Title: [Plugin: Custom Content Type Manager] Feature Request: Links
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Custom Content Type Manager] Feature Request: Links

 *  [emmdub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmdub/)
 * (@emmdub)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-content-type-manager-feature-request-links/)
 * First off, thanks for CCTM, definitely one of the most useful plugins for wp (:
 * I would love to have the ability to deal with links, in one of two ways:
 * 1. Links Custom Field: Provide fields for entering the url and link description,
   optionally title and target as well.
 * 2. Relation Custom Field: Add Links from the wp links library as an available
   post-type for Relations.
 * Thanks!
 * m.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * (@fireproofsocks)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-content-type-manager-feature-request-links/#post-2628255)
 * The links field would be a great feature request: [http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/](http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/)
 * You cannot however, tie links into the other relation fields: that’s because 
   of how WordPress is built. Whereas posts, pages, images, etc. all store data 
   in the **wp_posts** table, the links in the blogroll are stored in a completely
   different table (**wp_links**), so they represent a completely different data
   type. So you don’t get any of the nice features from having data stored as a 
   post (e.g. taxonomy, search features, linking, relations, etc). It’s really a
   bummer — evidence (in my opinion) of WordPress’ immature architecture.
 * I think one solution to this problem might be to do what other CMS’s do: store
   link data as a real post-type. It would require a custom field type to store 
   that data, and that would allow you to present multiple fields for each link (
   like you said: url, description, title, target, etc), AND since it would be stored
   as a post, you could tie into the regular search features, taxonomies, etc.
 * It’s all doable, I just need a project to jumpstart it. This is probably one 
   of the features I’ll kick off to [http://fundry.com/](http://fundry.com/) if 
   I don’t get a project coming in that requires it sooner.

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 * Last reply from: [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-content-type-manager-feature-request-links/#post-2628255)
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