Title: wp_links table doesn't exist
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# wp_links table doesn't exist

 *  [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * (@jazzs3quence)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/)
 * Might be a bit of an edge case and I’m not even sure how I made this happen BUT…
 * if the wp_links table has been deleted AND the `link_manager_enabled` option 
   is still TRUE, you get this error when you’re trying to add a new rss feed.
 * Like I said, I’m not even sure how I managed to pull this off, I think I may 
   have manually dropped the links table without knowing there was a link_manager_enabled
   setting (until trying to debug this issue).
 * In other fun news, setting the value of `link_manager_enabled` manually to 0 
   from 1 does work in getting the links menu to disappear, however, re-loading 
   the wp-admin will reset it back to 1.
 * –The only solution, as far as I could figure out, was to remove the link manager
   option entirely.–
 * **Update:** Nope, that didn’t work either. So I’m back to not being able to add
   a feed.
 * Rather than checking for the option, it might be worth checking for the existence
   of the links table or adding that to the check.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * (@jazzs3quence)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/#post-3682894)
 * …yeah…just read the inline comments closer. Guess it’s sort of by design that
   the `link_manager_enabled` option gets flipped on, which leaves me SOL having
   dropped the table (as well as anyone with a fresh WordPress install which doesn’t
   build the wp_links table).
 *  [dspilka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dspilka/)
 * (@dspilka)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/#post-3682904)
 * I’m seeing a similar issue with WP 3.5.1. The link manager functionality apparently
   has been removed and FeedWordPress has some sort of dependency from what I can
   tell.
 * You can use this plugin to re-enable the link manager and it fixes the issue 
   for me. Here is the plugin: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-manager/)
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * (@jazzs3quence)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/#post-3682908)
 * Thanks [@dspilka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dspilka/) — that works 
   as a short-term fix. With fresh WordPress installs, the wp_links table is never
   created (which is what you are looking at/referring to). In my case I just dropped
   that table from the database manually since I knew it was being deprecated.
 * Looking at the code (mostly going off the comments), it looks like FeedWordPress
   is using the links manager more for the user roles/capabilities as opposed to
   actually _using_ the links manager, which makes it both easier to fix (since 
   it’s not really relying on anything specific to the links manager, per se) and
   harder to fix (since roles and capabilities are generally used as checks throughout
   a plugin so the whole thing would need to be audited if that was the case and
   all those checks changed to other roles/capabilities).
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * (@jazzs3quence)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/#post-3682996)
 * Actually, using the Link Manager plugin didn’t work for me either. I still get
   wp_table doesn’t exist when I try to add a feed.

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 * Last reply from: [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_links-table-doesnt-exist/#post-3682996)
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