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Someonce contacted the author regarding a different plugin that he had created. The resulting reply leads one to believe that he or she may have no further interest in plugin development for WordPress. I may be wrong, but that’s the way it looks.

It’s not working in WP 1.5.1.2 either. I don’t get the checkbox at all. It’s being completely ignored by the add_filter routine.

This is such a useful thing – is it possible to integrate it into the core code? I realize that may be asking a lot.

The plug wouldn’t work anyway. The no-hotlinking feature would block the plugin’s operation as well.

As I understand it – hotlink blocking works because the page is built and sent through Apache to a browser, which can tell whether or not it is seeing a browser due to the invisible header traffic.

A plugin wouldn’t send the appropriate headers (without way too much extra work and overhead), so Apache would deny the request for the image and instead give you the fickle finger of fate.

I could be wrong on that. Please feel free to expand or correct as necessary. I agree with the majority of sentiment expressed, though, and think Satoshi’s method is probably the best for now.

As I understand it, ‘Pages’ and ‘Links’ are two different things. Pages appear to be static pages within the site, but Links can point either within or without. There is no way to combine the two.

Now, Links would work, except that you can only sort within Link Categories, but Categories themselves do not sort. So one couldn’t have an artificial ‘Pages’ category within Links appear <i>before</i> Blogroll category.

Perhaps I’m applying a stricter definition than was intended.

Ignore that last. It is relevant, but I explained it better in another post.

I think it could be enhanced by adding the ability to link to an already built static page. Basically, one would need to add a URL field to the wp_posts table. If data was entered in the URL field one could then disable the content field thru Javascript to disallow any further content adding (since it would never be seen).

I mentioned this in a different post, but staring at the code it is a fairly simple fix. Unfortunately, there is no elegant way to do this in a plugin (that I can see).

Why not a modification to “Create New Page” where one could enter a URL instead of page content? The remaining fields wouldn’t have any effect on it, but some could be useful. Page Title would function as the title for the page in the Pages list and Page order would let WP know how to sort it.