WordPress, Version 4.6?

> What might be causing this failure?

FWIW: LL must have completed installation successfully because there are two new items in the left-hand margin of the Dashboard: Links & Link Library. (One of them, “Links”, was there before I disabled LM.)

I’m still uncertain, however, because LL is displaying the Link Categories that I defined in LM using the same panel that LM displayed. Is that the expected behavior?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> FWIW: LL must have completed installation successfully because there
> are two new items in the left-hand margin of the Dashboard: Links &
> Link Library. (One of them, “Links”, was there before I disabled LM.)

LL 5.9.13 seems to be working despite the complaints during installation. e.g., I’ve inserted a few of the LL shortcodes into a page and they’re displaying correctly, AFAICT.

Next: I’m going to install the “My Link Order” plugin. ??

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

> Next: I’m going to install the “My Link Order” plugin. ??

From this LL support thread:
> > The “My Link Order” plug in no longer seems to be available…
> >
> There will be [an alternate solution] down the road. I am working on
> the next-generation of the plugin and direct ordering is something I
> am looking into.

When do you think that direct ordering will be complete, Yannick?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

Sometimes I forget to read all the way to the bottom:

Yannick wrote:
> Actually, there is a way to order categories. You need to go
> under the General Options and set ‘category selection method’
> to ‘comma-separated ID list’. Then, go to library settings, under
> common, and you will see that the list of categories to be
> displayed has changed to a list of category IDs. You can then
> decide on the order of the categories by adding them in a
> specific order.

aenea wrote:
> There’s one more step in addition to those you describe – also
> need to go to Library Settings | Categories and change the
> Results Order to ‘Order of categories based on included category
> list’. And, with that done, it works a treat! Many thanks.

Yannick wrote:
> Oh yes, sorry. Forgot about that step. Glad you figured it out.

Thanks, Yannick – That worked perfectly!

I’ll make a contribution very soon. Thank you for all of your amazing [and hard] work!

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR

Hi Eric, glad to see you were able to get the plugin up and running through conversations in this support forum.

The new version I am working on is not moving as fast as I would like, but I am still hoping to have it out before the end of the year.

One thing I should mention is that although My Link Order can no longer be found in the plugin directory since the author asked for it to deactivated, it can still be downloaded from the WordPress plugin SVN:

https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/my-link-order/trunk/

Last I checked (in WP 4.5 I think), it still worked correctly.

Thanks in advance for upcoming contribution to the plugin’s development.

Thanks, Yannick:

LL is working nicely but I did find these errors in the Apache error_log:

> [Sat Aug 20 00:23:44 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_linkcategorymeta ADD UNIQUE KEY (meta_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->
> ll_install, link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings,
> dbDelta, referer: https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugin-
> install.php?s=Link+library&tab=search&type=term

What do you make of that?

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR
>
> [Sat Aug 20 00:30:05 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_links_extrainfo ADD UNIQUE KEY (link_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->ll_install,
> link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings, dbDelta, referer:
> https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_
> status=all&paged=1&s
>
> [Sat Aug 20 00:30:05 2016] [warn] [client 24.22.63.252] mod_fcgid:
> stderr: WordPress database error Incorrect index name ” for query
> ALTER TABLE 8J4wo_linkcategorymeta ADD UNIQUE KEY (meta_id)
> made by activate_plugin, do_action(‘activate_link-library/link-
> library.php’), call_user_func_array, link_library_plugin->ll_install,
> link_library_plugin->create_table_and_settings, dbDelta, referer:
> https://practicalxenserver.org/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_
> status=all&paged=1&s

WordPress: 4.6
Link Library: 5.9.13
Theme: Twenty Fourteen
PHP: 5.6.24

> PHP 5.6.24 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jul 22 2016 11:59:12)
> Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
> with the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection
> from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) v5.0.18, Copyright (c)
> 2002-2015, by ionCube Ltd.
> with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend
> Technologies

Can you try to deactivate and reactivate the plugin and see if you get these errors again?

Yannick:

While re-installing the site I noticed that most other plugins that I installed created the same error message. I’m not sure if it’s the version of PHP that I’m using, the CGI module that I’m using, or something on the server that I’m using.

I’m just gonna mark this problem as “resolved”.

Eric Pretorious
Portland, OR