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  • Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: [Simple Link Library] How do I import my existing links?
    Plugin Author MaikelM

    (@maikelm)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    Problem reproduced.
    The (old) WordPress Link manager /wp-admin/link-manager.php is not compatible with this plugin. This plugin was developed due to the fact that WordPress stopped development with the default Link Manager plugin.
    On old WP installations you will see after installing this plugin also still the good-old-Wordpress Link manager. I should have chosen a different name for this plugin, because when you upgraded your WP installation from version 3.x to the current version you now see two ‘Link’ items active in the left-menu in your dashboard.

    You should consider stop using the ‘Link Manager’ plugin, see: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Links_Manager. This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress so from a security point of view a risk.

    There is however no export/import tool to automatically move your links created with the (old) WordPress link manager to this plugin. So in order for this plugin to show links, links must be created using the wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=bms_link function.

    Regards, Maikel

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: [Simple Link Library] Fixing no space before parenthesis
    Plugin Author MaikelM

    (@maikelm)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Great input! Thank you. I was never aware that the lack of space for the link count was an issue. Since this is a breaking (visual) change when applied, I am not sure I will implement it on the next update.
    The ‘nofollow’ is a brain breaker. I think one should use it for user supplied forum content or comments on blogs. But the ‘nofollow’is a biased SEO discussion. Why not use it when your links are valuable and you do not mind extra (bot)traffic to the sites in your link library?

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