I do on all of my sites is to just make a new links page template…I copy the single page template, rename it, and then in the area where a post or content would normally go, I just put in

    (without the extra spaces, of course)

    Make sure you use this at the top of your template:

    And then, if you want to manually control the order in which your links display, you can grab the My Link Order plugin - http://www.geekyweekly.com/mylinkorder

    Just my 2cents on how I make link pages for most of my sites.

  • 6 Paul - SteelerDirtFreak // May 12, 2006 at 1:10 pm

    OK, that didn’t work exactly right…

    here is what I put where content would be, minus the php brackets:
    php get_links_list();

    And at the top of the page:
    /*
    Template Name: Links Page
    */
    ?>

  • 7 Grant // May 12, 2006 at 1:28 pm

    welcome to my world, Paul!! hahahahah….

    I’ll keep trying…

  • 8 Paul - SteelerDirtFreak // May 12, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    I just put up the Fast Track theme and made a links page template for it. You can see the result at http://www.steelerdirtfreak.com/links/

    If that looks like anything you want, let me know and I’ll email that page template to you.

    If you could, let me know when you have checked it out, as I’ll probably switch back to my other theme.

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