With this lightweight plugin you can display a set of links from the Link Manager.
The Link Manager is part of WordPress but disabled by default. This plugin will activate it again.
To display your link list you can use a block or a shortcode.
You can customize your link list by adding attributes to the block or the shortcode.
With this plugin you can also create a blogroll or link portal in the same way as a link list.
After installation go to menu item “Links”. You can add your categories and links here. Links must be assigned to a category.
Add the VS Link Manager block or the shortcode [links]
to a page to display your link list.
Default settings categories:
Default settings links:
You can customize your link list by adding attributes to the block or the shortcode.
class="your-class-name"
columns="3"
columns="0"
include="1,3,5"
exclude="8,10,12"
hide_empty="0"
category_description="true"
links_per_category="5"
order="DESC"
orderby="ID"
orderby="rand"
hide_link_title="true"
hide_link_description="true"
no_categories_text="your text"
Example: [links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"]
When using the block, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.
Example: include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"
With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4.
The link list becomes 2 columns in small screens (except when number of columns is set to 1).
You can also disable the columns. This can be handy if you only want to use your own styling.
The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block. Because you can set the columns via the block settings.
With the hide link title attribute you can hide the link title if the link has an image assigned to it. This way you can display the link image only, instead of both.
This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it.
Please take a look at the FAQ section.
Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More translations are very welcome!
The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.
Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!