Comments on: Using bookmarks more effectively

By: Viktor

Viktor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:35:32 +0000

I would love to use Wordpress Blogroll functionality as personal online bookmarking service. I am using 3 different computer and several browsers, so it would be nice to have just one service accessible from all machines and browsers.

Right now I am using a special Page with the Blogroll display as RSS. But still it’s a bit of a hassle to add new bookmarks.

Any ideas how to make saving new bookmarks quicker?

By: RickMeasham

RickMeasham — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:03:57 +0000

I have (hacked) the wp-links-opml.php file to output the links as RSS. It’s not very robust, but anyone that wants it is welcome to ask (via the contact page on the above URL).

As for tracking, I’m using Google Analytics anyway, so I just use that to track external link clicks: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55527

I’m rather sick of links/bookmarks being such second-class citizens, but I don’t really have enough time to participate in the development community in order to submit patches to WP

Cheers!
Rick Measham

By: qoman

qoman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:43:32 +0000

Hello Justin

Do you have an idea on how to put tags on bookmarks?

qoman

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:44:41 +0000

Well, in my mind there are two ways to use links. One is to drive traffic to my older posts (like you mentioned). To do this, I’ve created link categories for each month of the year because many of my posts (crafting, parenting, recipes) tend to be seasonal. I use Better Blogroll (along with link images and description info) to create a rotating reminder of seasonally appropriate ideas, and all I have to do to keep it current is go into the widget and update the name of the month as the category. I’m really happy with this method as it automatically shows a picture with a hover-over description of the link.

And the second use of links that I would love to utilize is to provide external resources (both affiliate and not affiliate) to my readers. The idea is that I’ve surfed the internet A LOT and have accumulated a ton of bookmarks of how-tos and inspiration for cooking, crafting, parenting, homeschooling, etc. And each one of these has multiple subcategories and sub-subcategories. This is the one that I’m having more of a problem with making a reality. I’d like to display these on easily navigable pages, possibly with thumbnails for the actual links. For example… Educational Resources would have the subcategories of Writing, Music, Science, Math, History, Art and then the Science subcategory would have further subcategories of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Physics. But, wordpress doesn’t support hierarchies for link categories. And without the hierarchies, it would just be information overload. Also, there are so many of these bookmarks that I worry about the mess it would make of the links page on my admin panel. Finally, I have no idea how to actually go about displaying them (even if I was able to load all the hierarchies), which is what I googled to find you.

I’m new enough to wordpress (still posting on blogger as I create the wordpress site) that every single thing I do has a huge learning curve. The wordpress forum has been less than awesome, so I thought I’d reach out to the blogs. I’ll definitely be poking around your site, starting with How to create an image gallery with bookmarks.

Thanks so much.

By: killtheliterate

killtheliterate — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:18:51 +0000

hey justin… how does one go about renaming the “bookmarks” widget…

By: Pierre K.

Pierre K. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:49:36 +0000

Hello Justin

Do you have an idea on how to put tags on bookmarks ?

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:54:06 +0000

Ricky Buchanan — That page on your site should definitely be done with the WordPress Links Manager. It would make it easy to update without having to hardcode everything. Jacki — The WordPress devs can't make assumptions such as a site having a menu or even a sidebar. It's just the backbone. How we display content shouldn't be up to WordPress at all. That type of thing belongs solely within themes and plugins.

By: Jacki

Jacki — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:41:13 +0000

It beats me why Wordpress doesn’t just have a simple built-in way to add ONE link to the menu or sidebar saying “Links” or “Sponsors” or whatever that then leads to a page of links. So you don’t have a long list (or even a short one) in your sidebar which I’ve always found a bad idea. Instead you just have a standard title that leads to your list of links.

Currently I have to do it all as a page/subpages and don’t use the Wordpress links/blogroll at all. In fact, I never have.

But I like the idea I saw of using it for navigation. Don’t need to at the moment but a good thing to file away for future developments. Thanks!!

By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:50:33 +0000

I’ve been thinking that my resources page on ATMac should be DB driven as it’s currently just headings and links with descriptions. It would fit perfectly within what the WP bookmarks section allows but I’d never thought of it! I’m still not sure exactly how it would be done, but this is the page: http://atmac.org/resources/links/

It seems to fit what you’re suggesting is possible, at least

By: Justin Tadlock

Justin Tadlock — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:18:40 +0000

Free online gamer — I'm not a big fan of adding links to the top commenters of a blog. I would only suggest it if you're building a community. Hybrid-Leviathan User — I didn't change any code. Stop by my support forums to get help using Hybrid's built-in widget system.