Link Category?

> …I don’t understand how I should be using this text field.)

e.g., If I create a category named “Community” and insert the value “community” into the “Slug” field and into the “Category Link” field, the target of the hyperlink becomes…

<a href="#community">Community</a>

Is this the expected behavior? This seems logical for the [link-library-cats] shortcode but not for the [link-library] shortcode (because the link category name is located directly at the top of the list of links).

Is this functionality supposed to be used with Link Library’s permalink setting? e.g.,

[Admin] -> Link Library -> Library Settings -> Common: Enable Permalinks
[Admin] -> Link Library -> Library Settings -> Common: Permalinks Page

TIA,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

I will get back to you this evening.

The Category Link field in the Category editor is a strange field indeed. It’s goal is to let you have the category header in the output generated by the [link-library] shortcode go to an external site or a page on the site. But not necessarily a page with links. A user asked to add support for this and I decided to put it in, but I don’t think that this is used a lot.

The permalink setting is not related to this. Permalinks is tied to the [link-library] and [link-library-cats] shortcodes where you could have the latter one on a page, the first one on another page, then have Link Library automatically handle URLs including the category.

For example, you could have a list of links on /resources, then have the list of links on /resources/links, but have the category decide what to display in the URL (/resources/links/cat1)

I hope this is clear.

Wow – That is strange!

Thanks for explaining, Yannick!

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR