GetSimple Support Forum › GetSimple › Plugins v
Link Manager

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
Link Manager
roog Offline
Member
***
Posts: 93
Threads: 7
Joined: Oct 2010
#1
2011-06-02, 23:52:37 (This post was last modified: 2011-06-21, 19:03:48 by ljgww.)
This topic is about the GetSimple Link Manager plugin, an easy to use plugin allowing you to manage a list of links (or blogroll if you want) on your website. Comments, bugs and feature requests can be posted here.

Installation

Download the latest version here, unzip the downloaded file and copy its contents to your plugins folder. To show links on your website, you have 2 options. You can add a placeholder to a page of your choice:

Code:
(% links %)

or, you can insert the following code into your theme template:

Code:
<?php lm_list_links(); ?>

For example, if you use the vanilla GS Innovation theme, you could add:

Code:
<div class="section">
  <h2>Links</h2>
  <?php lm_list_links(); ?>
</div>

somewhere between the <aside></aside> tags in the file sidebar.php to show the links in the sidebar section of your site.

Usage

Once you've followed the directions described above, You can access the plugin via the Link Manager submenu under the Plugins tab. Click on the Add Link button to start adding new links, change the order of the links by drag & drop.
Find
Reply
andyash Offline
Member
***
Posts: 184
Threads: 20
Joined: Apr 2010
#2
2011-06-16, 18:29:52
Is there any way we can have custom order in the links instead of the current alphabetical one?
Find
Reply
roog Offline
Member
***
Posts: 93
Threads: 7
Joined: Oct 2010
#3
2011-06-16, 22:43:53
Yes, that shouldn't be difficult. I'll see what I can do.
Find
Reply
andyash Offline
Member
***
Posts: 184
Threads: 20
Joined: Apr 2010
#4
2011-06-17, 13:30:17
roog Wrote:Yes, that shouldn't be difficult. I'll see what I can do.
Great. Sorry for rushing you, but how soon can this be as I need it for a site in 2 days? This can be really powerful as the user can create extra navigation for some GetSimple pages while keeping them hidden from GetSimple main menu.
Find
Reply
roog Offline
Member
***
Posts: 93
Threads: 7
Joined: Oct 2010
#5
2011-06-19, 22:47:47
@andyash: It's done!
Find
Reply
andyash Offline
Member
***
Posts: 184
Threads: 20
Joined: Apr 2010
#6
2011-06-21, 18:22:25
roog Wrote:@andyash: It's done!
This works great. Thanks.

Another request. Can we have it accept internal URLs so we don't have to type absolute links if we use it to access pages we haven't linked to the main menu?
Find
Reply
roog Offline
Member
***
Posts: 93
Threads: 7
Joined: Oct 2010
#7
2011-06-21, 18:56:56
For now I'll stick to absolute URLs. Maybe I'll add the option to select local pages later.
Find
Reply
andyash Offline
Member
***
Posts: 184
Threads: 20
Joined: Apr 2010
#8
2011-06-24, 16:00:23
roog Wrote:For now I'll stick to absolute URLs. Maybe I'll add the option to select local pages later.
Willing to wait. Thanks.
Find
Reply
Luniel Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 2
Threads: 0
Joined: Jul 2011
#9
2011-07-20, 03:19:03 (This post was last modified: 2011-07-20, 03:58:01 by jebaakterhome.)
Hello, I'm french, so excuse my english.

You've done a great job with your plugin.
I've testing around and notice a little problem on the screen to modify link.
Instead of display DELETE it display {news_manager/DELETE}
The problem come from the file: \link_manager\template\edit_link.php
at the line 37 <?php i18n('news_manager/DELETE'); ?>
it should be <?php i18n('link_manager/DELETE'); ?>

In addition, I've done a french translation file for this plugin.
If it can help somebody, see the attachement.

Have a nice day.
Find
Reply
roog Offline
Member
***
Posts: 93
Threads: 7
Joined: Oct 2010
#10
2011-07-21, 18:36:41
Thanks Luniel for pointing that out. I've fixed the error and included your language file as well.
Find
Reply
Luniel Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 2
Threads: 0
Joined: Jul 2011
#11
2011-07-22, 06:03:07
Always pleased to help
Find
Reply
phpsns Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 25
Threads: 9
Joined: Jul 2010
#12
2011-08-04, 01:23:56
It is possible to define different category for the links, so I can put it on different areas of the page? For example, I need to add links to:

Footer
Main Menu (for extra menu links not related to GS pages)
Sidebar

Currently, I am using Component blocks to pull this off, thanks!
Find
Reply
grassfrog Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 43
Threads: 8
Joined: Feb 2012
#13
2012-03-28, 18:30:41
Wonderful plugin - thank you for sharing it!

Categories would be a great idea if you feel inclined to add them.

I did have to make a minor adjustment to the functions.php file so that it would open the links in a blank window - pretty much standard for all link exchanges. Other than that, it works like a charm!! Thanks!
Find
Reply
grassfrog Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 43
Threads: 8
Joined: Feb 2012
#14
2012-04-23, 09:11:40
Great plugin! I'm wondering if it would be possible to install multiple versions of this plugin on a single website in order to have links by category, and if so, what would it take? I tried putting a 2nd copy of link_manager.php into plugins, renaming it link_manager2, etc., but this breaks the site, I'm sure because there is a conflict with the original plugin.

Which files and what variables need to be edited in order to run two or more instances of this link manager on a site?
Find
Reply
derwu Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 3
Threads: 0
Joined: Oct 2012
#15
2012-10-21, 22:22:21
Thanks for develop this plugin.

In my own instance of Get Simple I decided to move this plugin from "Plugin" to "Sites" tab.

I disable access to "Pluging" tab for editors (clients), so actual location of this plugin is bad for my uses.

I think you should think about change of default location of this plugin.
Find
Reply
datiswous Offline
member
*****
Posts: 1,247
Threads: 82
Joined: Feb 2011
#16
2012-10-22, 09:15:54
derwu Wrote:Thanks for develop this plugin.

In my own instance of Get Simple I decided to move this plugin from "Plugin" to "Sites" tab.

I disable access to "Pluging" tab for editors (clients), so actual location of this plugin is bad for my uses.

I think you should think about change of default location of this plugin.

Maybe you can tell how you did it, for possible future users. I don't think roog is still maintaining this plugin.
Find
Reply
mrdragonraaar Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 26
Threads: 2
Joined: Oct 2012
#17
2012-10-28, 04:20:33
I have written an update to this plugin which you can see here.

I wanted some extra features such as categories, link target, description, icon etc and was unsure if this plugin was being maintained.

It is a complete re-write but I have grabbed some code snippets from this plugin so apologies to roog for that.
Find
Reply
mrdragonraaar Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 26
Threads: 2
Joined: Oct 2012
#18
2012-10-28, 04:27:07
datiswous Wrote:
derwu Wrote:Thanks for develop this plugin.

In my own instance of Get Simple I decided to move this plugin from "Plugin" to "Sites" tab.

I disable access to "Pluging" tab for editors (clients), so actual location of this plugin is bad for my uses.

I think you should think about change of default location of this plugin.

Maybe you can tell how you did it, for possible future users. I don't think roog is still maintaining this plugin.

This "Sites" tab does not exist on a standard install of GS so did you just create a new tab for this??
Find
Reply
ricrdo Offline
Junior Member
**
Posts: 10
Threads: 2
Joined: Nov 2012
#19
2012-11-02, 21:30:24
Very nice, simple plugin. I'm doing all the navigation by dat plugin!
Find
Reply




Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)