Title: Install Link Blog plugin
Last modified: July 15, 2017

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# Install Link Blog plugin

 *  [Abiel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aabuy/)
 * (@aabuy)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-link-blog-plugin/)
 * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredpath/)
 * (@sacredpath)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-link-blog-plugin/#post-9336259)
 * Hi there, if you notice on the [Link Blog Plugin page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-blog/),
   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](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
    [Post Formats](https://codex.wordpress.org/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aabuy/)
 * (@aabuy)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-link-blog-plugin/#post-9343679)
 * 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.
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/kabayantech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/screenshot.jpg)
 * 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](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!
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [Abiel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aabuy/).

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