Help with external links in posts

  • Resolved GreenBoy2000

    (@greenboy2000)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hi

    I am new to wordpress and am having some dificulty getting my head around some of its methods.

    What i want to do seems really simple, but I do not seem to be able to work out how to do this.

    What i want is to hold a library of links (external) and then within a post select one or two that are relevant to the post to include within the post.. I dont want them within a widget in a sidebar, but actually in the post. I would also like a ‘Further Reading’ section at the bottom of the post for some more links (both internal and external)

    I see there is the Links section in the WP admin, but I do not know how to make these available to select within a post.

    Can somebody please point me in the right direction.

    I have looked at the pluggins, but none seem to allow me to choose individual links to insert – just categories.

    Thanks for any support given.

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  • Just hardlink them in the post!

    Enter some link text then highlight the link text and from the editor use the link icon and insert the link.

    You can even use the list bullets from the editors icon ribbon.

    HTH

    david

    Thread Starter GreenBoy2000

    (@greenboy2000)

    Hi Digital

    I already know how to do this, but I want to re-use links time and again (somewhere between 30-50 in total, but only want to select 1 or 2 as relevant to the post) and therefore would like a way to select them from a list and insert them without having to look up the URL paste etc etc.

    Also keeping them in a central resource means if the URL changes I would only have to update in one place instead of updating dozens of articles.

    It just strikes me a bit odd that there is already the links section ‘blogroll’ in WP but no way to access them individually in a post.

    Thanks for your response.

    There is no way out the box, the only way I can think of that would be easy to manage.

    Use link categories to group the WordPress links, then create a shortcode to return the list and to drop them into the post, you would need to style them as well.

    I have written and tested this in a twenty eleven child theme, shortcode function, this code goes in functions.php, add the links in the admin links, then use link categories to group them, add links to one or more categories.

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter GreenBoy2000

    (@greenboy2000)

    Thanks David

    I will give this a try.

    Hi,
    If anyone wants the child theme with the code can be downloaded twenty eleven child theme links!

    In the post just add [links category] so if the category was WordPress you would add [links wordpress]

    If this resolved the issue please update this topic as resolved!

    David

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