On the new site that I’ve set up for the local WordPress community ( www.wp-pompey.org.uk ) I want to create a page of links to other sites where the information comes from the standard WordPress links. There is a widget that you can use to put your links into a sidebar, but what is there for putting it into the page content? Bobbing Wide investigate…
What we want to achieve is a list of links – formatted in a grid or one per row, with a clickable image and web site name followed by a short description of the site. Giving the reader information to decide whether or not to visit. Note: We’re not really looking for plugins which provide the solution in a widget… but that may be acceptable… we’ll just have to use a sidebar called ‘content’.
Here’s the shortlist – chosen from 111 items.
| Plugin name and description | Plugin links: WP,homepage,bw notes | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
|---|---|---|
| WP Render Blogroll Links Create a links page with a simple shortcode / tag. No additional templates needed. | wp-render-blogroll-links home ... | 2.1.8 54546 2011-01-15 3.0.5 |
| Blogroll Links Blogroll Links displays a list of URL links and related info in a Post or Page on your Wordpress Blog. It is often used for tagged, social links. | blogroll-links home ... | 2.2 13732 2010-02-22 2.9.2 |
| Spicy Blogroll Spices up your regular Blogroll by showing an Ajax popup with post excerpts for each link in your Blogroll. Fully customizable via settings page. | spicy-blogroll home ... | 1.0.0 2237 2011-01-19 3.0.5 |
| Extended Blogroll Displays your blogroll links via RSS Feeds in a customizable sidebar widget and provides also a shortcode for displaying in pages and articles. | extended-blogroll home ... | 1.2 3425 2012-02-27 3.4-alpha-19978 |
| SBS Blogroll Dynamic blogroll based on RSS/Atom feeds. | sbs-blogroll home ... | 0.3 1660 2009-12-27 2.8.4 |
Well, I was going to try wp-render-blogroll-links, but now I think it’ll be extended-blogroll. More info soon.
I tried extended-blogroll and it wasn’t at all what I expected. back to my first choice then.
So then I tried wp-render-blogroll-links only to discover a conflict between my WordPress shortcode and [ wp-blogroll]. fob!