Description
WordPress Link Directory is a link directory plugin for WordPress which allows you to keep a directory of links and allow other webmasters to add their link to your site. It can check for reciprocal links and even check the Pagerank of the other site and accept or refuse the link based on criteria you specify.
The main features are:
- Automatically checks for reciprocal links on pages specified by Pagerank.
- Displays the Pagerank of all sites in the directory.
- Option to display more detailed information on each link.
- Available in several languages.
- Option to notify the admin when a new link is submitted.
- Integrates seemlessly with WordPress and adopts whichever theme you’re using.
Demo & Download
You can view a demo of WP Link Directory in action here. We use it to handle all our outgoing links. It is quick and painless to set up.
You can download WordPress Link Directory from this WordPress page.
Installation
1. Upload the wplinkdir folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. Create and publish a new page or post with this tag in the body: [wplinkdir]
A new WP Link Directory menu will appear in WordPress with access to the settings and options. To begin with you should create a few categories and change the ‘HTML for reciprocal link’ option. You may also want to delete our demo link.
Upgrading:
As of version 1.2 WordPress Link Directory now detects which version you’re upgrading from and automatically adds any new features. The simplest way to upgrade is to simply deactivate the plugin, upload the new files to the plugin directory, then reactivate.
Developers
WordPress Link Directory is commented throughout and the readme.txt contains more information on what the different functions do. WP Link Directory is under the GNU General Public License and so you should feel free to modify the code. All I ask for is that you keep the URL of this page or to the WordPress page so that people can still find the original.
In the changelog.txt file there is also usually a To Do list which has ideas for new features and functions which is worth looking at. If you do modify the code then I’d love to see what you’ve done, feel free to drop a comment with a link and I’ll check it out first chance I get.
Translation
With version 1.5 came language and translation options. The plugin was Internationalized, which is a WordPress term and means that it includes a .pot file. This file has a list, or table, of all the text in the plugin in its native language (English). Using a free application like poEdit (http://www.poedit.net) anyone can translate the plugin to their own language in a matter of minutes. If you are trying to translate the plugin into your own language check the readme.txt file in the /lang directory for more information.
We are keen to make WordPress Link Directory available in more languages and encourage anyone who speaks another language to help us translate the plugin for others. If you have translated the plugin into your native language please let us know in the comments below and we’ll make it available for everyone.
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472 comments ↓
I must be a lucky duck today since I am searching for your plugin 2 days after you release it. Good thing WordPress Reciprocal Links didn’t work for me, because your plugin looks a lot smoother. Good work !!!! You can click my link to see that I have it implemented.
Oh yeah..
Requested features:
Manually add a link.
Email notification upon new link submission.
Looking forward to using this, I’ll drop you another note as soon as I get it up and going!
Very nice, thank you
Is it possible to share the links with another site/blog? (If I run a few blogs and want to use the data on another one, is it possible to move everything to the new one).
hello,
some bugs i found:
1. click on your demo link, choose an categorie and then click the home link. it doesn’t work.
2. when i deaktivate the plugin, all my categories are gone away
Hello,
Sometimes when click Add URL will back home not submit page.How to fix it? Thanks!
I am already getting submissions using this plugin. But one thing I noticed is there is no way to find out where the reciprocal link is for their submissions.
Just to let everyone know I’ve now released Version 1.1 which has:
New option to allow use of HTML in site description field.
New option to email the admin whenever a new link is added to the directory.
Ability to manually add links from the admin section without the requirement of a reciprocal link.
URL of reciprocal link page is now displayed (if supplied) in the admin section.
Cleanse function added which checks all links in the directory for reciprocal requirements.
Issue where Home page wasn’t linked correctly or would create long HTTP queries fixed.
Issue with double escaping of quotes (‘ and ” => \’ and \”) fixed.
Duplicate links are thrown out (before they would be accepted).
WP Link Directory is still in the early stages though so keep those ideas, suggestions and bug reports coming and I’ll do my best to update and include them in future versions.
@AllanA
I don’t think that would be a widely used function so I haven’t added it, but you could accomplish that by installing the plugin on another site then using phpmyadmin to copy your existing links to the new site. They’re stored in the table [wp-prefix]wplinkdir_links.
Wow Sean that was fast ! I’m glad you’re fine tuning this plugin. Even though there is a good demand for a WordPress Reciprocal Link Directory plugin, the others have been abandoned by their devs and simply don’t work.
Thank you Sean
Hi Sean,
Great plugin. I’ve implemented it on motorklassiek.nl but there a still a few bugs I’ve noticed on 1.1.
html-tags entered in the ‘edit links’ forms () are altered by the script and don’t work (anymore) after pressing the update button
double links won’t be filtered out as it should according to your readme-file.
and some more (slipped my mind, sorry)
I’ve altered the update-script so that the script recalculates the pagerank if I press the update button in the edit links forms. That comes in handy if I import links via a sql editor. Perhaps you can make a function and button to recalculate pageranks for the websites linked on the fly?
And I translated it into Dutch. So that brings me to one suggestion, or wish for the next release: could you please prepare the script for localising? I guess that would be a big help for foreign webmasters who implement your plugin. I will help you with the Dutch localisation if you like.
this is an awesome plugin. i love the idea. i have used another one before called link exchange. but this is too good. i think we should see some enhancements soon in the next version.
Awesome that you are doing updates already! I started toying with 1.0 and now I’ll have to update to 1.1 and check out the new changes. It sounds like you already have some great changes made. A few others that would be great IMO is to have the ability for the page rank to only show if you are an admin. General users I don’t think need this data. Also, to have a check box in the config to nofollow the links.
Is this compatible with mu? I’m getting an error (Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.) when I attempt to save changes in mu.
Sean, great plugin, any idea why my install might be displaying with 4 columns(3 evenly spaced & 1 crunched) vs. 3 evenly spaced? Thank you!
Dear Mr.
I’d like extended options.
The list of links could also provide a link to open a post (so that users can decide wheter to directly go to the external site or read additionnal information before to take the decision). The post display the link, a text body, and display the RSS flux from the site.
With the possibility to use categories and contextual tags, that could allows to build informational sites on specific topics.
Another update: WP Link Directory Version 1.2 is now available. Here is a list of the new features available (some of them are mentioned/requested in the comments above me):
Automatic upgrading based on version added.
Ability to display detailed information about each link.
New option to add nofollow to links.
New option to display or hide Pagerank.
Optional Name and Email fields added to the Add URL page.
New option to change the order in which links are displayed.
New option to change how many categories are displayed per row.
The Pagerank for each site is now updated when Update is pressed in the edit links page.
Duplicate linking fixed. Before, duplicate links weren’t thrown out properly.
You can now deactivate and upgrade the plugin without fear of losing your existing links and categories.
I replied to Maarten on his own blog but for completeness the duplicate link issue has been corrected, the tags problem I couldn’t find but doesn’t appear to be an issue any more and internationalization (making the plugin available in other languages) is on my to-do list.
@Jason
I haven’t used WordPress MU or had any experience with it so I’m not sure if it’s compatible or not (from what you’re telling me it’s not). Unfortunately this isn’t a priority for me so I can’t promise this in the future. However the code is under GPL so you could edit yourself or pass it on to someone who knows more about WPMU and see if you can get it working.
@Brian
I had this issue too in v1.1 and managed to fix it for v1.2. You also now have the ability to specify how many categories should be shown per row.
@FabriceV
Extended information is now available but the features you mention (RSS, etc) go beyond the scope and intention of this plugin though creating a decent SEO page which links to each link seems like a worth while thing to do.
Cheers everyone!
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Hi there,
thanks for the new version. It solved a lot of problems I was having to deal with. Your settings page was a blessing.
Some suggestions:
1.Would it be possible to have a picture for the categories?
2. Maybe the same for the user who enters their link, have an option to have a small pic which would have to be approved by admin first.
Thanks again
Hi there! Many thanks for this plugin, it’s great. Just installed version 1.2 (good updates! just what i needed)… but i got some errors when editting: (naws Unknown column ‘date_modified’ in ‘field list’).
And the bigger problem: i can not add anymore sites! He says he added one but when i look in the links list, he’s gone. Maybe you can do something with this information.
Kind regards,
Rutger
Okay, never mind… forgot to disable the plugin first
Sean,
I hope to install the update LATE tonight, but I wanted to go ahead and send out a *BIG* thanks for jumping right in and getting those improvements implemented. Do you by chance like bourbon?
-Scott
Hi!
Well, I love the concept of this plugin – but it mysteriously quit working. Now the Add URL | Link To Us links go nowhere. Anyone else having this issue?
I’m having an issue where the Home | Add URL | Link To Us doesn’t link correctly. When you click any of these links it simply links back to the HOME page where I have the tag embeded. Now if you venture to a category it works fine.
Just released version 1.2.1 which has some minor changes. It fixes the problem that Stephanie & Mark (above) mentioned where sometimes the Add URL and Link To Us pages wouldn’t link correcntly.
It also adds some extras to the detailed information pages for your links such as backlinks and caches for the most popular search engines, Alexa stats and whois lookup. It also includes a thumbnail image of the website using http://thumbnails.iwebtool.com
@George
I don’t think there’s a huge demand for pictures for categories and links so I wont be looking to implement that. However, you could accomplish this for categories by finding and replacing this line in the wplinkdir_displaydir() function:
$page.=’<b><a href="’.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].$E.’cat=’.urlencode($Cat['title']).’" rel="nofollow">’.$Cat['title'].’ (‘.$LinkCount.’)</a></b><br>’.$Cat['description'].’</td>’;
With something like
$page.=’<b><a href="’.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].$E.’cat=’.urlencode($Cat['title']).’" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/’.$Cat['title'].’ .jpg" border="0"></a></b><br>’.$Cat['description'].’</td>’;
Then you would simply create an image for each category and upload it to the images directory on your site. If you wanted to create images for links you’d need a file upload form and some extra handling, but it should be pretty easy to accomplish too.
@Scott
Doesn’t everyone like bourbon? =]
Cheers Everyone
Thanks for the plugin! I haven’t installed it yet, but custom categories and/or tags have been something which have been missing from passed attempts at this.
Yours looks promising and I will install it. Thanks again.
The really is a great plugin!…. I am faily incompetent with php but how would one go about diplaying a specific category list with in a post? I mean if I write a post about teacups would it be possible to display any submitted links in the “teacups” category inside that post?. And ifso what about a submit your link url within the post?
Thanks
Matt
I just asked you about displaying specific categories with a post… if you do any freelance work I would be happy to pay you to implement this on a site I am working on.
email me if you are interested.
Matt
I’m having problem implementing it. I want the the links page display category name on the page title instead of just “Links”. For example “Blogging Links”.
Do you have any spare time to fix that?
@Sean, kudos on your latest release. The release solved the issue with the HOME | ADD URL | LINK TO US issue.
I’ve discovered several other bugs.
1.) The system won’t allow you to post a URL to site’s that may have disclaimers before the URL – example would be adult content – i.e. blogspot.com
2.) In the Admin section the script allows you to set Yes or No to receive email when a new link has been added. It seems by default it’s set to NO. When I attempt to save YES, it won’t keep the setting – it returns right back to NO.
In the latest release you have added some really cool external links to page ranking sites, WHOIS and so forth.
Is it possible that you could have these links open in a new window. It is my thinking, at least in my site that all external links should open in a new window. This keeps the user on your site – if they click off they have lost your site.
I cant add link manually from the admin panel.
After i field in the info about the link and click on add link nothing happens.
So how to add links manually?
This thumbnail image service you have incorporated into the latest release … does it work ? I’ve been awaiting the image previews to resolve for a couple days. I visited their website and notice they haven’t kept up with their support forum since like March 08.
Is anyone else having issues getting their thumbs to resolve ?
Are Links added automatically or do we have a chance to approve them.
This is needed to keep out of bad neighborhoods.
Very nice plugin
Here’s the updated code to fix the “email me” field not being displayed correctly.
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6356
Either copy/paste the whole lot or update your file between lines 358 and 370
Another version is now available: v1.3. Updates and imrpovements include:
Better shortcode handling added with category and page parameters. I.e. [wplinkdir page="Add URL"] or [wplinkdir category="Video Games"]
Captcha option added with captcha images supplied by captcha.net.
Thumbnails changed to thumbshots.org which are updated more frequently.
Email Me option now displays correctly.
All external links now have the target attribute of _blank.
@Matt
I included those shortcodes after you mentioned them, they were pretty easy to implement and will hopefully come in handy for others. Now if you post [wplinkdir category="News & Media"] on any page or post it will display all links in the News & Media category.
@Binh
Do you mean you want custom text in the <title> tags? If so this plugin doesn’t offer that yet. I’ve been trying to get custom permalinks working but haven’t had any luck.
@Mark
Thanks for your comments you pointed out a few issues. The Email Me option has been corrected, it was just a display issue and still worked, luckily.
I’m not sure about the sites with disclaimers issue, maybe if you could post a link to a couple of examples I could look at coding a solution, though it’s probably out of the scope of my knowledge.
I switched the thumbnail service to thumbshots.org which seems to be updated more often though I’m not sure how long sites which aren’t indexed take to get new thumbnails but it’s more than a few days at least. Anyway, it’s the best free service I could find.
I also took your advice and made all external links open in a _blank window/tab.
Cheers!
@Niklas
Are you getting any error messages or anything I can use to decipher the problem? If there is a problem inserting the link into the database it should normally display an error message.
@DON
I’ve now added a captcha option to route out spam. I’m also looking at sending links which don’t meet requirements into a “pending approval” list for an admin to check.
@ChuckMcB
I fixed the email me issue in the new version but thanks for the code none the less.
Aloha.a..
i want ask, why i can’t add url
erorr messages like this
The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.
can give me solution
thx
That message is returned when the script can’t open the URL supplied. I.e. it tried to view the page but it couldn’t or the URL didn’t exist.
I think someone mentioned earlier that it has problems with sites that have disclaimers and things like that so that may be the cause, what was the URL you were trying to add?
I want add url just for test
this domain
http://www.stardut.co.cc
if i add another url, error message same as like that
sory my english is bad
Great plugin. It would be very nice if users could search the directory. Is there a way to include it in the WP search, or will you be adding a search feature?
Oh, and one more thing. It would also be nice if we could delete/edit links from the directory itself, much like we can edit a post.
Thanks again.
Great plugin!
Maybe you can add to the next version – subcategories?
It would be the best Link Plugin for WP with this feature.
Thanks
> Email Me option now displays correctly.
Not quite
Line 386 unsets $yes & $no before they can be used to display the selected item.
Couple of suggestions:
Make the Category description a bit bolder to make them stand out more, h3 perhaps?
Change the title of the “Home” link stop any confusion between the WP home and the Link Directory home?
hi
i want to add this plugin on my blog, but it does not working.
i download then i put to my plugind directory on my host but i did not see my plugins on my control ( dashborad) panel.
could you help me ?
When inersting the link manually there is no error meassge, the hole dashboard just turns blank.
Is it possible to specify or restrict what category a user can add to? Such as if the user is in category games and wants to add a link is there some way of only being able to a link to games while in games?
Thanks
Just released yet another new version with some decent updates:
- New Search page which allows searching by URL, Title, Description or All
- One layer of Sub-Categories added which should be enough for most peoples needs.
- Email Me option finally displays correctly.
- Links added through the admin section now check and alert when a link cannot be opened, but add it regardless.
@BolaNaga
If you add the link through the admin section it will now work OK.
@Mark
I’ve added the search function but not the editing straight from the directory, though that should prove pretty easy to do. Next time I have some spare time I’ll give it a go.
@Tavik
Subcategories also added. They’re single layered but that should be enough for most people.
@ChuckB
Right enough, finally fixed it once and for all. As for playing around with the descriptions and text of the page I’d rather leave it as it is, I think most people can find and edit where that stuff is displayed if they want to.
@amarat
Does WordPress give you an error message or anything when you activate the plugin?
@Niklas
I think I identified where that problem was coming from and if I was right it’s been fixed in the new version. If not let me know and I’ll check it out further.
@Heidi
You could edit which categories are displayed in the menu bar relatively easily but I don’t see what advantage that would give you since surely the user could just click into another category and add the link from there?
Hello Sean,
I see you are working hard with this plugin. I seem to have a problem. I was trying to install on another site and got this message.
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Do you know what could cause this?
Thanks for the quick reply, I am not great with php could you give me an example of the syntax to use or what to edit?
Thanks
DON, I’m not too sure, is it a fresh new install or are you upgrading from an older version? And which version of WordPress are you using?
Heidi, the wplinkdir_sort_categories() function (line 557) handles displaying the category menu. To exclude certain categories you would find this line:
$entry.=’<option’.($Link['category'] == $Title ? ‘ SELECTED’ : ”).’>’.$Title.’</option>’; (line 576)
And add this before it: if($_GET['cat']==$Title){ and add } after it. This will mean that only the chosen category and any subcategories of it will be displayed.
Alternatively you could exclude the menu all together and DELETE this line:
<tr align=”left”><td><b>Category:</b></td><td><select name=”entry_category”>’.wplinkdir_sort_categories(‘Display’,$Cats).’</select></td></tr> (line 907)
Then after this line:
$page.=’<form method=”POST” action=”" name=”entryform”> (line 903)
Put in:
<input type=”hidden” name=”entry_category” value=”‘.$_GET['cat'].’”>
This will hide the menu but submit the link under the category they were browsing before they clicked Add URL.
Upgraded automaticly and all working fine, cheers Sean.
> I think most people can find and edit where that stuff is displayed if they want to.
True enough, but the down side is if we start editing the source will our modifications not be overwritten the next time you release a new version? Not a show stopper, just a pain.
More suggestions/observations:
- order search results by PR rather than ID
- redirect deleted links to front of link manager
- “Are you sure you want to delete” code in plugin but not used
- Add Subcategory link count
- You can have a main cat and a subcategory with the same name but it only ever displays the contents of the ‘first’ category. Further to this, if you delete the new category it deletes both categories.
How can i remove the Add link from the page where the plugin is running.
I want to add manualy all the sites in the directory
@Daniel: Try this: go to line 1076 of wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php and change it to read:
$page.=’Home | Link To Us | Search‘;
Then comment out line 1082 that will stop people going directly to the page.
Sean: I have version 1.3 and it is still the same problem.
It works now, the new version just came to the plugin panel. Thank you very mutch for this plugin.
Just a quick update: I’ve fixed a few issues and released version 1.4.1 which has these changes:
- Confirmation required when clicking the Cleanse button.
- Confirmation required when deleting links.
- Search results are now ordered by pagerank.
- Option to show/hide the number of links in each category and sub-category.
- Issue fixed where trying to view detailed info for links that don’t exist would try to display links and thumbnail. Now returns a ‘link doesn’t exist’ message.
Chuck, thanks for the suggestions, most of them have been implemented, though the categories issue I’ll try to clear up next update.
Hey Sean, I really love the way and speed you are going with this plugin and really am anxious to see a localisation option so that I don’t have to go through the complete code every day you are updating link directory
.
Possible bug: some guy tried to add a link to my site after he added my site to his. But somehow link directory cannot find a reciprocal link. I tried it to with his site, same error. My question, what is checked by LD, just the URL or the name too?
I keep getting the following message when I try to activate plugin:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_shortcode() in /home/vlt26/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 48
I’ve been playing with the plugin and I like how easy to use it is. The problem is that I’m making a niche directory, and want to be able to review the links before they are added to the directory. Is there an easy way to change the action of the “Submit Link” button on the Add URL form so that the content is emailed to me?
I’m also wonder what the best way to style the text in the category pages is. I noticed that on the subcategory page (linked to my name above) I’d like some space added between the description and the actual link. Can I put [wplinkdir directory] inside a div and add the style information in my theme’s main CSS file? Or is there a way to style it from within the plugin?
This is a wonderful plugin thank you so much. I was searching for this a while back and gave up after finding nothing even remotely close, then today came across it on accident… it made my day!
Cheers!
Seems that I receive a fatal error when trying to update the configuration settings on the main WP Link Directory page.
Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/opteye/public_html/wp-admin/options.php on line 23.
I am using WordPress Version 2.6.3 – Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Very nice plugin, but is there a way to translate it without having to edit the plugin itself?
v1.4.1 installed and working fine for me.
Just wanted to let you know, I love the plugin. You rock!
Hi!
Another feature request!
Please add to things – date of adding the link in the database and the number of clicks on links.
And it would be great if you add the templates like in WP-Downloads and WP-Polls!
Compliments for this great Plugin!
I have an issue with the captcha. When setting it to required I get the error: “SAFE MODE Restriction in effect”.
An option to approve all entries before they are published would be fantastic. I plan to offer a niche directory with no backlinks required and without nofollow. Without any means to prevent unwanted entries from being published I will become a target for spammers in no time. I will have to switch the directory off for this reason and for the moment.
An easy way to translate would also be much appreciated. I’d be glad to help with a German language file.
OK Doke, spent a lot of time and effort on internationalizing so hopefully I got it right. I’ve just released version 1.5, the only update is internationalization which has been requested a few times.
I didn’t create a .pot file but I have surrounded all output in __(), the default translation function in WordPress. Using poEdit (http://www.poedit.net) anyone can translate WP Link Directory into virtually any language. I’m still learning as I go and so I may need to tweak this process but if there are any problems or anything I’ve missed let me know.
@Maarten
Sorry to keep you constantly translating, you should be sorted now. As I said I’m new to the translation process in WordPress so let me know if there’s anything I’m doing wrong.
To answer your other question, only the link is checked by the plugin, not the text. It checks the page supplied in the Recip URL field for a link back. It checks for the URL you put in the Your URL field, so if that’s changed that may have caused the issue.
@Vernon
I believe you’re using an older version of WordPress that doesn’t support shortcodes, you may have to upgrade.
@Peggy
Thanks for your comments, the issue you mentioned with sub-categories being too close to the description text was actually a bug, I missed out a line break. This has been corrected in v1.5.
I’ve added a little more styling in the wplinkdir_styling() function but for the next version I’d like to have a separate style file so people can edit and swap their own styling. Until then the idea you mentioned about using your own div tag should work.
@Nicole
I’m not too sure, I’ve never seen this before. Simply deactivating then activating the plugin may take care of it, let me know if that helps.
@Fizzgigg & Ute
The plugin has now been internationalized and should be easy to translate.
Ute, the captcha requires PHPs GD Lib to be enabled to work. I don’t have an alternative just now unfortunately though I would like to offer links for approval to the admin in a future update.
@Tavik
The date is already included when someone submits a link. Hits in and out is on the to do list, as well as upgrading the styling.
Thanks to everyone for your support =]
It’s a couple of hours later and I generated a .pot file which can be used for translation. I’ve included it in v1.5 so you can download the new file and translate it for free using poEdit (http://www.poedit.net).
It’d be nice to offer a list of translation files from this page so if anyone has any .mo translation files please let me know here and I’ll upload your file either in with future updates of WP Link Directory or to this directory.
Thank you for the reply Sean, I did as you suggested and received the same error. I even tried going back one later version and had the same problem.
Nicole, I had a look for your problem in Google (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:wordpress.org+Fatal+error:++operator+not+supported+wordpress might help you out) and it returned a good few results. It seems this is a problem where arrays aren’t defined properly or are used wrong.
Unfortunately I don’t have a solution. I can’t find anywhere in the plugin where an error like this would be generated. You said this happened when you changed any of the main settings, so I had a look through the bit that handles that and I can’t see anything that would cause this.
Does it happen anywhere else or just when you change the settings? Does it also happen when you click the Cleanse button?
Here’s a possible improvement. How about having the ability to set the link’s target? I’m not fond of links popping up to a new window. Could this be offered either (a) on a per link basis or (b) universally through the admin window?
Great plugin indeed. Something that i have been looking for. However am looking for something more than just a link directory.
I would like to setup a wordpress based directory which can accept paypal/other gateway payments. I also want a few more functionality like SEO url for each category and auto-population of country/city,. eg.:
abc.com/finance/brokers/newjersey.html (here all brokers in new jersey will be listed)
For Paypal, people can pay a sum of money via paypal and wait for the admin to accept once payment is confirmed and then their link becomes live.
Is it possible to add this functionality?
This would make it killer trust me
Another quick update. I just did a re-release which updated a couple of translation points I missed out first time round.
@Mark
I just added a new targetting option which allows you to change the target of external links, enjoy!
@OnlineTips
SEO URLs or Permalinks are in the to-do list and as soon as I figure out how to do it they’ll be available.
The PayPal idea isn’t on the to-do list but I’ll keep it in mind in future updates, no promises though.
You may instead want to check out WordPress Link Directory (http://www.alectang.com/wordpress-link-directory/) which I believe (but I may be wrong) is the link directory behind this site: http://www.poweredbywp.com
It’s also a good few years out of date and so I didn’t feel too bad when I realized I’d stolen its name. Hope that helps.
Upgraded to v1.5 fine.
I notice that the PR link bars have been replaced by text only. Was that intentional?
Woops! That wasn’t intentional, I’d left out a styling element. Thanks for the update, I’ve re-uploaded to the same version, feel free to download and replace.
psst…the target code in the admin page is a big wonky, seems it’s mixed up with the nofollow code.
I’m sure you already did, but updated. Cheers =]
Hard to keep up with your lightnin speed, Sean!
…but I’m done with a German translation. What should I do with it?
Hey Ute, I’ve registered with Launchpad so I can centralize translation files but they’re taking their sweet time about approving it. But damn, that was quick! I’d suggest uploading to MegaUpload (http://megaupload.com) and dropping the link here. I’ll save it and include it with the next update.
Thanks!
As I’m not really familiar with poedit I would rather mail you my “outcome” before it goes public. You have my mail address in the comments… why don’t you drop me a line and I send back a zip?
> psst…the target code in the admin page is a big wonky,
> seems it’s mixed up with the nofollow code.
> I’m sure you already did, but updated. Cheers =]
Still wonky I’m afraid. You seem to be doing a check for “Yes” when the options are “_blank” or “_self”
Hi
The sortcodes don’t seem to work any more. [wplinkdir category="Games"] it now looks like it is adding characters to the end of the links?
any ideas?
Matt
Hi again Sean -
If its of any help I installed your upgrade today and got the same error. Cleanse does not create an error but just tells me that I have nothing to cleanse (as I was never able to change the default settings to require reciprocal links). I can add links and edit categories just fine, just errors out when I go to the initial WordPress Link Directory settings page. I have about 20 plugins installed including yours, if a list is helpful I’m happy to provide it.
Thanks again.
The new link target feature isn’t functional. Each time you save your selection it returns to default.
Only 3 subcatergories show under a main category on the HOME page. If for example you has 8 subcatergories can we show all the sub-categrories under that main category ?
Here’s a short improvement, change the name from “WordPress Link Directory” to something shorter. It occupies a lot of space on my menu, crowding out some others.
Hi Sean,
I’m using your plugin at directoriodeaerolineas.com and it is working fine! I have a question. I created many categories with some subcategories each. The thing is that all the links will go inside the subcategories and i’d like to know if its possible for the categories to show the number of subcategories contained or the number of links of all of its subcategories. I just dont feel comfortable the categories displaying a Zero on it, people may the think there are no links at all. Let me know if I explained this properly, if so how can I improve this?
Thanks!
Alejandro.
First I must say that I really like this plugin, but there are some things I would like added/changed.
1. I would like the option to remove bit and pieces of information on the “more info”-page, for example Cached Pages, Backlinks and Other Links.
2. I would like to be able to only let registered content providers add links (iow not subscribers and visitors but only admins, editors, and contributors).
3. I think these is a slight bugg in the scrips. When I add a link, on the more info-page it says “Added By: admin”. I am an admin, but wouldn’t it show the username instead?
But like I said, I really like this plugin and the only reason I talk about this is that I would like to use it as much as possible. Keep up the good work, Sean. We need more plugin programmers like you.
Has anybody already figured out how to get the safemode issue working
Warning: mkdir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 4434 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0
Hi, great plugin!
I’ve translated it in French, just tell me where I can send it to you.
Hey everyone, another update is now out there: version 1.6 which adds:
* New tagged and flagged fields added to MySQL which enable tagging.
* Tagging added using [link] tags. If enabled the [link] tag submits a new link when created from its attributes.
* Flagging option added for both tagged and standard links.
* Edit Links page displays links alot better, before it took up alot of space.
* Target finally fixed and now displays correctly.
* lang folder added with a README on translating WP Link Directory and an untested German translation is provided.
@ Ute
Thanks, your translation is now included with new versions.
@ Chuck
Thanks, finally updated =]
@ Matt
I emailed you directly but in answer to that shortcodes are now fixed. Specifically the category attribute had trouble with special characters like & but it should be OK now.
@ Fizzgigg
1. There isn’t a huge demand for customizing this page so I’ll put it on the to-do list but it’s not available now unfortunately.
2. You may want to check out v1.6 as mentioned, it has [link] tags available to anyone with write permission.
3. Thanks for that, I’ve now updated it to select the admins display name as selected in the drop down menu on the user settings page, though links that were inserted before this will still use the old names/emails.
Cheers =]
@ Nicole
I still don’t have a solution for you I’m afraid, I can only imagine it’s another plugin causing conflict. If you’re willing you could disable each plugin and try updating the settings til you find out if any are responsible for the error.
@ Mark
You could do it yourself by editing near line 1660. Find this line: $getSubCats=mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM $cat_table WHERE parent = ‘{$Cat['title']}’ ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT 3″);
And simply remove the LIMIT 3.
@ Other Mark
I’ve changed the admin page name to WP Link Directory which is a little shorter, though if you need it shorter still you could change that by editing line 192 to this for example:
$WPLD_Trans['WPLD']=__(‘WP LD’,$WPLD_Domain);
@ Alejandro
I see, you’re using it as a location/country directory. You could do this by editing line 1660 as above, but also add this on the line after it:
$numSubCats=@mysql_num_rows($getSubCats);
Then change this code a few lines down:
($ShowNums == ‘Yes’ ? ‘ (‘.$LinkCount.’)’ : ”) to ($ShowNums == ‘Yes’ ? ‘ (‘.$numSubCats.’)’ : ”)
@ Robert
That’s a problem with the CAPTCHA class. More info here: http://uk.php.net/features.safe-mode
Unfortunately I don’t have a solution yet.
@ Mitsuko
Thanks, I’ve sent you an email. P.S. Great looking site.
The new function where you can report a broken link has some layout issues. When you give the function a label in the admin panel ( REPORT BROKEN LINK ), the text runs together with the detailed info.
example: Click Here To Visit This SiteReport Broken Link
When I updated to v1.6 I recieved this error (with my pathways removed of course:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_link_shortcode() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:29) in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 107
Any suggestions?
Hi Sean, It’s great plugin.
I try to install it, and succes, but I have got an error when I add or edit category.
here’s an error:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in xxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 969
pls advice… thanks
I have got a same error as Siswo. Earlier everything was just going fine. I just updated it and get an error which says Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc():
Please advice.
I’m having some troubles too with the last version..
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in xxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1049
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /homepages/40/d178792552/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 969
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/40/d178792552/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 981
And so on…
I can’t add any category or any link.
P.S. I’ve sent you the french translation =)
Oh, and I went back to version 1.5, and when I test it like if I was a user, it always says me that the url doesn’t seem to be valid.
I’m getting the same error as Fizzgigg.
I want to put the code in the sidebar with the text widget. Is it possible???
Tanks,
Updated to your new version and I’m getting some errors.
1.) On the Home page I get the following message embedded at the top of the page as follows: Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1687
2. I can no longer edit any of the links. The links don’t show. I do see an error message on that admin page as follows: Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 925
I recieved this error (with my pathways removed of course):
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_link_shortcode() (previously declared in /home/enlazalo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:29) in /home/enlazalo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 107
thanks
For whatever reason, my directory works again. I downloaded an older version (1.5) and then upgraded again.
Actually, I jumped the gun. The directory does not really work. Will wait for update.
Hi Sean,
Thanks for writing such a useful Plugin. I appreciate your hardwork and generosity.
Unfortunately I ran into trouble right from the beginning. I get following errors:
Add Links:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 969
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 981
Edit Links:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 969
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 925
Edit Categories
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1049
I tried to search online for similar errors but nothing helped. I would appreciate if you can look into it.
Regards
FP
Hi Sean,
I tried Deactivating and then reactivating the plugin and now I get following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_link_shortcode() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:29) in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 107
New update available everyone: v1.6.1 which should solve most of your problems. Most of these issues were down to a problem with the WordPress shortcodes API and when you activate this update it will say something like:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Yet it still runs fine. I’m working on finding out the cause of this error message. Regardless, this should fix most of the problems above.
@ Mark
Cheers, fixed that with a space.
@ charlie
Not yet, but I’m working on widgets for various things.
@ Mitsuko
Thanks again for the .po .mo files, added them in with the new version.
Let me know if you’re still having problems, cheers!
I should also say that if you are comfortable with phpMyAdmin and you’re still have problems you can simply run this command:
ALTER TABLE `wp_wplinkdir_cats` ADD `parent` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ;
Replacing wp_wplinkdir_cats with your categories table. I believe this is the cause of most of the problems.
Sorry to report, but more errors. I downloaded the new version, deactivated the older one – uploaded. And got a fatal error when i reactivated.
I also can no longer edit the previously added links, i get an error message: Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 916
Obviously you cannot add a link or edit any link.
I attempting to run the command in phpMyAdmin I had no such luck. I ran the command and returned an error -
#1060 – Duplicate column name ‘parent’
Do you have a fix outside of altering from the phpMyAdmin ?
Hi Sean, first of all I have to say Thank-You for this plugin!
I’m just swithching over to the WP-platform and your plugin is awesome.
I’m getting the same exact error as Mark is, right above me. Everything worked great in version 1.5. Sorry to report the same message but I wanted to let you know.
Thanks for your effort and for building this for the community.
Hi there. Have not installed it yet, but there are 2 small problems on your instructions and demo:
you might want to use HTML code to show the tag to use.
- under ‘installation’ the tag is not mentioned, but actualy used (and it works
- Your “link to us” example generates a 404 link as it links to an incorrect (repeated) URL.
Will test it now, at least one request has been stated above: please make the count on the link page include all sublinks, this is the only logical way of counting the total of links in a category, it make no sense to display ’0′ if there are 20 subcategories, that are all filled.
Secondly, sub-subcategories would be nice.
Thanks,
Cheers,
Harry
Hi Sean,
I still get the Fatal error while reactivating the plugin:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_shortcodes() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:115) in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 135
Also what I noticed is there is no Database tables for the plugin under WordPress DB. Seems to be that error “Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource” is generating from the fact that there are no tables to fetch.
I translated it into Dutch and have got a .po file and a .mo file. I’m not sure if the filenaming is correct, but the translation tables are done. So how do I proceed?
What wplinkdir folder? I have a WordPress Link-Directory folder, but no wplinkdir folder.
Sean,
I love the idea of this plugin, I cannot wait to use this plugin, I am awaiting a newer update as I am getting these warnings appear(see below), I can see that you are working very hard to get this right so best of luck.
P.s Its your own fault for making such a good needed plugin
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in E:\domains\t\the-bathroom-designer.co.uk\user\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-link-directory\link-directory.php on line 960
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in E:\domains\t\the-bathroom-designer.co.uk\user\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-link-directory\link-directory.php on line 972
Just installed it but cannot use it. First the fatal error, but it still activates. When changing the options through admin, I get the “Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.” message and nothing gets saved.
Am using WPMU, would be great if it would work..
Cheers,
Harry
hi sean,
i got a warning in links edit setting
how to resolve this?
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/julianin/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 916hh
Thanks
julian
Here’s mine:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_shortcodes() (previously declared in /home/******/public_html/agabus/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:115) in /home/******/public_html/agabus/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 135
Wordpress 2.6.3 and the plugin version 1.6.1
Line 271 you call get_options() I think you meant get_option()?
I kept getting fatal on that. Fixed it but it wouldn’t create the tables. So I removed the check just below 271 and got it to create the two tables.
Then I get this error when I go to the edit categories.
Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/wkrp/website/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1088
There are no categories listed but I do have the example data in the two tables. Adding a category gives the same error.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Also same problem…
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_shortcodes() (previously declared in /home/gnetwork/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:115) in /home/gnetwork/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 135
this plugin is a great concept, when it works
I love the plug in but I get the error below,
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_shortcodes() (previously declared in /var/www/vhosts/cherrycreektoday.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php:115) in /var/www/vhosts/cherrycreektoday.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 135
My page is working now but sure would like an upgrade to fix it. This is really a sweet plugin.
FYI: v1.6.1 is giving me the same “Cannot redeclare wplinkdir_shortcodes()” error on a brand new install.
A new version is now available: v1.6.2 which should finally take care of all the problems mentioned above. It seems the problems weren’t created by the missing ‘parent’ column in MySQL but instead was all down to a single typo in the code which WordPress had problems with.
@ Harry
Thanks, fixed now =]
@ Maarten
Thanks for this, I sent you an email to follow up.
@ Jason
Thanks for pointing this out, it seems this was what was causing my fatal errors, but I couldn’t for the life of me see why.
To everyone else, thanks for your bug reports, they helped me fix the issues and assuming this version clears up all the above problems I’ll get to working on permalinks next.
If you run the new version and are still getting problems then I’d suggest doing a completely new reinstall by opening link-directory.php in notepad and uncommenting line 20 (simply remove the two slashes):
// register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, ‘wplinkdir_uninstall’);
Save and upload the file then deactivate the plugin. You can then re-activate it and it should work fine again.
WP Link Directory causes Snazzy Archives to disappear. When I deactivate the directory, Snazzy Archives reappears. Any ideas?
SA: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives
Why not use recaptcha? : http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html
Hi again ^^
I’ve upgraded to the last version, and I can’t display any of the categories, having this message :
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in xxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1648
(see here : http://anthilemoon.net/liens/)
What should I do ?
Installed the lastest version and it will NOT save Categories.
I added a category.
It says it’s added.
When I go to add a link or add another category there’s nothing there.
“Table ‘wplinkdir_cats’ doesn’t exist”
Wondering, should that be wp_linkdir.cats ??
Hey Sean, well eh… on top of all other bugs stated above, all my links kind a disappeared and all my categories too. That was after I first activated 1.6.2. After deactivate and reactivating the plugin, the standard links you provide after a first time install where put into my directory. After reinstalling 1.4 I was upgrading from, all links and categories re-appeared. Is the problem in upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6 ate once?
Do love this plugin though…
I forgot to mention, in the prior version I could not add links. This is the message:
“We couldn’t open the URL you supplied but the link was added anyway. You may want to check it to ensure it exists.
——- Link Added”
However the link was not added to the category..which was why I tried to upgrade in the first place.
Sorry to report that the latest version is broken. It removes everything and yields yet another error message. Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1648.
I’ll attempt the entire reinstallation …
Fresh install of v1.6.2: activated ok, but clicking on “add new link” caused these errors:
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6411
Tried using “register_deactivation_hook” and now only the line 104 error persists.
Upgrade from 1.6 caused errors. Used “register_deactivation_hook” and the upgrade went ok. But like Maarten Wilbers all links are lost. Clicking on “Add link” does not cause error and no other errors noticed.
Keep at it Sean! DLTBGYD (where B = bugs)
Back to Snazzy Archives, seems this plugin conflicts with some others, perhaps it’s a java script issue. In any event, I’d rather run the link directory over snazzy.
Everything works perfectly, except my old links (not many) don’t show up, just the example links and categories.
I have now totally deleted the plugin – Got the latest version and reinstalled. There seems to be no errors with the activation as before. HOWEVER, here is the latest problems.
1.) You cannot manually add a link from the WP Admin. If you do, it seems to go thru ok (in fact you are given a message that it has been added). Trouble is that the manually added link never appears in the directory and it doesn’t appear in the Admin to allow you to edit it.
2.) You can use the ADD URL function (as if you were a visitor). It adds the link, however if a subcategory was choosen it doesnt fall in as it should, instead it falls under the primary category.
3.) Once a URL has been added by a visitor, you cannot update or edit the link in the Admin. The UPDATE button and function is amiss of any command. It’s just a dummy.
4.) Generated emails about the adding of a new link return an invalid link; i.e. This is just a quick message to let you know that someone has added a link to your link directory on Just One Hot Minute …$1 (http://blog.gorgeousboys.com$2).
Link Name: Tattoo Finder$3 (PR 4
$4)
Site URL: http://www.tattoofinder.com$5
You can edit or delete this link by logging into your admin section. You can turn off email updates by turning the Email Me option in the admin section.
As you can see the $ symbol appears.
I’m thinking that it may be best to await a final release of your plugin when it is free of bugs and errors. While this plugin is awesome it should be tested before public release. It creates tables and dbasing that makes it virtually impossible for the novice user to delete. It starts a rename hazard.
Great work Sean and I look forward to a better release.
I have now totally deleted the plugin – Got the latest version and reinstalled. There seems to be no errors with the activation as before. HOWEVER, here is the latest problems.
1.) You cannot manually add a link from the WP Admin. If you do, it seems to go thru ok (in fact you are given a message that it has been added). Trouble is that the manually added link never appears in the directory and it doesn’t appear in the Admin to allow you to edit it.
2.) You can use the ADD URL function (as if you were a visitor). It adds the link, however if a subcategory was choosen it doesnt fall in as it should, instead it falls under the primary category.
3.) Once a URL has been added by a visitor, you cannot update or edit the link in the Admin. The UPDATE button and function is amiss of any command. It’s just a dummy.
4.) Generated emails about the adding of a new link return an invalid link; i.e. This is just a quick message to let you know that someone has added a link to your link directory on Just One Hot Minute …$1 (httpgorgeousboyscom$2).
Link Name: Tattoo Finder$3 (PR 4
$4)
Site URL: tattoofindercom5
You can edit or delete this link by logging into your admin section. You can turn off email updates by turning the Email Me option in the admin section.
As you can see the $ symbol appears.
I’m thinking that it may be best to await a final release of your plugin when it is free of bugs and errors. While this plugin is awesome it should be tested before public release. It creates tables and dbasing that makes it virtually impossible for the novice user to delete. It starts a rename hazard.
Great work Sean and I look forward to a better release.
Sean, I had the same issue as Maarten Wilbers did in reply #133. I deleted the plugin and reinstalled version 1.5, the original version I used, and now everything is happy,happy, happy. All my data is back. I just have to fill in the fields back on the admin page of WordPress Link Directory.
Before I edited the // on line 20 of link-directory.php I got these 2 errors. The first one was on the main links or category page and the other was on either Link To Us or Add URL.
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /xxxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1648
and
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /xxxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 962
Thanks again for the awesome plugin!!!!
First Thanks for the awesome plugin!!!!
hi…
i am getting this error …
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/onlineus/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 974
the plugin works fine ……
Thanks again for the awesome plugin!!!!
I did the automatic upgrade through the plugins panel and when I did that all of my existing links were deleted. The tables were wiped clean! Can you please make sure this doesn’t happen in future upgrades?
What’s the status of this plugin?
Hi, just installed with no issues, but in the Admin controls, under Edit Links, the plugin does not add any links when manually created from there. It only works when we add links from the front page, please help. Thanks.
To fix the insert by admin for a link:
line 874
mysql_query(“INSERT INTO $links_table VALUES(”,$name,$email,’$title’,'$url’,'$description’,”,’$category’,'$Rank’,”,’$now’,”,0,0)”);
should be
mysql_query(“INSERT INTO $links_table VALUES(”,’$name’,'$email’,'$title’,'$url’,'$description’,”,’$category’,'$Rank’,”,’$now’,”,0,0)”);
Simply get all the variables surrounded by quotes. I’m sure it’s just because the admin doesn’t have the name or email submission line and not quoting them messes up the insert…
Also Sean on line 86 you have:
mysql_query(“INSERT INTO $table_links VALUES (”,’$Name’,'$Email’,'$Title’,'$URL’,'$Description’,”,”,$Rank,”,$Now,”,0,1)”);
Which have the first letter capitalized. I would think for consistency you’d want those with the first letter ones all lower case – like down on line 874. Just a thought.
Thanks Sean, version 1.6.2 of plugin seems to be working perfectly so far. Just a quick note for you and others who may be having problems with the directory links not working properly…
WP-Supercache causes the Directory page to be cached and when you click links it just brings you back to cached version of the Directory page, and not the actual link destinations.
WP-Supercache PROBLEM SOLVED:
In the WP-Supercache Options page, scroll down to
“Accepted filenames, rejected URIs
Rejected URIs”
Add here a string that forces the Directory page not to be cached. For example, “/directory” without quotes. WP-Cache will search if that string is part of the URI and if so, it will not cache that page. Done. Then hit the “Delete Cache” button, and your Directory should work fine!
Thanks Sean, keep up the good work.
HI Sean this is a great plugin except for the error with not being able to add links from admin. Any chance of a fix soon. I am desperate to use it on one of my sites.
Also a couple of othe featur requests.
1. The ability to have only admin add links
2. Links to the other categories from each page instead of having to return to homepage every time.
Look forward to a fix soon.
PS couldn’t find the line of code at line 874 as suggested by Jason.
Correction: I am having same probs on 1.6.2 as Mark Wilson
http://www.seanbluestone.com/wp-link-directory#comment-5579
http://www.seanbluestone.com/wp-link-directory#comment-5580
reverting to 1.5 version, seems most stable
Sean, Looking forward to the next version. This last version crashed my Business Directory but I love your Link Directory so willing to wait for the fix. Thanks!!!
Quick update: I re-uploaded v1.6.2 with the correction that connects to the old tables so if you had the problem where your old links and categories were wiped this should sort that.
It also puts in place the correction Jason suggested, which enables you to add links again from the Add URL and admin sections.
@ Paul
I chose captchas.net over Recaptcha because it fits in better and doesn’t take up as much space, but in future updates I’ll probably offer both. I’m also experimenting with Akismet as an alternative which can test to see if entries are spam.
If anyone is still having problems let me know.
My fresh install of v1.6.2 upgraded to this new version still gives this error when I try to add a link: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6411
My other install (upgraded from v1.2) has lost it’s settings (no biggie) but the list links page is showing this error at the bottom:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 919
In both cases I disabled the plugin and reFTPed it up.
Hey Sean, well… still no go. Though the categories and settings are kept, the links are still gone after upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6.2. Downgrading again, and the links re-appear.
Uploaded newest version. Links reappear, but not in admin section. Also, cannot add or manage links in admin section.
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/ozarks/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1657
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/ozarks/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1676
Meant to say that I am getting the following error:
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/ozarks/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1657
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/ozarks/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1676
Hi !
I’ve still the same problem : Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in xxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1648
And I can’t diplay any of the categories.. ^^’
Same error for me after reinstalling the newest.
After adding a link inthe Admin I see this:
“We couldn’t open the URL you supplied but the link was added anyway. You may want to check it to ensure it exists.
Google Link Added”
The link is NOT listed anywhere.
Not in Edit Link in the Admin, not in the actual Link Category on the site
I just installed the reuploaded 1.6.2:
- still wiped out my links and categories
- still can’t update the links (demo link)
- still can’t post links in admin
didn’t retry anything else
Would really like to use this. Thank you.
Sean;
Is there a way to add fields. For instance, fields in the input form and to appear in the front end form?
Field1
field2
field3
(need a total of 12)
Thanks in advance
The plugin is great. It works with my site, here’s the link http://alternativefront.com/directory/
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in …../wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1648
i have just upgraded to v. 1.6.2
Can we change the url formating?
For example:
Not name: Free Music => url: Free+Music
But name: Free Music => url: Free-Music
So just to substitute the “+” with “-” on the url.
Thnx
Still having problems here too, as carla described above, also “Table ‘cherrycreek.wplinkdir_cats’ doesn’t exist.” Any recommened way to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
This plugin is perfect for the redesign of my website I’m working on. Thanks also to Jason for his fix so I could add links through the admin area.
One thing I have noticed though is that the Update button in the admin area (if you want to amend a link) doesn’t do anything. Is this by design (i.e., it’s not been coded yet) or a problem?
Once again, thanks
Just following up with the Plugin. Looking forward to a new release that solves all the aforementioned issues.
Any idea on when you may have a fully working script for the Links Directory ?
Beautifully conceived and elegantly coded. Very, very nice. Impressive addition. I was planning on hiring an expert to code something like this for me, and I am so glad I search for this plugin one more time. You’ve added a great number of features and the whole execution is just great.
The only feedback I have is either showing the number of characters allowed or allow for setting the number of characters allowed for each listings.
Thanks again. Where is the donation link??? You deserve some $$$
Jeff
Great plugin. i have had a few problems but it seems to be working Ok now on my OneToRemember blog. The only thing that i notoe is that not all the added links seem to show when they have been added? if you search they are there? maybe this is a cache issue on my browsers. However I have used two other browsers – firefox and safari – which I have not used since adding the plugin and i can only see three links – with IE – four links…. Am I a twit? Have I set something up wrong? Any help would be great. here is the link
http://onetoremember.co.uk/blog/link-directory/
I keep getting the error messages below. Any idea?
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/andreao/public_html/andreabiz/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1050
or
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/andreao/public_html/andreabiz/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1649
I tried adding a link on both URL’s mentione dabove but no success:
- The URL is invalid. Not sure what is invalid about it as it is up and running, but maybe it does not accept URL’s without www? But even with www, it does not accept…
There must be some kind of error in the newest version.
I got these message when trying to add links, also now categorys i add show up
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 963
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 975
Table ‘wp_wplinkdir_cats’ doesn’t exist
It seems when activate the plugin it does not add anything to the database.
Please fix this soon.
When I’m trying to add a link I get a massage:
The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.
Any idea ?
I have a “WordPress Link Directory” folder but no “wplinkdir” folder”. For the next release please rename “WordPress Link Directory” “wplinkdr”, or include a “wplinkdir” folder containing the files to be uploaded inside the “WordPress Link Directory” folder.
Well I also have same problem above they cannot recognized the new URl I am inputing
Any news Sean on all of the problems?
Has the plugin been deserted ? Just following up with the updates. Been a few days and WordPress 2.7 is just days away.
Hello again Sean,
I just wanted to follow up with you and say that I figured out which plugin was conflicting with yours. After going through each plugin I had installed It seems that it was Meta Robots WordPress plugin – http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/. After disabling it, yours worked just fine.
Cheers and thanks again.
Hello Sean,
thanks for releasing the Link Directory for WordPress!
BTW, there is some hickup with the Links page on your website.
I’ve just released version 1.7 which has, amongst other things:
Optional custom permalinks enabled allowing the user to set a base permalink structure if custom permalinks are enabled.
Ability to send new links to a moderation queue for approval or deletion.
Options menu cleaned up and categorized.
Nofollow option is now recognized when viewing detailed info about a link and on the search page.
Permalinks was the biggest thing I was working on, I’m quite happy to have them available. They’re not perfect and don’t work if you’re using only /%postname% as your permalink, but they’re still pretty useful.
If anyone is still having errors or issues let me know and I’ll do my best to help out.
How does not delete and start all over? I can’t get the directory to work. Even with the update, I cannot add links nor can I edit existing links. I didn’t have many to begin with, so is there a way to clean up and start again?
If you uncomment line number 79:
// register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, ‘wplinkdir_uninstall’);
..then deactivate the plugin, everything will be removed and you can start from scratch.
I’m very pleased that you added this approval feature. This is what I was quietly waiting for. Thanks!
I just tried the new version. The php and sql errors seem to be gone for my part. Unfortunately it won’t let be add entries from the frontend. It keeps saying that the entered URL is not valid and does nothing.
Since I removed your default entry in the backend it won’t even let me enter links in the backend. No error message and no entry.
Again I had to switch the plugin off… too bad.
The German translation file still has some issues. I will have to check it, as soon as I can leave the plugin switched on.
I did the upgrade and hit a small snag. I have an existing database but I end up with just the example data as my link database and not the original. This is because the tables were renamed from wplinkdir_cats to wp_wplinkdir_cats and wplinkdir_links to wp_linkdir_links. Since the structure changed doing this makes sense – especially to get them named like other wp tables. This is more of a heads up for people.
Also
Line 1833 and 1835 has an extra echo. The one from 1835 pops up yxz on the sub pages. I just took out the echo’s there to get rid of it.
I haven’t gotten permalinks working yet but that could easily be just my setup. I keep getting sent back to the front page.
Thanks!
WOW… Where is your tip jar link?! I was waiting for your update – skipped the other directory plugins hoping and man you came through BIG.
Used auto-update while plugin was deactivated:
1) updated with all catgeories and entries intact
2) Can edit all entries from admin
3) Can enter new entries from admin
4) LOVE the approve (I was going to edit out the add url link until you added this!)
All has been flawless this go’round. The update was fast and righteous. Worthy of $’s – THANK YOU
Sean, very nice job! One question: how come permalinks don’t work if you only use /%postname%? That’s what I use.
Hmm, the links are not visible at the frontend, but if I use the search function the link comes up. Any hints how to debug?
I was looking for a link directory which would fit the blog and yours work perfect. Just wanted to say thanks!!
Many thanks Sean for releasing another version. I was beginning to wonder if your were returning to your project after a few days we didn’t hear from you.
I took your advise and removed the comments and started from scratch. I was successful in getting the new version installed without any fatal errors and got a fresh start.
However I have several bugs, hopefully you can resolve the issues. I’ll outline them by number below.
First, I think I can speak for the group as well when I say this. We appreciate your work. I know I certainly do! Your directory far exceeds the other few link directories available here in he extended plugins of WordPress. I for one will be more than happy to pitch in a donation for your work. Please post and let us know how we can be of help.
1.) The system automatically generates an email that is sent when someone sends up a link. That email however when it arrives provides extra characters in the template.
Example: Link Name: Bright Lights Film Journal $3 (PR 6
$4)
Site URL: http://brightlightsfilm.com$5
As you can see it contains additional info that make the link invalid when clicked on. Can we fix that ?
2.) Previously you had mentioned that you can remove the LIMIT 3 if you wish to show more than 3 subcategories. I attempted to find that line again, but wasn’t successful. I only found LIMIT 30. Can you advise in detail how to offer up that function again ?
3.) After creating 3 or more sub-catergories I’m seeing
very small abc remarks before the sub-catergory. Not sure what those are, but can we remove them ? Kinda wierd.
4.) When you venture to see a link “more info” – you come to the webshot and info. It displays the catergory. The catergory is hotlinked, however if you click that link it redirects you to the homepage as opposed to the catergory page. Can you advise ?
5.) If you go to edit a link, and you attempt to change the category of the link the update button doesnt seem to control that line. As you know there is a table with 2 rows. The only option is to delete the link and start anew. There is only a delete button available on row 1 of that table – the update button in row 2 doesn’t update records in the row 1 of the link’s table. Can you advise ?
6.) WP 2.7 is almost ready for release as you probally may be aware. Will your Link directory be ok with that new release? I’m reading about about the contribution of a component built in known as ze-list directory.
Many many thanks Sean for your plugin and taking the time to develop this. I really like your directory and again let us know how we may help you by posting. I for one will do and I’m sure others would be more than happy to make a donation for your efforts.
When you active the latest or the previous version [image] and [gallery] tags don’t work anymore.
Permlinks:
++shame that we can’t use ‘/%postname%’ (in my case I’m using /%postname%-3%post_id%.html which is close enough to break it). Looks like I’ll be sticking to querystrings for a while.
There seems to be a minor logic bug when you enable Permlinks: the ‘Home’ link takes you to the Permlink page, which may be different to the page name that you put [ wplinkdir directory ] on.
Other Bugs:
Links are displayed automaticly when “Require Approval?” is set to A even when the admin page says they are “Pending”
Debugging code still on line 1942 & 1944
The flag link does nothing, the querystring looks malformed
Suggestions:
Indicate which fields in the “add link” page are required and which optional.
Make “Flag” link “Nofollow” so that search engines don’t trigger
When in a subcategory show a link to the parent category.
More bugs:
Delete categories has lost it’s “Are you sure” popup.
The uninstall option leaves some variables behind in the wp_options table (including: orderby, target, tagged, flagged, show_description, show_byline)
And some more:
If you use a double quote in the ‘Website Title’, the plug-in adds a backslash in the admin page after saving it, subsequent saves add yet more backslashes. When the ‘Website Title’ is displayed in the “More details” page for the link the backslashes are also displayed.
Suggestion:
The Description is limited to 250chars and some of mine are being truncated. What do we think about increasing the size of the field?
I’m also dropping some affiliate deep links into the directory, they are over 150chars long. What do we think about truncating the displayed URL a bit?
Im not able to use the plugin?
it just let’s me go back to the frontpage each time I try to click on anything.
Example here
http://www.casecritics.com/2008/11/test/
Still can’t figure out permalinks. That would be nice to get working. I’m using the default setting “links” but that’s also the name of my links page to start with. I’m using the example permalinks for mysite too. It just returns to the main page on each click.
Also here’s something I did with my site. I thought wouldn’t it be nice if the sub categories looked like the main page so I added that in.
Here’s an example.
http://wkrp.com/links?cat=Internet
Here’s what I did:
http://wkrp.com/projects/link-directory-categories
I hope that makes sense.
What do you all think about that mod?
Thanks Sean, the upgrade restored my database but I cant edit the entries, I get a message at the bottom,
Edit Links
Unknown column ‘tagged’ in ‘where clause’
Any ideas?
Thanks!!!
Same here,
Unknown column ‘tagged’ in ‘where clause’
Also, when adding a link through the site (not the admin), I’m getting
“The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.”
Even though I used the google.com url for the URL.
Uninstalling
OK, new problem. When I try to submit a link using the Add URL form, I get the following error message:
“Every CAPTCHA can only be used once. The current CAPTCHA has already been used. Please click back, refresh the page and try again.”
Following those instructions, reloading the page, then resubmitting just brings me back to the same error page.
- I have installed v. 1.7 of the plugin.
- I have it set to require my approval of submitted links.
- I have the same problem using Firefox 3.0.3 and Safari 3.1.2 on a Mac.
- Same problem both logged in and logged out of WordPress.
And just to add, turning off the CAPTCHA option brings a new problem. I submitted another link, a blogspot blog, and got the following error message:
Your site (http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com$1) is already in our directory in the About Women Scientists$2 category.
- The $1 and $2 were part of the error message
- There is only one link actually in the directory at the moment, in the directory specified.
- The other link that is already in the director is also a blog hosted at blogspot.com
Is this a feature of the “duplicate site” checking mechanism? If so, is there a way to disable it – I was planning to include a number of different blogs hosted on free sites like blogspot.com and wordpress.com.
no probs with the plug in… simply fantastic… anyone wanna trade linkage come to fluffandco.com… you all know how to do it my fellow webmasters!
BUG REPORT
There is a problem with RTL languages (hebrew & arabic). The URL of the category is not working properly (presents jibrish – and gives back a broken link).
It’s a known problem in non-english languages, to solve it you need to add SLUG to all the categories, this way we can define a name in one language and a slug in english language.
Forget the BUG REPORT, it can be fixed by tweaking the “Other_Options->Permalinks”.
BUG:
Snazzy Archives – dont work if I activate the WO Link Dir…
This plugin use tag [snazzy archives].
Even though I get an affirmative remark, the link does not get added.
“Your link (The Boardroom at Cherry Creek) has been added successfully, thanks!”
Hey again everyone: v1.7.1 just released which fixes most, if not all, of the problems mentioned above:
Themes/Styles added. Style (.css) files can be added and selected from the admin section.
Some messages fixed where they wouldn’t display variables correctly.
Pending links are now not displayed in the front end.
Flagging function fixed. Flag links are now nofollow.
Added option to limit description size on Add URL page.
@ Ute and Thomas
I would recommend uncommenting line 79:
// register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, ‘wplinkdir_uninstall’);
Then deactivating the plugin. After reactivation it should work fine. Unfortunately though, this means you would lose your links and have to enter them again.
@ Jason
Cheers, this was leftover from testing.
@ Dave
I’m not entirely sure but I think if you’re only using %postname% as your permalink then WordPress interprets /links (for example) as a post and for some reason sends you back to your front page.
@ Mark
Cheers for your comments, I appreciate it.
1. Fixed in the new version.
2. Line 1923 controls this and has the LIMIT 3 text. If you edit/remove this you should be sorted.
3. This was leftover testing text, fixed.
4. I think I’ve fixed this now but unfortunately I can’t really test it anywhere else, let me know if it’s still an issue.
5. I’m not 100% sure on what you mean here, and I couldn’t duplicate the error, it seems to work fine for me. Again, if it’s still an issue let me know.
6. I haven’t read much about WP 2.7 but I believe there’s a rehaul of how permalinks work and so I may need to update this and some other things. Or if ze-list is good enough perhaps my plugin will become altogether useless. But I’ll worry about these things when they come =]
@ Chuck
Thanks, pointed out some really useful bugs. They should all be fixed in 1.7.1. The flagging links are also nofollow now and I added a description size limiter (it’s only enforced by javascript and can be bypassed, but for all intense purposes it does the job).
@ Marien
I’m not sure what’s causing this. Have you tried setting the Permalink option to a blank value?
@ Jason
That’s a pretty sweet mod, not sure why I didn’t do this to start off with. I’ll add this into future versions, if that’s cool with you?
I don’t have any tips on the permalinks, I’m still learning about them as I go and they seem to change depending on the permalink structure used, the apache model and various other things. In short they’re a nightmare.
@ Brian & Busterm
I’m not sure why the tagged column hasn’t been included, I can only assume you were upgrading from an older version and it’s failed to do it correctly. The uninstall method above should sort this out.
Also @ Busterm, the link directory tries to fopen the URL supplied, if it can’t (this could be because the URL doesn’t exist, or your server can’t open for some reason) then it returns that message.
@ Peggy
I don’t have any advice on the CAPTCHA issue unfortunately, I can’t duplicate this error and so I assume PHP is set up on your server in such a way that the captcha validation doesn’t work. I’m working on implementing recaptcha.com instead of captchas.net which should at least offer an alternative.
Your other problem was indeed part of the duplicate link checking code. I’ve added a new option to allow or disallow multiple links from the same domain which should solve this.
To Tavik and those who mentioned snazzy archives, I’ll add an option to turn off shortcodes in the next update. This should nullify any conflict with WordPress Link Directory and other plugins.
@ Brian
Have you upgraded from an older version? If so I’d suggest following the uninstall method mentioned above.
To everyone: Again, thanks for your bug reports and comments, I appreciate them. A few of you also mentioned donations and I’d be happy to receive them. I’ve added the Buy Sean a Coffee page for this purpose.
Cheers!
http://www.oliviainteriordesign.com/interior-design-link-directory/
I’m having problems that, I guess, are being caused by Permalinks or some other URL rewriting plugin/feature. There is NO /links/ directory, something that this plug seems to be looking for, and in my page above all links, when clicked, lead back to the home page or a “post not found” error message.
Any ideas what I’ve done wrong? Thanks in advance, Sean
I’m cool with the sub categories being added. The code used is basically yours just moved around anyway. I’m thinking the column count probably should just be equal to the same column count as the main categories instead of my hard coding. Either that or a seperate definable option.
Alohaa…
i want say thx for the plug-in, now i can use this plug in on my blog, just klik my blog for anyone to submit blog link
before it work i must change some code on file link-directory.php . Now the plug in is working 100% no erorr again
BolaNaga
v1.7.1 Bugs:
- the css to display the PR rank is broken, only text displayed
- flag links don’t seem to do anything, when you click on them the page refreshes and nothing changes in the admin page
- something’s up with the code used to display the FLAG link, each new link on the page has an extra <a rel=” before it.
- notification emails still has $1/$2/$3 and now is displaying /n rather than new lines.
Otherwise coming together nicely, enjoy your coffee.
Hi there, nice plugin, but is it possible to link on more categories when register? (mod / addon)
thanks in advance
Amazing Script! Thanks for writing this, its the best of its kind hands down. Three issues I noticed, and several others havel:
1. The emails it sends you to notify you have $1/$2/$3 characters attached to the URL and will not link you to the site correctly as a result.
2. When you select option A to hold the links in a Que, that does not work, the sites automatically go live on my site. And we do not want them to go live when selecting option A. We would prefer that go into permanet holding until we approve them.
3. The PR image is gone now, only the text shows.
Keep up the great work man!
Quick update: Version 1.7.2 just released which fixes a few things:
Further problems with flagging fixed.
All display variables (problems with double quotes in sprintf) fixed.
Approval option checking when adding links fixed.
Sub-categories are now displayed similarly to parent categories (in panels).
@ Sean
If you enter any text in the Permalinks option on the main option page, it will use this as a base for permalinks. Simply leave it blank to use the alternative ?get variables (which are slightly ugly but do the job).
@ Jason
Cheers, added it to the new version, it uses the categories per row option.
@ Chuck
These should all be fixed, save the Style problem. I’m not sure what’s caused this, unless you upgraded and it didn’t adopt a value. Simply changing to the other style file (blues.css) then back again should solve this though. If not let me know.
And thank you for the donation, muchly appreciated =]
@ Michael
Do you mean adding the ability to display more categories to people who are registered with your site? If so, this is certainly possible but not something I’ll be adding any time soon. Sorry.
@ Christian
Thanks, these issues should all be fixed save the style issue. The method mentioned above should sort you out.
YOU SAY: “The simplest way to upgrade is to simply deactivate the plugin, upload the new files to the plugin directory, then reactivate.”
BUT when i deactivate the plug in and reactivate it, all the data delated.
Hi, great plugin – I been using WordPress Link Directory before yet never been real happy with it and the “external” file directory etc. as well it does not work well on ALL templates.
Found this plugin yesterday and installed, no problems.
Only hicup I found is that if I go to add page there is some code on the describtion box as well all the captcha and submit buttom are missin. Any hint on that would be nice.
Hey Sean!
I can’t seem to get WPLD to work properly. Version 1.7.2 still won’t let me add links in the frontend and I can’t find any .css to choose from. Starting to feel a little stupid.
Can you specify what needs to be done for a complete clean up? I already tried the hook thing without any effect. What database tables need to be removed or cleaned in order to start new?
TIA
Ute
@ rami
Line 77 controls what happens when the plugin is deactivated.
//register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, ‘wplinkdir_uninstall’);
If you leave the comments in it wont do anything, if you remove them then the uninstall function will be ran (deleting all the links). I may have accidentally left this line uncommented in v1.7.1 which I have now corrected and apologize for.
@ Oilburner
The rest of the page after the Description is being put in the textbox. I’m not sure why this happens with your blog but nobody elses. Simply leaving the Description Size option blank should solve this.
@ Ute
The two tables are wp_wplinkdir_cats and wp_wplinkdir_cats (wp_ will change depending on your install). If you remove these then remove all wplinkdir options in the wp_options table (you can do this using phpmyadmin by doing “DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE ‘wplinkdir%’”) then you should be able to reactivate the plugin without any conflict. I’m not too sure about the css files, though there have been another couple of reports about them not being available, so I’m obviously missing something. Hope this helps.
Just installed your plugin and all looks pretty good. I don’t see any styles in the drop down or a style folder that you mention. Displays fine though on the page. Only thing I could suggest would be a “List All” feature or that the list of links are displayed on the page by default or a certain number of them. Maybe under what you display now. Nice as it is though and will probably put it to use. Thanks!!
Turns out the styles folder was omitted when I uploaded the last version. I’ve added it now.
I put the styles folder up but still don’t see anything in the drop down. Even de-activated and re-activated the plugin. Still poking around but thanks for such a quick response.
Also if you are saying that
[wplinkdir catagory="Services"]
should display the list of links in the Services catagory that doesn’t seem to happen for me. I just get the same as with no catagory=”Services”. Just the menu and the list of catagories. As for the styles, the display did change but still no drop down choices to select. It is up and we are working with it.
http://theatcotowncrier.com/recommended-websites/
Sean I upgraded to your newest version. 1.7.2.
Now it all new batch of problems.
1.) I’m getting an error message in the WP Link Directory under the Edit Links area. The error messages:
Warning: wplinkdir_styling(/home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/) [function.wplinkdir-styling]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
Warning: wplinkdir_styling() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
2.) I’m now getting error message in my theme’s header – Warning: wplinkdir_styling(/home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/) [function.wplinkdir-styling]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
Warning: wplinkdir_styling() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /home/video53/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
3.) The Page Rank icon/graphic is missing and is no loner available. Instead it’s just plain text “PR 4″
4.) When you go to the details about a link (the post where the webshot graphic appears) if you click on the link you’ve made available for the link’s category. That linked category returns the user to the index.php (home page) of the blog as opposed to taking you tothe catergory page listing as it should.
5.) Before this new version my link directory’s home page showed a very nice table. Those table have now disappeared and are no longer there. Instead it’s just all text aligned and makes it impossible for a user to discern what is what.
CON’T BUGS
6.) The email being sent still contains the dollar symbol and a digits which make the link useless.
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At this point Sean I have deleted the STYLE files in your update. By doing this I got rid of the errors. So is it possbile I can stay away from styles and get borders back around the categories and restore the Page Rank icon ? I basically deleted those files so I can con’t to allow access to the directory pending repairs – otherwise I would had to deactivate until a fix comes along.
I am working on a side project and I have decided to use this plug-in. I also had the line 394 error. I am not so much concerned about it.
I am more here to say that this is a great plug-in and I had some perhaps suggestions for possible future versions:
1. A WP Link Directory that includes being able to giving a rating (1 of 5 stars for example) and the ability for a person to leave a short comment/ review.
2. Allow this to tie into a way that the script when the person submits, they can register to the blog/ link directory. The admin would allow them to edit their link… Something to that concern.
3. tie it in with a topsite?
It was just a “fly by the pants” kind of idea. I am just tired of downloading aadvark and link directory scripts that are too bulky and get spammed easily.
That and the fact once a person understands WordPress, the plug-ins are a blessing.
v1.7.2 issues:
- After you flag a post &flag=1 is added to the “Home”, “Add URL” and “Link To Us” links on that page. Would also be nice to have a confirmation message displayed after a link is flagged just so that the flagger knows something happened.
- Similar to Mark Wilson after I flag a link then click on more info, I get a 404 error. Seems the link contains a &id=1 rather than a ?id-1
- The style drop down is still empty for me. Seems your code is looking for the .css files in ../wp-content/plugins/link-directory/styles when it’s in ../wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles
- PR grafic works for me.
- no header errors
Sean, feature request: How about adding a bubble in the admin page when there is a new link to be authorised? (Like you get when you have a comment to be authorised)
Here’s the code for it here: .
There is no need for it, but it would look pretty cool IMHO :O)
Bad WP gobbled my link:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172268
All i am getting is this on my blog when activating the plugin,
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
How to get rid of it?
@Erik: The error says that ‘/home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/’ does not exist. Can you double check to see if the folder is there. Check to make sure the folder is in the version you downloaded as it was missing from an earlier one.
@Sean: Any ideas why shortcodes I need to use in another plugin stop being parsed and are just displayed on screen when I have your plugin enabled? The other plugin is MyAdManager (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/myadmanager/) the shortcode in question is: [myadmanager_show_form]
ChuckMcB: Yes the style folder is there.
I am getting the same error today about style folder that Erik is.
Can you please give some information on how to setup the permalinks? They seem to be blocking the links from being posted.
This plugin is great! Just one little issue…whenever I put anything in the “permalinks” area in the directory options it makes the links not work. The plug in only works with the ?cat= structure which is not very SEO friendly and they won’t be seen as separate pages. I have the All In One SEO plugin activated also…maybe they interfere with each other? please help. thanks
Great plugin, for the most part! I’m having issues in 2.7 (not sure if you’ve started testing yet) saving the settings. WP loads options.php then back to to the settings page with nothing changed.
Permalinks aren’t working right either but that’s likely my theme. Looking forward to updates!
@Erik & @Patrick: Try this: can you make sure there are two files in there. Then go to the admin page make sure you select the original.css in the style drop down and select save.
Chuck: The style dropdown is not populated on admin page for link directory? I checked via ftp and all folders and files are there and have correct names – same as downloaded files. Could it be a permissions problem – I can go straight to the file via browser no problem.
Thanks
I’m having the same problem as Molly.
This program somehow does something to the permalinks. It doesn’t play nicely with them.
Has this issue been addresses? I mean where is the changelog or the update log for the program.
BTW – when I had it activated, this program was great. I loved it. Looking for to having it work again.
Thanks,
Jeff
@Patrick: yea, looks like a permissions thing, try dropping the folder down to 777 as a test.
@jeff: THere is a changelog.txt in the .zip file. But if you skim this post and look for Sean’s comments in yellow, you will see that he said: “Permalinks was the biggest thing I was working on, I’m quite happy to have them available. They’re not perfect and don’t work if you’re using only /%postname% as your permalink, but they’re still pretty useful”.
For the guys having the styles error you can I did this just delete the styles folder all together and the error will go.
This plugin is excellent but i am having the same problem as ChuckMcB with the shortcodes. I use a lot of captions with my images but now they display like [caption etc......] on my posts.
Yes, that’s what I did with my site http://www.alternativefront.com and the directory is ok now.
Feature request: I would like to drop some affiliate links into my directory. When I do so it (naturally) shows the screenshot of the affiliate company rather than the company the link goes to.
Would this be useful for anyone else? Any ideas how we could show a screenshot from one site but the link actually go to another?
ChuckMcB, Much like yourself I have a series of links that are affiliate links. I too would like to have a fix on that issue as well. I use linkshare and commission junction for lots of my stuff.
It would also be awesome if the thumbnail (webshot) would be hyperlinked to the link’s url as well. Pictures always say a thousand words.
Another Feature Request:
A paging system.
After “x” number of links create a new page. It just goes on and on and on … you get my point.
Other then that it’s a great plugin!
No i have got the directory to work, but now no one can submit link, all they got is this.
The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.
And the url:s are valid.
How to fix this error fast?
@Erik: have you tried disabling Reciprocal linking?
Chuck: No i havent, will try that when i get home from work. But thats what i want, that people need to link to me in order to get there link in the directory.
I hope that Sean soon will provide a version that works in all parts.
Chuck: I dosent work even when disable it.
damn, can’t post my reply….comment broken at 250?
Thanks for checking, it helps to see if it is a problem with the Reciprocal linking code. So now we know it’s not that.
The bit of the plugin that displays that error uses “fopen” to see if the web site is online. Perhaps your host does not allow you to use “fopen”?
I will check with the hosting and get back.
k (can’t finish my reply because the comment spam blocker keeps kicking in)
My hosting dont support this since the changed to php5.
When php6 comes there will be no support what so ever for this, so i would suggest Sean to maybe look at other possibles in the coding instead of the fopen.
Well thats bad i can use this plugin.
Good luck everyone else with this plugin in the future.
Chuck,
I read about the peramlink structure before. And I made sure that my default:
/%category%/%postname%/
is in place, but still . .
1. If I do setup permalinks that way, do I then leave the Permalink option in the plugin Blank? To me it isn’t entirely clear what I am to do there.
2. On another issue, I get this error now, even after I delelted the styles in the plugin directory?:
Warning: wplinkdir_styling(/homepages/45/d169860771/htdocs/ParaLegal/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/) [function.wplinkdir-styling]: failed to open stream: Success in /homepages/45/d169860771/htdocs/ParaLegal/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
hello:
Just installed your plugin but the home/add url, etc links does not work.????
Early morning update: Just updated to version 1.7.3 which fixes a few things including:
* Number of pending links added to menu.
* Style File selection fixed to be independent of platform.
* Some linking issues fixed including flagging and subcategory linking.
* The emails FINALLY no longer contain the dollar symbols.
Chuck nailed it and figured out that the issue everyone was having with the style files was down to the selection menu looking for /link-directory/ instead of /wordpress-link-directory/. It’s fixed now and it doesn’t matter what folder you put the files in.
@ Niles
Some good suggestions here, I have some other stuff to work on for the next couple of updates but I’ll definitely attempt some of these.
@ Chuck
Sweet suggestion. I think the spans only work in the side menu (Settings, Plugins & Users) so I did something similar but not quite as good looking.
On the shortcodes question, a bunch of people have had problems with shortcodes and I’m not sure why. I added a blurb in the Readme file to answer this question, basically saying to try turning off Tagged Links. If that doesn’t work I have to be honest and say I don’t know.
@Chuck & Mark on the affiliate thumbnails question, the thumbnails are really mailable and will take any URL you supply then with. I’d look at line 1709 and add something like:
if(strpos($Info['url'],’youraffiliatesite.com’)){
$ScreenshotSRC=’http://open.thumbshots.org/image.aspx?url=’.$NewURL;
}
Where $NewURL would be the URL of the affiliate link. I’m not sure how you’d obtain this though, unless the affiliate company supplies a list of URLs or something like that.
@ Cruz
That’s planned for next update.
@ Erik
fopen is supported in all versions of PHP, I think instead that the problem is probably the site is in a “window” or shell or behind some other gimmick. WPLD has problems confirming these kinds of sites. If that isn’t the issue then I’m not sure, do you get the same problem when trying to add links through the admin section?
@ Jeff
If you use %postname% as a permalink structure, permalinks wont work with WPLD and you should leave it blank, with %postname%/%category% you should be fine and you can put whatever you want in there.
Regards
It is a shame that there is no solution to the shortcodes problem. I will keep an eye on this plugin and hopefully a solution will be found so i can use this excellent plugin.
I have gotten the permalinks to “work” however when you click on a link, instead of displaying the info in my directory it displays posts from the home page. My custome permalinks are set use /%category%/%postname%
Any advice? You can see an example of what i’m seeing here http://www.dancewearballet.com/directory
Great plugin update but it seems the Description Size option is not working. I want mine to have no limit at all but it still limits the description size.
My site is http://www.alternativefront.com
Permalinks problem
I tried to have the link dir as the default page on my site phptemplates.net, but the structure dident work, so i moved it to a page and all the permalinks works fine (at least for know;)
Aaanyway, just wanted to say really nice work
Fred
Just installed the plugin. looks sweet. But I’m running into the same permalinks issue a lot of others are seeing. I’m using /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
for my permalink path.
The site is http://www.benway.net
I’ll monitor the comments here to see if your able to figure this out or need more information.
Thanks,jb
The new version didnt work for me. i keep using the old one.
Any feauture for email notification upon new link submission on new version?
I think its great!
WPLD still refuses to accept links from the frontend. Same problem as Eric above. Keeps saying that the URL is not valid… even when I try to add Google.
I copied the “else” code from the backend fopen check to see what happens. I get a “Your site () is already in our directory in the Blogs & Blogging category.” message then. No entries from the frontend ever show up in the backends edit links section though.
Adding links from the backend does work.
Thank you for considering my suggestions. Also, thanks for the update on the wp link directory.
I went ahead and subscribed to your feeds. I have been enjoying the SEO articles and such. You are a “fountain of knowledge.”
I am going give a kudo blog to you on my personal site. I think others could benefit from some of your information….and the WPLD plug-in amongst other things.
Some lady at the hardware store said that to me about paint choices when she asked me for my opinion…lol
Hey Sean, Have you not received the Dutch translation tables I sent you a few weeks ago, because they’re not included yet.
hi, I am totally new for your plugin, but I really really like it. I also have tried to translate the pot file into Japanese. the file is pretty much there, but I have no idea how I can proceed any further. Like you said within the comment, I created the file with Poedit, but I have no idea what to do with it. It created po and mo file, and it even gives me a message a fatal error occured while I am saving it. Can any1 give an advise, so I can use it in my own language, please?
To note, WP Link Directory no longer conflicts with Snazzy (the visual archive plugin).
Hi, is there a way for me to assign a link to more than one category? Without having to add the link twice. Like the way it’s done in the normal WP link manager.
Thx in advance for your help!
Good plugin but still is not clickable. I guess I will shut it down from my site.
Sean,
I love what you’ve done….so much so that it inspired me to take it a step further. I created a theme that utilizes WP built-in features to create a link directory. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Hey everyone, I have now created a pro version of WordPress Link Directory to try and capitalize a little on the success of the plugin. WordPress Link Directory Pro adds a few features including:
* Accept payments for Premium Links which are displayed higher and can be styled differently.
* Count Hits In and Out for all sites.
* Email submitters when/if their site is approved.
Since the script is brand new and needs to be tested, I figured I’d offer it for free to start off with. It’s available from this page.
Note that you will have to fill in a survey before you are given access to download it. This is because I’m also testing out a system called CPALeads. I figured it was a good trade: I get to test CPALeads and my Link Directory Pro version and you get a copy for free – Enjoy!
@ Danymaz
I had a brainwave moments after releasing the last version and was actually able to fix the shortcodes problem. Simply download the newest version again and replace the files and you should be fine.
@ Molly
I had this problem on my own directory for a while and one fix that seems to work is to create a post instead of a page and put your directory in there. Unfortunately your directory will show up for that post, but it’s an option.
@ Jomark
As far as I can see there is no description limit. Seems you got this fixed?
@ benwaynet
Try the method I mentioned above, otherwise I don’t have a solution, sorry.
@ Ute
It sounds like it’s finding a link in your directory that matches part of the site you’re trying to add. So if you’re adding http://www.google.com, for example, it will search for google.com. Therefor if you have a link like http://links.google.com it will refuse the new link. You can get round this by changing the Multiple Links From Same Domain? option to Yes.
You could also try doing a complete uninstall and reinstall by uncommenting line 79 and deactivating the plugin.
@ Nile
Cheers, I appreciate your comments. I look forward to your post too. I read over your site and you have some good stuff there too.
@ Maarten
I’d actually forgotten to add them in 1.7.2 but I’ve added them now and they’ll be in all future versions. Cheers for the reminder, and the translation file!
@ Minoru Nitta
After you have created the .mo and .po files you should copy the .mo file into the main wordpress-link-directory directory as wplinkdir-lang-COUNTRY.mo so in your case I think it would be wplinkdir-ja-JP.mo (check the readme.txt file in the /lang directory for more info and links). Hope you get it working.
@ Sigrid
Not yet, but this is a good suggestion and I’ll try to add it in the next version.
@ Patrick
That’s absolutely awesome, I’m very impressed. Your demo site was offline but I downloaded it and gave it a go and I love how it looks. There are a couple of issues with permalinks but without diving into your code I can’t say whether that’s your themes fault or my scripts fault. It looks killer though, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
Cheers everyone!
Can we upgrade from 1.7.x to the pro version and keep out links or has it some major changes that would cause backward compatibility?
@Sean Thx! When will the new version be ready?
No rush….
Sean,
Thanks fro the comment, and I have got it working half way. Some of the text on the submitting screen came up in japanese, but nothing happening within the ControPanel. Any ideas? Cheers.
At editing or updating of the link there is a reset of a category up to the first?
Hi Sean, all was going swimmingly till I got a link request. it sent me an email saying you have a new link. when checking the site i found:
Warning: include_once(/home/ftscom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/styles/) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/ftscom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 394
at the top of the page.
Upgraded to 1.7.3 still the same.
The disturbing thing is it breaks the homepage as well so I have had to turn it off.
Thought I would try out the Pro version, but your CPA leads thing sucks. wasted 15 minutes filling out about 3 forms and the page never unlocks.
You would be better of with an ad supported trial version, as I just got frustrated and am less inclined to buy it now. (Just giving some honest feedback)
Thanks
Peter
How i list last added 10 links with category on sidebar ?
Excellent! Short codes now work.
http://themallorca.net/links/
Hi Sean, the plugin still doesn’t even save settings in 2.7. I’ve been working with 2.7 for a while now and the rest of the plugin seemed to work just fine (adding links, categories, etc.).
how can I do to receive email in addition to link the category?
Is there anyway that I can insert all my existing links from the standard wordpress link table into the wordpress link directory, I have 100s and to do it manually would be a real pain.
Thanks?
Hi Sean,
That CPA thing totally sucks, please take it off.
Basically it asks to spam you and you cannot enter any of the options (so you cannot test your plugin) if you are not a US citizen.
Are you making Link directory US only? I surely hope not, goes against the Open source thought methinks…
As I see many bug reports, I propose these get fixed first. Then you can charge for the plugin as you want, but on a normal way (i.e. no CPA mess)?
Cheers,
Harry
Unfortunately your plug-in is not W3C friendly
Could you fix this bugs?
from the sound of it this PI doesn’t play well with WP 2.7 and there are a lot of random bugs, which I don’t understand since this plug-in seems to be one which can be fairly independent of other WP features.
That said, I would pay $10-20 for this plugin, but not sure how you can release a PRO version when a basic version seems to have so many issues.
in the email that I get when someone signs up, in addition to knowing the site, let me know also the category where he placed the site. how do I do?
Your plugin has great potential, Sean.
I want to echo a few sentiments from above and suggest that you wait for a short while until you have a stable product and then start charging for it. I paid for phpld and I would pay for yours and switch over if I felt 100% confident that it would go smoothly. There are a lot of us who want to see a stable, supported WordPress-based product and will be willing to pay for it.
That being said, I am impressed by your apparent level of commitment to supporting this product so far. I think it would be wonderful if you did a quick install of bbpress and started offering a support forum. I bet it would make things a whole lot easier for you to handle, and I’ll wager it would greatly increase your page views and interest in WP Link Directory.
I offer my unsolicited advice only because I am so enthusiastic about your work and look forward to seeing you improve upon an already good idea.
I installed your plugin – the pro version you offer after that sign-up – and all went fine however, when I add manula links to populate the directory some they are not showing. Any pointers where to start searching and tweaking??
Thanks, great plugin, use it on another blog (normal version) works just fine. Same server same config minus the theme of course.
Never mind my comment above.
I un-installed the Pro version and installed the regular on and all is cool.
I have to state – your plugin is killer – going to your pro-version page sucks with that sign-up deal.
I tried to install the normal and the pro versions, and when I activate the plugin shows me a message:
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/cancun01/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WordPress-Link-Directory-Pro/link-directory.php on line 449
I think your plugin its great, but I dont know what this means, can you help me with this problem…??
thank you any help!!
http://www.cancunforos.com
hey,
everytime i have the plugin active i get the error msg “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /mounted-storage/home37c/sub005/sc30325-WTGS/andy.ie/wp-includes/kses.php(398) : regexp code on line 1″ which doesnt allow me into my plugins section. even with the new release this problem still occurs. I stops when i delete your plugin.
Just thought I’d let you know the survey(s) to get the Pro version do not work. I tried two of them. I get to their web sites but no survey (just a web site) and buttons don’t work to continue.
Same here… Sean, don’t let this beautiful project of yours die like this! Try to find another way of monetizing your scripts, but this sucks!
Just for the gratitude I have for your script:
I wish to share with you people that the problem the nicole described can be solved also in case you are using the “google analytics” plugin. of yoast:
http://yoast.com/wordpress/analytics/
just by turning it off
”
Seems that I receive a fatal error when trying to update the configuration settings on the main WP Link Directory page.
Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/opteye/public_html/wp-admin/options.php on line 23.
I am using WordPress Version 2.6.5…
”
I hope the best for your plugin, it does a graet job.
I only wish it could be linked with the feedwordpress plugin:
http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress
p.s: a suggestion for your comment system – add “subscribe to comments” in the comment form for us followers.
Cheers,
Tal
to all of you who are getting the error:
“Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid …”
it might be because your title of a category has: apostrophe ‘ in it.
Hi Sean,
What would it take to get permalinks to work?
Money (how much)?
Support (who from)?
For SEO reasons, I (we all) have an interest in using this with permalinks working rather than $_GET vars.
Please let me know if it just a matter of funds or is it just not possible.
Thanks,
Jay
Another bug report:
I try setting different limits on description lengths (700, and blank) – and it keeps the limit to something else.
Thanks,
Tal
All the time when i activate wp link directory on my VPS it make MySQL to run crazy and eat up memory.
I did some custom changes and got Permalinks to work. Not a big issue really, but i have to run this script some time to see if everything is ok with my custom changes before i give it away.
Hi there my friend.
Thanks a bunch for this GREAT plugin. It has just saved my life. Can I pay you a coffee? hehe
I desperately need to insert a little search engine box on the main directory page.. just a little rectangle form to make a search on our directory, above the category listing.
Hope that someone can help me. Thanks a lot.
I have been using this plugin for quite a while now. But now i see in my google webmasters account that it gives me a lot of duplicate titles and descriptions. doesnt seem to be search engine friendly.
Hey Guys n Gals, I’ve just released version 1.8 which includes all the benefits of WordPress Link Directory Pro (which has now been discontinued due to complains about the CPALead requirement).
WordPress Link Directory Pro adds a few things, namely the ability to sell links and to display/count hits in and out for each website.
I expect there to be one or two minor issues until it’s been better tested, so please let me know of any bugs you find. I’ve also set up a bbPress forum where I’ll now be urging people to ask/report anything related to WPLD:
WordPress Link Directory Discussion Forum
I think this is better than allowing the large number of comments here to increase any further. So, if anyone has any further questions or problems, please let me know there.
Cheers!
If have just upgraded to wordpress 2.7. I have previously been using 1.6.2. of your links directory. 1.7 caused some problems and seemed to conflict with something, hence sticking to 1.6.2
Now have a major problem.
Now what ever changes I make to the admin page are not saved. Tried removing the tables, deactivating, still doesn’t allow me to save changes from admin screen.
Any suggestions as to get around this? Thanks
Hi Sean
Just trying your version 1.8 and getting this error message
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 433
any suggestions?
Hi,
Can you tell me how to configure this plugin for my website after I install it (activate it).
Please contact me on mail.
I am usually cautious when updating this plugin but I have unwittingly upgraded mine. And so I was expecting something not good but to my surprise, it works great. Here’s the link to my site, http://www.alternativefront.com
Thanks Sean.
Thx fot the nice plugin, Sean.
I can’t save changed settings on 2.7.Clean installed.
Is there any problem?
Whatever I put into the permalinks input box, when I click save, it doesn’t save. I’ve tried everything. Is there any place (phpmyadmin?) I can input this in manually?
I’m trying to use:
/%category%/%postname%/
Thanks!
Brett
Update:
It’s the entire plugin page that isn’t submitting. I think it’s a wp2.7 thing.
The links in their default form no longer work, nor do they if I change the permalink structure.
Thanks for the work on the plugin so far, but you may want to have some sort of disclaimer that it doesn’t work (with wp 2.7) yet.
I have the same problems with gaga..
and i got this error message
Fatal error: /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1173
You guys must be having better sucess then me. I tried to register on this forums three (3) times under the name: rishel and never received an email.
Then I sent him an email, never got a reply, nothing.
Not sure what someone has to do to register on there, talk about crazy, lol.
And to add to that, even if my account is validated I dont know the password.
Sean has an amazing script going here, but I am not sure what the future of it is. It’s impossible to reach the guy.
I’m using a subdomain to test your script. The problem starts when you hit the Add URL link. My guess; captcha problems. Best you take a look for yourself (if you got the time of course
).
http://babes.legerhumor.nl/?page_id=7&act=addsite
(I’m using WP 2.5)
Hi guys. We have made a “fix” to get this working (WordPress Version 2.7), if you want to try the fix and let us know if it works, that would be great.
http://www.electricchalk.com/wordpress-link-directory/
Thanks to Sean for this great plugin! We cannot wait for your next offical release
ElectricChalk, I would like a working version of it if you can email me at: rishel @ comcast.net
I have translated WordPress Link Directory to danish.
Hi Sean,
I have the same problem like other had before that whatever link I try to add in the frontend using the add url form it says “The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.”. I tried to follow your advise with the “Multiple Links From Same Domain?” Option. But whether it is on yes or no I get the same message over and over again.
I would like to use your directory and hope you can fix the Problems somehow.
Thanks
J32
ElectricChalk, I did your script it works ok. I can save my settings, but when I attempt to add a link, it gives this error and wont save any links, it stops…
Invalid query 2: Column count doesn’t match value count at row 1
I think the WordPress plugin update was the Pro version as the one I automatically loaded from WordPress was loaded.
1. My settings for WordPress Link Directory would not update
2. I did see a Premium Links section
3. No links were listed, but strangely, the categories were at least showing up.
I am going to downgrade to the previous version I had. Thank you though for the wonderful script. I will try to see about scrounging around for some money to “buy you a coffee.”
Hi Sean, just tried 1.8.1 still getting this error message
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in …/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 469
Can you offer any advice on how to get around this
Thanks
I also installed the 1.8.1 version.
When i am trying to approve some pending links..i get this message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function using_permalinks() on a non-object in /home/.*********/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1247
what is going wrong?
any help…please
Sean I have tried all versions up to 1.7, (not game to try 1.8 as a database re-install is probably the outcome), but I always come back to version 1.5 as being the most stable for essential functions. It does the basics:
1. Visitors can add links
2. Admin can add/edit links
3. Links added appear in directory
4. Admin notified by email of new links added
Only one small problem which I can live with, admin email links contain funny characters $1,$2,$3,etc. no prob, as I check the links without the $… part.
Best thing is, it still works in WordPress 2.7!!!
Want to see it working? Add a link.
Home Directory at: http://gnetwork.com.au/
Wordpress Directory at: http://gnetwork.com.au/directory/directory-wordpress
PS: I have redirects in place to go from “/directory?cat=directory_name” to each individual directory category page.
I will wait till you have a more solid working version before upgrading.
Rishel! Please email me at aaron [at] electricchalk.com — and i will work with you to get your links directory working!
Anyone else that is saying Sean’s plugin does not work — have you tried our fix???
Thanks.
Hello, Sean,
Couple things:
1. Why does this plug-in insert header CSS on every page of my blog instead of just the directory pages in which it’s apparently needed? Can you please add a preference to remove the header CSS from all non-directory pages?
2. The STYLE code that it inserts breaks my W3C validation. In fact, you can see how it’s breaking the validation of your own example directory page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.seanbluestone.com/links
Thank you
people, don’t use version 1.8.1 – it is NOT stable!
It has 3 MAJOR bugs:
1) if you turn the plugin off – it will erase ALL of your links.
2) no backup plugin I found works while the link directory plugins works
3) you can’t approve new links.
I lost almost 50 links + e-mails because of 1 and 2.
be warned…
Tal
Can someone, anyone, tell me how to make a call to this script on a non post or blog page. Simply put, I want to include the categories layout on the main wordpress page.
When I press on the “Links” in my menu, it takes me to the page that shows my categories, with the menu above it. How do I include that on say my opening wordpress page.
What would I use in the code to call that?
Sean: I am getting a
Warning: unlink(/tmp/captchasnet-random-strings/e2tqde7gbsm581wkjfrwbdknchv7h7alyt23yz9z) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in /home/blondish/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wplinkdir/captcha.php on line 78
Warning: unlink(/tmp/captchasnet-random-strings/__time_stamp__) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in /home/blondish/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wplinkdir/captcha.php on line 78
Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Utime failed: Permission denied in /home/blondish/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wplinkdir/captcha.php on line 84
Warning: fopen(/tmp/captchasnet-random-strings/5jegq3bnv8hu3868i6cgpvmbywmq7ty3439kwbxj) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/blondish/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wplinkdir/captcha.php on line 104
I will see if I can come up with something on my end but I have been busy with my re-release of PHPads.
I installed your WordPress Link Directory plugin on a couple of my blogs and love the ease of use of it. I liked it so much I posted an article on two of my blogs linking to you and giving you the credit. Thank you for sharing this plugin with all of us.
Sue Scaletta
http://lanechase.net/blog
http://videoemailchat.com/blog
Sean,
I had the idea to make a page listing a group of categories but when I use more than one shortcode on a page it throws the rest of the page out of whack. It will show the second shortcode but it won’t be sized the same and everything after that is messed up.
-Bob
ANYONE Else have a page set up that lists a few categories using shortcodes like…
[wplinkdir category="Services"]
[wplinkdir category="Retail"]
on the same page??
I`ve got a problem
After “Add Url” i receive following message: “The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.” – What’s wrong? – Link: http://www.ub-reith.de/weblinks/
Looks like everything works except when I try to approve a link waiting for approval. When I use the drop down in the admin panel and select then approve I just get a blank ‘Add link’ page.
Other than that it’s a cool plugin!
Hi! Same problems like Andreas & if I click on a category title (link) -> Not found What can be the problem? Thx
my opinion,this plugin is very great..but when i try to install it, Home | Add URL | Link To Us doesn’t link correctly…please tell me how to fix this issue?
Hey, Love the plugin! But…
Is there a way to backup the links from the DB maybe using PHPMyadmin or something? I wish I knew that the links would be deleted when you deactivated the plugin. I lost all my links from everyone in my community blog, and now I have to send an email to let everyone know their link got deleted by mistake, and ask if they could you please resubmit their link?
Are the links still there in the DB somewhere? or are they gone forever?
Great plugins…
see it in action
domaincoupon.net/partners/
thanks
@Eric: “Are the links still there in the DB somewhere? or are they gone forever?” Yup, they are gone.
Here’s a ‘fix’ to stop it happening again:
http://www.seanbluestone.com/forums/topic/if-you-turn-the-plugin-off-all-your-links-are-lost
@ChuckMcB: Thanks! worked like a charm. Great plugin!
Are you for hire? I’ve got a project I’m working on and need a PHP programmer to build a theme for me. You have my email if you want to talk business.
Thanks again for the help!
@Rolando: I noticed the same problem. After selecting “Approved” from the drop down menu on the Edit Links page and clicking [Update] the page refreshed to a blank Add Link page.
I found a fix for mine, apparently the Lost Links Database fix works on the “Approved” link problem as well. I don’t know if it will work on your site too but it’s worth a try.
The fix is located here: http://www.seanbluestone.com/forums/topic/if-you-turn-the-plugin-off-all-your-links-are-lost
Hey there!
Could anybody tell me all the avaible shortcodes? Is there a shortcode to add the “Home”, “Add URL”, “Link to us” and “Search” with just one shortcode?
One more bugreport: in WP 2.7, it’s not possible to delete links anymore…
Hello Sean and thank you for wonderful plugin!
I have one note. Is it possible to make categories open with category-id not category-name in url? Because non-English urls will look like this one: ?cat=%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8
You can see a sample on my site:
http://kosivart.if.ua/sites/
Sean, How about an [Export Links] button in WP Links admin area? Is this easy to do? This way if you want to uninstall the plugin completely or move it you can just simply download your links DB and plug it back in somewhere else.
Or if you have another site you want those same links on you could [Import] them into another copy of your plugin.
Complicated to add?
Hi, Sean:
Thank you for the nice and usefull plugin. It works on few of my sites except one of them with Cyrillic – please, take a look at http://d-e-d.info/?page_id=186 .
Could you provide with any suggession how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!
Ohmygosh I just had to tell you that out of ALL the other link exchange methods I tried WP-Link Directory is the only one that works with my theme (Revolution Church) AND WP 2.7.
THANK you!
and now I’m getting an internal server error. hmm
Hi Sean,
I just tried the most recent version with 7.0 I get a error message and it ruins the dashboard. I have removed it. I have an older version which i have used on newer versions of wordpress and it’s just great.
Your plugin is one of the best I have ever seen. I hope that you will be able to get it to work with 7.0. WordPress should include a plugin like this in it’s core.
All the best.
The plugin will not work on my blog Here is what I get:
Fatal error: Call to a member function using_permalinks() on a non-object in /home2/reliable/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 1247
Thanks
Hi there,
Is there anyway to show like 10 newest link on the directory page above categories and also on the sidebar on the homepage?
Thanks
Fil
Hello Sean, yes i have had errors with your plugin and it created a fatal error so i cannot use it. U released an updated version a few days ago, but not compatible with the latest version of wordpress? How does that make sense?
Hi Sean,
FYI I am using your latest version 1.8.2 on WP 2.7 so far it appears to be working fine. However there are a few items that do not work and I am not sure if because of 2.7 or other issues.
1. The category count does not add sub-category
2. The permalink function is not working at all
FYI if you are having ‘internal server errors’ like I was after installing this its NOT the plugin, its more than likely the htaccess file that’s corrupted, making a blank one worked for me. This plugin is working on WP 2.7 with Revolution Church theme FYI and still is the ONLY link directory plugin that does so far:)
I was not familiar with the red download button in a weird place, so I got caught in a link loop between this page linking to WordPress and WordPress linking to this page.
I would suggest you do like other developers and set up a direct link from this page to your plugin files.
Going to test it now!
Hi Sean,
First thanks for this plugin as this is really critical for my new blog which is running on WordPress 2.7.
Gladly I updated to version 1.8.2 of your plugin and found admin section is fixed properly.
Thing which is completely broken in my case is “permalinks”.
http://www.orkutdiary.com/links/ lists just homepage post instead showing link directory.
I guess @T2 is also reporting same problem.
Waiting for link_dir 1.8.3
Thanks,
-Rahul
P.S. Can you please add “subscribe to comment reply via email” option on your blog.
Hi Sean,
great plugin! Thank you! Tweaked it a little bit >;o)
http://www.nadelspiel.com/linklove/
If you want anything of my changes, just let me know!
Kind regards from Austria,
eliZZZa
Hello Sean, I have just installed the pro version. thanks.
http://www.factorys.asia/?page_id=9
It seemed go smooth. I can add and edit categories and see the new category structure on the site, but submitted listings dont come into admin panel anywhere for approval. I changed to not needing approval and still dont get new links. I added a link via the “Edit links” section of the admin panel and it gives a message “….. Link Added” but does not seem to add them or show them in the section below.
The database section of WP also correctly shows 3 cats but no records under wp_wplinkdir_links
Hi all,
I’ve a WordPress blog. If my WP-LINK Directory is deactivated my blog is totally compatible with W3C.
Could you offer to me a great link directory solution for WordPress which is W3C compatible? You response would be greatly appreciated.
language don´t work,
Plugin just work in English,
Wordpress just ignore all archive .mo
I don’t know why the “add URL” section doesn’t work on my blog. Help please!!
You can see it on my web here: http://www.eltenis.com/enlaces/
Many thanks
When Adding a link in the directory
it does not seem to check for a backlink
If reciprocal link is set to anything besides nobody
and approval is set to anything besides do not require
all submitted links are sent to the pending que.
Also when trying to cleanse the links with no backlinks
I get an error pointing to
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /blah/blah/public_html/blah/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 504
while($Link=mysql_fetch_assoc($getLinks)){
I tried to check the relationship of the request to the database table and it seems ok but I could be missing something.
Anyway cleanse , import and Export all seem to fail but only cleanse gives an error……
The PayPal Function is also failing in both test and pay mode.
On click of the paypal button you get fired off to
?cat=SOMETHING&act=premium?id=&action=process
which is back where you were
ALSO heh
Secureimage captcha is not working captchas.net works fine
Using WP2.7.1 and Version: 1.8.2
Also another note for some reason I could not alter the Permalink Setting to remove links so it would be nice with my permalinks…
For some reason I fired up IE and went to the settings page and could alter that field
I thought that was strange but it worked after that.
Anyway
thanks for making the plugin
It is a good project for people like me that want to offer backlinks sorted in a directory and I am sure a lot of people can use this too.
Love the plugin man!
Is there anyway to make the permalinks do just the category name instead of the ?cat= stuff?
Even if not I’ll be using this plugin for it’s awesomeness. Thanks again!
Hello friends!
If “Add link”:
Error: The URL you supplied doesn’t seem to be valid.
Wordpress versión: 2.7
WPLinkDirectory: 1.8
which is the problem?
Thanks
I cannot get the WordPress Link Directory 1.8.2 plugin to work properly with WordPress 2.7.1. I get the link page but when I click on a link the page goes back to my blog’s home page rather than to a link page. What can I do to make it recognize the link page?
Thank you for your help.
Sue Scaletta
Seems not to work for me either :/ If you enable permantentlink then you can’t access the folder anymore (instant redirect) also no links get added (either manually nor via submit)
I seem to be having the same (or similar) problem as Sue Scaletta. It looks like everything works fine without using permalinks, but, as soon as I enable them (in any combination), the links directory is replaced with my blog or home page.
I’m hesitant about downloading the Pro version, because it’s still in BETA.
However, nice work on this and it looks like you’re providing excellent support!
I also got this when I tried to submit a link:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/policalc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/all_in_one_seo_pack.php:632) in /home/policalc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/securimage.php on line 422
Any ideas?
I know…I’m being a pain…
When I try to “buy” a premium link, I get redirected back to the links home page (test mode or not).
Also, from the email generated by WPLD, it says the following: “You can view your link here: http://www.policalc.com/links&id=2”
This generates a page not found error (permalinks not enabled).
I guess while I’m waiting, I’ll give you an update…
For some reason, I was able to get the directory working with permalinks enabled. It just “started working”.
The error message, above, was eliminated when I switched to “Captchas.net” instead of Secureimage.
The “buy” issue still exists and I would love for WPLD to affect the page title, and possibly keywords and description when going to the “more info” page for each link. I understand that there would have to be a “keywords” textbox on the submission form.
I just upgraded to WP 2.7.1 and am having the same problem as Sue. Clicking on any link just takes you straight to the homepage of my site.
That aside I would like to thank you for a great plugin which, until the WP upgrade, has been excellent.
This is a great plugin.
I want to add the search form to my sidebar, so I am manually adding the HTML and using a “GET” command. However, whenever I do a search through this, I get a “search results not found” error. It seems I am halfway there, but for some reason my search query is not being treated correctly. Any ideas?
Can’t add links from the front end. I get the
Your site (http://www.itv.co.uk) is already in our directory in the Birthday parties category.
any help appreciated.
http://www.smallimportantpeople.co.uk/kidspartyideas/links/
Hello SeanBluestone.com !
I’m waiting from mid 2008 and keeping to search sometimes.
I found your nice plugin from Google : wp for directory.
Thanks & keep coding.
Best Regards
works beautifully! very easy to use. thanks so much!
I’ve also got the same problem as Sue. I get the link category pages fine, but if you click on any category, it just takes you to the home page.
I’m using /%category%/%postname% as my permalink structure. Any help would be much appreciated.
Its too bad PayPal payments don’t work. Also, can you put on the premium page how many days they will be paying for?
I am using this Link Directory plugin and it is great, but I am wondering if anyone has had the same experience as I.
I had a sub-category that showed up twice with the same links in both listings. When I deleted one, both were deleted along with the links that were approved in the category.
I have tried several times to add those links back in and although it says they are saved when I add them, they are no where to be found.
I even tried adding them through the blog site as another webmaster would do. I received an email notification that they were awaiting my approval, but again they are no where to be found.
Does anyone know if a link partner is deleted, can they been added back in again?
Has anyone experienced any similar problems?
Thanks,
Sue Scaletta
This is an update on the comment I posted on 02.18.09 – Clicking on a link page goes to blog’s home page.
I was able to resolve the problem this way:
~Make sure you write a “Description” when creating and editing the categories.
~On the “WP Link Directory” page, scroll almost to the bottom of the page.
~ Under “Other Options” make sure the “Permalinks” box is left blank.
Once you do that your link pages should work properly.
Sue Scaletta
Hi Sean, love this plugin !
But it seems some english terms are hard coded and can’t be translated using poedit. For instance, to linking back, step 1 can be translated but step 2 is still in english :
“Step 2: Add your link to our site using this page. You will be added instantly and we will begin sending traffic back to you immediately.”
Are there any plans to fix this ?
First let me say that I really like this plugin. Great idea.
I am putting together a new blog and ran into the same problem some other people mentioned here. The description field appears to be set up to accept no more than 250 characters.
I went into the database and changed the 250 to 2048. Then I did the same thing for the description (in several places) in the link-directory.php file. Then everything worked the way I needed it to work.
I didn’t study the code carefully, but I’m assuming that when you set the description to unlimited length, the 250 value is supposed to get changed. It does not appear to be doing that.
Again, thanks so much for this plugin. I look forward to updates and to making a monetary contribution.
I am having the same problem as most people here. I have 2.7.1 and all the links refer back to the main page even though the url is specific to the link directory.
Hello I have a problem with the directory to the latest directory do not see why demo http://www.likaweb.net/blog/?page_id=2029
Sean,
I am receiving this error when I attempt to use the cleanse links function:
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/mydomainlink/public_html/mydomainname/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 504
Please assist.
Sue Scaletta
nothing happens after placing “[wplinkdir]” in the body of the page. what happens when i click the page is that my “home” page appears. btw, i’m using the latest WP..
hope to get your feedback on this guys. greet plugin but haven’t used it yet..
The above did the trick! Thank you so much!
WP2.7
WP-Link-Directory-Pro / 1.7.3
Affected Menus:
WP Admin -> WP Link Directory
WP Admin -> Premium Links
WP Admin -> Tagging Options
Problem:
Settings are not saved to MySQL DB when ‘Save Changes’ clicked. The category page changes seem to be submitted to DB ok though.
running 2.7
on the add url page, how do I increase the width of the drop down box in which the categories are listed? My category names are quite long and hence cut cut off by the width of the drop down box so I need to make it wider.
hope someone can help, many thanks.
J:)
Great Plugin! We are using in our website!
Just one quick coding question:
Is there anyway to output a list of random links?
Thanks,
Rex
Hi,
I just installed your plugin and it’s very easy. One question though. Is it possible to have the thumbnail be on the actual link page and not have to click on the “more info” link to see those?
Like maybe a choice to have either PR or thumbnail? Preferably both, but of the two, i’d rather have the thumbnail.
Thanks for a great plugin!
Is this plugin compatible with WPMU? If not, do you plan on releasing a MU compatible version in the near future? I have used the plugin on other sites and I prefer it over anything else I’ve come across. I’m using MU to set up a personal website hosting service for bloggers and would like to use WP Link Directory for the main blog, and if possible, give users the option of using it on their sub-domains as well.
Really slick plugin – exactly what I’ve been looking for. Been needing to get a business directory put together. [Hope it works with my theme, etc.]
Thanks!
Hi
Are you available for PAID changes to this link directory?
We love it but need just a few more features. It would be for http://www.theplenty.org a non-profit local currency here in North Carolina.
Let me know, please
thx!
When user tries to enter a link to my website, the following error is obtained.
WordPress Link Directory
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/installation/
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/ajabhi/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/header.php:3) in /home/ajabhi/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/securimage.php on line 422
Please help
Hello,
Awesome plugin! Everything works perfectly for me. Thanks!
There is something I would like to add to the directory but can’t figure it out.
I would like to add a screen shot of each site. The description section support html so I tried to add a table with 2 cells: left for the image and right for site description.
It works but it mess my right column big time. Here is the cote I used instead of the html link:
Description goes here
Is there any way I can make it work without losing the right column?
Thanks lot!
humm… the code don’t work here. anyway, it’s a simple table.
Thanks
A great program, thanks!
Similar problem as others are reporting. Recently updated WordPress and used the auto-update features to install the latest version of the WP Link Directory plugin.
The main page looks fine and appears to be counting the # of links in each category just fine, but then when I try to go to an individual category, I get this instead of the links:
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /my-long-server-path/flash/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 948
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /my-long-server-path/flash/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 957
Here is the main page that is working fine:
http://www.jockjerseys.com/flash/sports-links/
Here is a sample category that results in the error above:
http://www.jockjerseys.com/flash/sports-links/?cat=Basketball+Links
(should be 6 links on that page)
Anyone have a solution to this or can you confirm if an earlier mentioned solution is the right one?
Would like to reactivate the link directory, but it is Private until I can get it working right.
J-Jerseys Admin
I’m wanting to have a widget for most recently added Links to the directory. Any point me in the right direction on how to do this?
I am having an issues with wp link directory, I have 1.8.2 and it was working. But for some reason now when I click on any of the categories I get a “Not Found” page with a search box on it. If I look at one of the link properties it seem to look correct (“http://www.googlestatus.com/?cat=Automotive”). The “Home | Add URL | Link To Us | Search” links work fine and I can search for something it will display a list.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Like some other’s have posted, I was getting the message
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/ajabhi/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/header.php:3) in /home/ajabhi/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/securimage.php on line 422
when adding a link, to temporarily fix it, I changed the Captcha from securimage to Captchas.net. Must be something in the securimage code that is sending a header.
Any fix forthcoming on the 250 character description field limit? Have installed plugin and am excited touse, but really need longer descriptions. Setting the field length on the control panel doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks
I’m running WordPress 2.7.1. and everything gets sent back to the main page when trying to add or view a link.
Sue, I tried to do what You did but still does thh same thing. Anyone help?
Thanks
On your demo when you submit site :
When catpcha is wrong or URL is wrong….
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/sites/seanbluestone.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/all_in_one_seo_pack.php:632) in /home/sites/seanbluestone.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/securimage.php on line 422
Howdy. Any progress on the paid or “premium” link feature? I cannot get it to work with my PP acct.
Please advise.
Thanks.
Robert A.
I’ve been trying to set that in place for a few hours now and can’t get it to work how it’s supposed to. First I had the /links redirecting to the home page problem which I solved (partly) but now I can’t even see the list of categories I set up, the page is all broken. Having tried to look at the source code, it seems something’s going on around line 2335 of link-directory.php but my error_log doesn’t tell me anything useful, just that it can’t start domxml, libpdf and the dbase module.
I run WP 2.7.1 on PHP 5.2
Hi I love the plugin. I haven’t loaded it on yet as I wanted to ask if there is a way of introducing individual page titles? All the examples I have looked at all have the same title throughout the directory which is not ideal for SEO purposes.
Plus, how tricky would it be to add fields to the entry form to be displayed on the details page? I’m thinking counties etc.
Have no fear that I will buy you a coffee on download!
Paypal payment not working.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I have installed the plugin and created the page with the [wplinkdir] and its showing up in my menu but when i click on the link to the page, it just takes me back to my home page!!!
Hi! I was just wondering if the Pro Version supports the pretty permalinks… I don’t mind buying actually, but I just need to know that it is being supported first.
Thanks.
you should have the option to add a banner whether uploaded on the server or elsewhere on the internet.
Hi,
Is there a way to update the page rank periodically or manually?
Thanks.
Hello Sean,
I’ve tried to find the fix in the different postings but haven’t succeeded yet. Can you help me. I have these error messages on the home page of my directory.
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/e/l/a/elaperle/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 2327
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/e/l/a/elaperle/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-link-directory/link-directory.php on line 2349
What should I do to fix this?
Thanks.
Great tool. Had an issue, but found the problem.
Hello!
I just installed normally your plugin and activated its on the WP plugin link. I set up two categories and 2 link to each one. However, links and categories is not being showed on the blog (http://vidareal.freehostia.com/). It’s like I didn’t do anything. Make sense?
Therefore, I would like to know if you have any thoughts about what’s happening in my case.
Thanks so much for the attention,
This sounds a great tool, I’ll use it shortly.
great product – but the table at the footer of your ‘ad’ is screwing with my page formating – why not make it 80% width or something – looks like I may have to uninstall – a shame
I’ve translated the ..po into spanish languaje, but when I upload it, only shows a half translation.
You need to test your plugin a little better and nail down what it works with and what it doesn’t and document this a little better on the site.
There is a major problem with how permalinks don’t work.
If you need help, please email me as I am a wordpress developer and a highly experienced php developer.
Can you add new fields to the form that are then displayed on the submission? Example: phone, owner name, etc.
Hello
Great tool, using the last version, how can I display the list of categories in the sidebar?
Thanks
L.
Anyone get this working on WPMU? I’m getting fatal error when activating:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home/myroot/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 920
1. If one translate the “Nobody” string in the .po file, the reciprocal link function gets broken, as the string is hardcoded in some ‘ifs’.
2. What is required for the “check if url exists” function to work? It always says that the url is invalid in my two installations (home and ISP). Had to comment it out.
3. If one cannot post links to the home category, then it should be not allowed to choose the home category when entering links. The plugin accepts the link, says it has been added, but the link never show up under the main category.
4. What is the reason to not allow links being posted to the main categories?
Hi!
I have a problem with the language files. I have translated the file into swedish but I can’t get it work with WP Link Directory 1.8.2. I have all the files .po. mo and .pot it doesn’t work out anyway.
Can anyone send me some give me some hint about what I have to do to make it work.
Please hurry up bacause rest of the site is in swedish.
Hi Sean, just barely found this plugin and liking it so far. Thank you for your work. The one thing I’m trying to do is have the submitted links all show up in one list on a table, with next/previous capability. This table would have one column with the links and the other column with the category the link is in. Is that at all possible? If not, is it possible to have a [wplinkdir category="all"] or something so the links all show up in one list? Thanks!
Sean, Great script thankyou.
I am with “Hitagi” above though, I would also prefer to fully display the links without categories & without having to click the “More Info”.
I don’t think anyone really wants to look at a page full of text & to have the default display as showing the thumbshot etc I think is a better set up (for me anyway).
Also is it possible to have it all viewed by anyone, but only members may add a link…? This step would help to reduce spammers I think.
I have also noticed that the requirement for a reciprical link does not stop people adding their link even if no reciprical link is given…? Would it not be possible to get the script to automatically refuse any attempt to add a link unless it has checked & found a reciprical link in place.
Regards Steve
I downloaded the plugin, installed it and works perfect!
thanks for the plugin.
cheers
Hi,
I see some issues with the plugin. Correct me if I am doing anything wrong here.
1) installation works perfect.
2) i can categories, etc.
When a visitor tries to click on any of these links -
( Home | Add URL | Link To Us | Search | Premium )
it takes the visitor to the home page instead.
Am I doing something wrong here?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Addition to the above, even when I click on any category it takes me to the HOME page.
Any clue why its been doing this?
ok. i have read the readme.txt and found a solution in there. for me the permalinks set in the configuration did not work – info. So after leaving this form blank, all the links are now working as expected.
thanks a lot. much appreciate.
Am using wordpress 2.8 and cannot get wp-directory to work to save my soul. Is the software compatible with 2.8? The error I keep getting is the 404 cannot be found. I have a page with the tag [wplinkdir]. I have also tried [wplinkdir directory] too. I have run across the compatible issue with other plugins so I am assuming that is it.
Thanks
I tried to use the German language .mo file. Renamed it and put it in the main plugin Folder. Baut with the german file I was unable to add new links. Nothing happend. After cuting the file back to lang Folder everything worked normal. Also many of my Links under “Edit Links” show the wrong category. But on the frontend everything is right
Hi, everything looks working fine but links are not showing up. Categories are there, descriptions too, anything. But links are not there. Any hint? Thanks
Hi.
I am not able to write special characters like žđšćč in admin area as soon as in in directory pages.
How can I solve that problem?
Hi Sean
Just wondering if you have any future plans on making this plugin W3C compliant.
Great work btw
Ben
How do I edit the demo link and change the HTML for the reciprocal link?
Paul, you do both through the WordPress back office. You have a new WP Link Directory menu section where you can edit links and the Reciprocal Link HTML setting to adjust the link required.
Hey Sean,
I’ve setup your plugin and it displays with no issue. I’ve had 2 friends with sites to setup a link using your software and when it goes to check for a reciprocal link it says it can’t.
I decided to test this on 2 of my other sites and I get the same results.
“We couldn’t find a reciprocal link on the page ” followed by the site URL.
They and myself have copied the “link to us” code exactly.
Doesn’t appear to work for WordPress 2.9.1.
I have the permalink structure of /%category%/%postname% as suggested and have created a page titled ‘links’ with the permalink the same name as well. I have included the [wplinkdir] on that page all as instructed but when I try to view that page, it only shows the main page, as if the page I have created does not exist. It has been published as it is appearing in my menu and the link is correct.
I noticed this plugin says it is compatible up to version 2.6.3 which is over a year old, will there be an update so it will work with more current versions?
Thanks, Gemma
Hi, Is there a PHP 5.3 fix yet? The plugin is not working correctly in PHP 5.3.
I’m trying to fix it manually, but was hoping that there is a patch somewhere. Thanks
Is there a way to change de properties of the posted links via Editor? Where does the links go? to what file?
I have to change 500 links and its kind of slow via admin
Hiya Sean!
I hope you find the time to reply soon. I love the plugin it’s features are great. My only problem is (like others have mentioned) the PayPal feature isn’t working. When you click the paypal button it doesn’t connect to PayPal at all, all links and directories disappear from view and the following “?id=&action=process” is appended to the end of the URL.
You can check this out at my site http://giftsidlove.co.uk
Also for those of you that can’t get it to work with the permalinks problem sending you to your home page etc, DON’T PLACE THE CODE ON A PAGE, pop it on a post and it works just fine and dandy!
WPLD ver 1.8.2
WP ver 2.9.2
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