GetSimple Support Forum - display links as thumbs in sidebar in an easy way

Hello,

I was wondering if there's an easy way to put links as images (thumbs) in the sidebar?

This is my site: http://gs.wouterb.be/

At the moment I'm using a component:

Code:
<p>Photo albums:</p>

<a href="http://gs.wouterb.be/post/woesteland-bouwkamp-olst-4-2013"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/gZ2o2eIs.jpg" alt="" title="WoesteLand bouwkamp Olst 4-2013" /></a>

<a href="http://gs.wouterb.be/post/woeste-spellen-weekend"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/oQurTBLs.jpg" alt="" title="Woeste Spellen Weekend" /></a>

<a href="http://gs.wouterb.be/post/woestknot13"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/HagReGOs.jpg"  alt="" title="Woesteland Knotkamp 2013"/></a>

<a href="http://gs.wouterb.be/post/zondeval"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/R64gHYvs.jpg"  alt="" title="De Woeste Zondeval"/></a>

<br /><br /><br /> Tags: <?php nm_list_tags(); ?> <br /> <br />

Click <a href="http://wouterb.be/wbpress/"><u>here</u></a> to see my older photo's

Every time when I want to add a new gallery post/page I have to add a line of code in that component to get a thumb-link.

I thought maybe there's a shorter + easier way.

I was thinking myself about the Link manager 2 plugin. Problem is, it also adds the title of the link in text and I don't want that.

Is that an earthship?

How are you doing your galleries ?
Surely you can come up with some thing to auto link your galleries. How do you pick the thumbnail?

(2013-06-14, 10:59:37)shawn_a Wrote: [ -> ]Is that an earthship?

How are you doing your galleries ?
Surely you can come up with some thing to auto link your galleries. How do you pick the thumbnail?

Indeed there is an Earthship project in Olst (Netherlands):

http://www.aardehuis.nl/en/

The galleries are from Imgur (allthough I think of going to use 23hq.com in the future), the thumbs are also from Imgur. I don't like the gallery plugin options in GetSimple. Imgur and 23hq.com can generate links to these galleries, but I want a link to a page on my site with a gallery embed in.

hmm, with it being an external gallery it seems like it would be a bit difficult, you would have to have a script fetch the galleries and fetch a preffered thumb and auto link to them.

(2013-06-14, 10:35:59)datiswous Wrote: [ -> ]I was thinking myself about the Link manager 2 plugin. Problem is, it also adds the title of the link in text and I don't want that.

Ok I figured out how to remove the link display in Link manager 2 output.

I removed the following code from the link template file (links_html.php):

Code:
<?php echo $link->name; ?>

This means that I can't use the plugin for other purposes though (links with text). Should be possible to alter it somehow that it would not show images if category "thumb" (example) is used.

Maybe you can add something to it so you can target it with css and jsut change what you want. Or maybe i do not understand the problem.

Stick the text in a span or something so you can hide it.

(2013-06-15, 01:34:19)shawn_a Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe you can add something to it so you can target it with css and jsut change what you want. Or maybe i do not understand the problem.

Stick the text in a span or something so you can hide it.

The text is generated by the plugin. I don't know how I would do that.