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ukcw
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A further update – I’ve currently included the category selector as a drop-down menu on the page using the AJAX method (have also tried the GET methods) and when I click ‘GO’ regardless of the category selected, all links are displayed unfiltered.
I can’t work out why this might be – have tried reinstalling the plugin and disabling all other plugins in WordPress. I am using wordpress 5.4.1 in case that helps.
Many thanks for your help
Trevor.
Sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with Link Library. First, just to check, have you tried just showing all categories at once? Did that work correctly? Could you provide a screenshot of the link categories page so I can see your categories, their IDs, and the number of links per category?
Thread Starter
ukcw
(@ukcw)
Hi
Thank you for getting back to me. I spent a fair while trying to make it all work switching around and testing all the settings you have on the plugin. I almost gave up, – and unfortunately lost all my links (my fault – I didn’t back up before performing a particular operation during updating) but then had a breakthrough.
Thankfully, there was no problem with the functionality of the plugin – or my WordPress install. Turns out I had misunderstood how all the plugin settings were working together – I persevered because I knew you had 10000+ users and couldn’t find anyone else with the same issue, and also had extensively tested first if it was an incompatibility with the theme or any plugins I was already using – but these checked out OK, so my logic was that it had to be something in the settings if it wasn’t a bug. I wish I understood more, as it would have probably saved a lot of heartache.
A few other items I came across while I was trying to get the settings right:
1. Under Global Options > Category selection method there are two choices: Multi-select list and Comma-Separated ID list. There didn’t seem to be a pop-up help for this, and I couldn’t work out where it is being used / relates to.
2. On the submission form, there is a field called ‘Reciprocal Link’ which is pre-filled with ‘http://’. I have set the field to show on the submission form (not required), but when I test submissions, there is a message displayed when you try to submit that says ‘The input value is not a correct URL. Requires http://’ (I leave the field alone, so the http:// pre-filled information is still in the field). If I hide the field, I can submit a form successfully. I’m thinking this is probably something wrong with my WordPress site as I assume no-one else has contacted you about this issue already?
3. Could I suggest a very small thing – perhaps the Link Address and Reciprocal Link field alerts could say ‘The input value is not a correct URL. Requires http:// or https://’ – because it works if you use either. Just a thought.
I hope you don’t mind me submitting these items. I think the plugin is great.
Many thanks for your help
Kind regards
Trevor.
Thanks for the feedback. All points have been addressed in version 6.5.6 which will be available later today. For point #2, I relaxed the validation rules so that it won’t actually validate reciprocal URLs if they are not required. For sites that require them, this won’t change anything. If they are not required, they there is a chance that the URL entered might be an invalid URL.
