Advanced Blogroll Widget

21 Aralık 2008

Standard blogroll widget doesn't allow you customize displaying your bookmarks. Advanced blogroll widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize everything about your blogroll.

Installation and Usage

Download the zip file and extract the contents.
Upload the 'advanced-blogroll' folder to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/).
Activate the plugin through the 'plugins' page in WordPress.
See 'Design'->'Widgets' to place it on your sidebar. Set the settings
If you add the following CSS codes to your style.css, your bookmarks' images will have a transparent hover effect like images on my sidebar (see Bağlantılar caption on sidebar):
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code
1. .ab_images a, .ab_images a:hover {
2. text-decoration: none;
3. }
4. .ab_images a img {
5. filter:alpha(opacity=60);
6. -moz-opacity: 0.6;
7. opacity: 0.6;
8. border:none;
9. }
10. .ab_images a:hover img {
11. filter:alpha(opacity=100);
12. -moz-opacity: 1.0;
13. opacity: 1.0;
14. }
If you don't use the widgets or if you use it in your template, please add the following code anywhere. Of course, don't forget change the parameters as you want.
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code
1. $parameters = array(
2. 'category' => 0,
3. 'showform' => 1,
4. 'orderby' => 'name',
5. 'order' => 'ASC',
6. 'width' => 30,
7. 'height' => 30,
8. 'num' => 0,
9. 'nofollow' => false
10. );
11. yg_adv_blogroll( $parameters );
Parameters
category (integer): If you want to show links of a specific category, write its cat_ID. The default is 0 - All categories.
showform (integer): How links will display. Valid values: 0 - Only names (default), 1 - Only Images, 2 - Images with Names.
orderby (string): Sort bookmarks by name, ID, url or randomly. The default is sort by name. Valid values: name - default, id, url, random.
order (string): Sort order for bookmarks (either ascending or descending). The default is ascending. Valid values: ASC - default, DESC.
width (integer): Width of image. At least 16px.
height (integer): Height of image. At least 16px.
num (integer): Number of bookmark to display. 0 - All bookmarks.
nofollow (boolean): Add rel='nofollow' to links or not. Valid values: false (default), true.

If you use these codes, don't forget style it with CSS.

Screenshots

Widget's settings with default values in Design'->'Widgets'

Your blogroll with only names

Your blogroll with only images

Your blogroll with images and names

Adding image to your bookmark

FAQ

How can i format my blogroll?
You can use 'ab_bookmarks' CSS class to format your bookmarks list and you can use 'ab_images' CSS class to format your list with only images.

Options

Widget's options allow you to change your blogroll's displaying.
Title - Your blogroll's title on your sidebar.
Category - Category of your bookmarks you want to list.
Order by - What you want to order by
Order - How you want to order
Display Form - How to display your bookmarks. With only names, only images, images and names.
Image Width - Your bookmarks' image width.
Image Height - Your bookmarks' image height.
Number of Bookmarks to Show - How many bookmarks you want to show.
Add rel = "nofollow" to bookmarks - Allows add rel = "nofollow" to your bookmarks.

Version history

1.2 - Adding Russian Language support. Thanks Fatcow
1.1 - Adding Rating Sort - Adding link description to link title
1.0 - Plugin released

Download

Advanced Blogroll 1.2

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