Links Manager (was Link Manager 2)

[mrdragonraaar]

Hey, no problem, glad you're back. Saw there's a v.1.8. What are the changes?

Thanks. I don't do a lot of coding these days so I only tend to if I have some spare time.
v1.8 included an update that allowed a simple keyword search of the links.
Details are in the post just above yours.

Tested it. Kind of gives the same output as the custom menu plugin from Angryboy (I mentioned it before), but it has a different (I think simplified, but less organised) approach. Less organised in the way that it kind of is made for only one list, but with categories you can make multiple lists, but it still is shown as one list in admin.

I had a look at Angryboy's plugin. It's nice. As you say it provides different functions although can have similar look on the page.
I started this as an update to an existing plugin after using wordpress for years which had a link manager built it.

I thought the following would be good additions:

• ability to also set links to internal pages.
  
• ability to not set url.
  
• have a larger description box.
  
• show category id with category name in Manage Links page.
  

At the moment setting the url is a requirement, but it seems that link manager can also be used to make simple lists of text with image. See a test of mine (not properly styled): test (the image is the link, but should't have to)

I never gave that a thought

I updated with 3 of your suggestions.

v1.9
* url is now not required. If left blank no <a> tags are used but instead a <span> tag is used to seperate the link data from the description. The sample css is updated to give same display as before.
* changed description box to textarea. If newlines are entered for description then they are converted to <br> tags if description is displayed.
* category id is now displayed in manage links page.

There were also a couple of fixes. The front-end css was overiding the back-end css.

Your other suggestion with drop down for internal pages will take a bit more time.

Let me know if you find any errors.