Maarten

I have just released a new version (1.3) of the plugin. Could you please verify that the issue has been resolved?

Hi mealex, thanks for the suggestion. Your request has been implemented in version 1.3, which has just been released. For details see the release notes.

That could certainly be an interesting feature. Would you like the pagination to break the post in which it is shown or should links be shown in a ‘frame’ of sorts in which you can browse?

I have been struggling with this option myself. Should there be multiple templates to choose from? Is there a use-case? (apparently there is) Will this make the plugin too complicated? Should it be possible to include the template in the short code? etc…

I’m interested to know other opinions on this.

Hello icedms,

You raise an interesting issue. Although the plugin contains some information, I have to admit that specially with limited knowledge of programing and html, it could be challenging to work out the best template for your situation.

As a start for a more detailed manual/tutorial, I have gathered all existing information on the plugin page on my blog: http://blog.bigcircle.nl/about/wordpress-plugins/links-shortcode/ and elaborated a little bit further. I hope it helps.

I’m not sure why this would not work. Could you have a look at http://blog.bigcircle.nl/2010/07/social-media-links/
On that page different categories of links are shown, per category. The first tag for example used is [links category_name=”Social media trends”]
You should use the exact Category name (“Karate”?), and not the category slug (“karate”?).
I hope this helps!

To simply list the links with a bullet in front of each link, use the following main template:

<li class="link [link_category]">
<a class="link-title" href="[link_url]" target="_blank">[link_name]</a>
</li>

Use the following ‘before’ template:
<ul>
and the following ‘after’:
</ul>

Without bullets, just use the following as the main template:
<a class="link-title" href="[link_url]" target="_blank">[link_name]</a><br />

And then in the post where you want to show the links use the shortcode without further customization: [links]

Hello pander,

In the latest version you can define your own template to display links in any way you like. The plugin includes some help on that, but here’s an example on how to show links in a table:

You could add images in a column next to the description by using the following:

<tr style="width:100%;">
<td style="width:100px;vertical-align:top">
[optional <a href="[link_url]" target=_blank><img src="[link_image]" border=0 style="width:100px"></a>||]
</td><td>
<div class="links_sc_fb" style="text-align:left">
[optional [date]: ||]<a href="[link_url]" target="_blank">[link_name]</a>
[optional <br />[link_description]||]
[optional <br />[fb_button]||]
</div>
</td></tr>

You will need to add the following as code to be inserted before the links:
<table style="margin:0;padding:0;">
And the following to be inserted after the links:
</table>
I hope this helps.

Maarten