Install Link Blog plugin

  • Abiel

    (@aabuy)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hello!

    I’m trying to switch to Penscratch theme, so far every is perfect.

    On my blog… 90% to 95% of my post will be “link” post format. On my previous theme, I was able to install and use the Link Blog plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-blog/). Now I cannot seem to install the Link Blog plugin using Penscratch, can you help me install or setup the plugin for Penscratch?

    Any help with be appreciated.

    Cheers!

    Abiel

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  • sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there, if you notice on the Link Blog Plugin page, that plugin hasn’t been updated in two years and there have been a lot of changes to WordPress and WordPress themes in that time (since version 3.4 of WordPress). I expect that plugin will not work with WordPress anymore.

    What you can do is to create a Child Theme, if you have not already and then add the Link Post Format and the necessary CSS to style it the way you want.

    Child Themes
    Post Formats

    Do not modify the existing theme files as any update to the theme would then overwrite your customizations. With a Child Theme, your customizations would be safe.

    Thread Starter Abiel

    (@aabuy)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Thank you for the reply.

    I tried using the “link” post format, the issue when I go this route is that I will end up having two hyperlink of with the URL.

    If I will scrap the plugin, I guess that I need to do now is to “specify the URL explicitly when adding a new “link” post, into a separate field between the title and the content.”

    I found this on stackexchange (https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/115376/add-url-field-to-the-link-post-format) and like with the plugin, I cannot seem to successfully implement the suggested code.

    I’m willing to republish all my post, as long as I can get this to work.

    Thanks again!

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