Title: Built-in Link Manager
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Built-in Link Manager

 *  [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/)
 * Knowing WordPress has abandoned its Link Manager, I still find it useful, and
   it already exists on my older WP sites.
    Does Custom Content Shortcodes support
   it?
 * This doesn’t work, for example:
 *     ```
       [loop taxonomy="link_category" count="5" category="blogroll"]
         [field name]
         [field description]
       [/loop]
       ```
   
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192181)
 * It looks like they are stored as taxonomy terms and fields. So, I would try using
   the [for] loop:
 *     ```
       [for each="link_category" count="5"]
         [each name]
         [each description]
       [/for]
       ```
   
 * Does that work?
 *  Thread Starter [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192411)
 * [@eliot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eliot/) Akira, well yes, but no.
   I don’t think I explained myself well.
 * That returns the link_category Names along with their Descriptions. ([As seen here.](https://cloudup.com/ciS9zMhpy90))
 * I’m looking to return the (_Name_ and _Description_* for each Link posted to 
   the link category, _Fuzzball_, for example. ([See visual](https://cloudup.com/c0NO-NGJnWy))
 * * _Description_ can only be seen on the full page. ([See visual](https://cloudup.com/chRt7n2s4gn))
 * Does that help?
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192417)
 * I’ve looked deeper into this by installing Link Manager, to see how its content
   is stored. Surprisingly, the links are stored in a way that is not straight-forward
   to retrieve; the links (and their fields) require their own special functions,
   which is not built into [loop]. So this may take some time to implement.
 *  Thread Starter [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192421)
 * Eliot, no worries. Seeing as WP has abandoned the Links Manager on a fresh WP
   installs, who knows how long before it’s depreciated. It’s probably the least
   utilized WP function.
 * Sadly, the Links Manager already fits the needs of a sponsors page without reinventing
   the wheel (adding a new custom post type with some ACF fields).
 * Thanks again for your hard work.
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192422)
 * OK – I’m kind of glad to hear it’s not so critical for you to have this feature.
   It would have been another optional module, and I wondered if it would be so 
   useful in general.
 * It was interesting to see how the Link Manager worked. Some funny-sounding fields
   too, like “Link Relationship: romantic – muse, crush, date, sweetheart”!
 * In terms of flexibility and maybe future compatibility, I think it would be better
   to build it with custom post type, taxonomy and fields. That way you can have
   only the necessary fields, and be able to display it easier.

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 * Last reply from: [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/built-in-link-manager/#post-6192422)
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