Wordpress plugin - is this possible?
 

On some of my larger blogs I would like to exchange links based on the blog category. Is there currently a plugin that would allow me to put different links within each category? Basically a blogroll that changes with each category page. If there is not an existing plugin available is this something that is even possible? Any information would be appreciated, thanks! :thumbsup

Anything is possible and that is a good idea.

If I'm not mistaken, newer versions of Wordpress allow you to categorize links, so you should be able to show a category of links on a matching category page.

Shouldn't be too hard to put something like that together.. :2 cents:

Thanks, guess I shouldn't have shared it on a public forum. :winkwink:

Really? I guess I should take a look around, wasn't aware of an update like that. Thanks for the heads up.

Any idea where I could have it put together?

I did this back when I was blogging pretty heavily, and if I still have the code, I'd be happy to give it to you free of charge.

I'm not 100% sure it'll work with the new version of wordpress, and it isn't a "plug in" or anything .. you'd have to manually hard-code it back in every time WordPress released a new version ... but the price is right, so ... :winkwink:

I'll untar some things next week and see.

Damn. I'd like a piece of that too if its going! ;)

I would really appreciate it! I am more than willing to compensate you for it. As long as it is working with the current version of WP I will pay you to dig it out for me (and Mike Semen it seems). Do you think that this is something that could be coded into a plugin?

Shouldn't be to hard, looking for this as well.

its not too hard to do if you are familiar with the wordpress code base

this has been doable in wordpress for a long while, read up some more

might be interested in this plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-links/

Sounds like a great plugin if ever there's one out there :P

Thank you sir. :thumbsup

or this way via template codes

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_..._Sorted_by_URL

why complicate your life? Assuming you're using the latest WP version, simply do this:
1- create the category if you don't already have it
2- edit your links by going to yourdomain/wp-admin/link-manager.php. When you hover over your links (which will be assigned to Blogroll by default) you'll see the words edit|delete shows up. Click on edit.
3- assign to each link the category where you want the link to show up. You'll see other options as well, like Target, Link Relationship, Images (ie for banners), ranking and such

That's it. No plugin, no code needed :)

should be able to do it with a conditional include of sorts.

of course You need the code on your sidebar, or it wont display any links

I wrote a plugin a few years back that did that. Simple to do.

I can't find my tarballs except for the Autoblogger code and some other random things ... but if I do stumble across it and those newer plugins don't solve your problem, it's still yours and anyone else who wants it for free. :)

This takes seconds with TextPattern. I think you need to make another 50 tables for it to be considered WordPress worthy, though.

JOIN LEFT, and they will cum.