WordPress.com Forums » Topic: My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin WordPress.com Forums » Topic: My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin? en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:44:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 garymgordon on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin/page/2#post-997246 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:02:58 +0000 garymgordon 997246@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just want to share my opinion and comment. Personally, I feel that many people use the LINKS functionality and while there may be better ways to do this, I would prefer to see the LINKS area "improved" as opposed to dropped and require the use of some other feature. I'm not sure if this is possible, but if WordPress could simply improve the functionality of the LINKS feature, as opposed to eventually removing it and forcing users to replicate "links" by doing it another way, I'd vote for just an improvement of the LINKS area.

:-) But I'm really happy that you've decided not to remove it at this time.

Thanks,
Gary

]]> justjennifer on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin/page/2#post-992792 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:13:16 +0000 justjennifer 992792@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the info @macmanx-In the long run, though, that's a shame. I have dozens of links that I share via my links section and the ability to display a random selection of those links keeps my sidebar sane and tidy.

]]> macmanx on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin/page/2#post-984254 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:44:35 +0000 macmanx 984254@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Though some themes support only one (or sometimes zero) Custom Menus, this only referrers to the navigation menu area.

You can still create as many Custom Menus as you'd like for use with Custom Menu Widgets.

Unfortunately, the ability to display a small set of random links out of a larger group of links is not currently available in the Custom Menu system.

]]> justjennifer on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin/page/2#post-984251 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:24:26 +0000 justjennifer 984251@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ryan-Thanks for the further clarification.

So then all themes will support having multiple Custom Menus (obviously referring to those that currently support only one), as well as multiple copies of the Custom Menu widget?

On my personal site (justjennifer.wordpress.com) I have 4 different link widgets in the sidebar, each one displaying links from a different link category. On a couple of the widgets, I have set them up to display a random 10 links because I have quite a number of links in that particular category.

In short, will I be able to do this using the Custom Menu? I'm particularly concerned about losing the ability to display a random 10 links.

]]> ryan on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-984238 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:30:19 +0000 ryan 984238@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21307

Sorry. This was prematurely launched on wordpress.com and has since been reverted. Links will eventually be retired for new blogs (blogs created after the switch is eventually flipped). Blogs created before the switch is flipped will retain the Links UI and all data.

The way forward will be Custom Menus (Appearance > Menus) along with the Custom Menu widget. This allows manual sorting, a better UI, and other improvements. Those who are aware of creating blogrolls in Custom Menus rarely look at the crusty old Link Manager again. Documentation and some improvements to the Custom Menus UI will accompany the eventual switch.

]]> macmanx on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-984181 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:13:30 +0000 macmanx 984181@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We don't know for sure yet, we haven't made any plans. We will most probably consider some way to preserve them if we do remove the feature.

]]> phoxis on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-984171 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:07:17 +0000 phoxis 984171@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, it was there when when i posted in this thread. I wanted to know in case you decide to remove the link feature, where the existing links will go? I mean the data, ie. the links we have saved. Although i know wp will take care of the stuffs well, but my point was, if you select to remove the links feature, then please consider some mechanism such that the existing links are backedup and we don't loose them.

]]> macmanx on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-984138 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:19:44 +0000 macmanx 984138@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please see above, the Links section is back and we have not decided what we will be doing in the future regarding this.

]]> phoxis on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-984129 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:11:50 +0000 phoxis 984129@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Where will the existing links go?

]]> ncnegin on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983587 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:50:57 +0000 ncnegin 983587@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @viper007bond Thank you for that great news!

]]> ncnegin on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983577 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:46:29 +0000 ncnegin 983577@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @macmanx the custom menu/custom widget option works real well. Thanks for that solution.

]]> justjennifer on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983569 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:41:55 +0000 justjennifer 983569@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Alex. (Should have refreshed first!)

]]> justjennifer on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983565 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:41:13 +0000 justjennifer 983565@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ncnegin-Because it's the Links/Blogroll Menu in the Dashboard that generates the content for the widget.

opinion/
We're not standalone WordPress here. And while I appreciate that most features of standalone WordPress do get incorporated here, it doesn't necessarily follow that if something is taken away from standalone WordPress, it has to disappear here, especially since we don't have the option of using plugins to make up for it. Just my 2ยข.
/opinion

Would be happy to hear that something even better is in the works. As ncnegin said above, we use it... a lot.

]]> viper007bond on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983561 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:38:19 +0000 viper007bond 983561@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi everyone,

The Links menu should now be back for recently created sites. Older sites were never affected.

While the core WordPress software that we run is moving towards removing the links functionality in favor of other solutions (namely a plugin), we're not quite ready for that change yet so for the time being the links functionality is back. What we're going to do in the future has yet to be decided.

]]> ncnegin on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983554 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:34:20 +0000 ncnegin 983554@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @houstonweaver, thanks for the tip. That is an elegant workaround to getting wordpress to write the html code for me.

What I don't understand is taking away a widget that did that for me, all on the same page, with nice little dialogue boxes and options such as "_blank" to open them on a new page.

Why not just leave the widget?

]]> justjennifer on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983551 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:31:06 +0000 justjennifer 983551@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @macmanx - And will existing WordPress.com sites continue to display the Links Menu section in the Dashboard and have the correlating links widget in the Widget Dashboard?

http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/links-widget/

]]> timethief on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983547 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:26:31 +0000 timethief 983547@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You can use a Text widget to create you own. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

]]> houstonweaver on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983544 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:25:43 +0000 houstonweaver 983544@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @mcnegin I think the easiest way to make a text widget with links would be to create a post with the links, save it as private. Then when you have it looking like you want, go to the text tab and copy the HTML code and paste it into a text widget.

]]> ncnegin on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983537 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:21:42 +0000 ncnegin 983537@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Also, please don't remove the links section from wordpress.com

We use it...a lot.

Thanks.

]]> ncnegin on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983530 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:19:07 +0000 ncnegin 983530@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How would I put a list of links on the sidebar?

]]> macmanx on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983505 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:05:54 +0000 macmanx 983505@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sure, you can list links via HTML in a Text widget, or use a Custom Menu Widget as mentioned above.

]]> houstonweaver on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983503 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:05:05 +0000 houstonweaver 983503@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Will we be able to add a text widget and list links in it if we prefer having some in the sidebar?

]]> macmanx on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983462 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:46:40 +0000 macmanx 983462@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The Links section was removed from the core WordPress.org software, which means that it will probably be removed from WordPress.com soon.

In preparation for that, new blogs no longer display the Links section.

Instead of using Links and a Links Widget, I recommend creating a Custom Menu and a Custom Menu Widget.

See this for more info and a video tutorial: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

]]> timethief on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983452 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:39:13 +0000 timethief 983452@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please never ever delete blogs because the URLs of deleted blogs are not recycled and cannot be used by anyone ever again, and because deleting blogs never ever resolves any issues you have.
Deleted blog URLs here are not recycled.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/delete-blog/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

]]> theoverrun on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983445 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:36:01 +0000 theoverrun 983445@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Notice to the staff: josh05280 and theoverrun are both me, the same person. The blog rasterizedthoughts.wordpress.com was deleted by me, and I created theoverrun.wordpress.com to try to fix this issue, but neither blog has the links sidebar available in admin.

]]> timethief on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983434 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:31:40 +0000 timethief 983434@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've flagged this thread for Staff attention. Please hang in there.

]]> theoverrun on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983429 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:30:20 +0000 theoverrun 983429@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Says I don't have permission, despite being an administrator.

]]> timethief on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983423 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:27:20 +0000 timethief 983423@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @josh
Try this link http://rasterizedthoughts.wordpress.com/wp-admin/link-manager.php

@theoverrun
Try this link http://theoverrun.wordpress.com/wp-admin/link-manager.php

]]> josh052980 on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983406 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:17:56 +0000 josh052980 983406@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ theoverrun is me... Links are not available in either blog even though they are on separate accounts.

]]> theoverrun on "My Blog Has No "Links" Section in the admin?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-blog-has-no-links-section-in-the-admin#post-983402 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:16:39 +0000 theoverrun 983402@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The above options are not showing in my admin. I just created a brand new blog to alleviate the problem to no avail, links are not available in it either.

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