We’ve been reading through the documentation and watched a video, and gone through all the options in the Dashboard, but whenever we try adding links to the Blog Roll or ‘Blogs I follow’ section, they never appear on my blog.
How do you add favorite links/links to blogs to the side of the blog?
There are two ways to get what you want.
Link Manager
Go to
wp-admin/link-manager.php, add a new link and enable the Links widget inwp-admin/widgets.phpin one of your sidebars.However, the link manager will be removed in the next version (WP 3.5). It will be converted to a plugin. I would not rely on it.
Custom Menu
Create a new custom menu in
wp-admin/nav-menus.php, name it ⦠Links and add custom links to it. Donât forget to press Save. 🙂Now go to
wp-admin/widgets.php, enable the widget Custom Menu and activate the Links menu.This will not change any time soon. I asked for it and I was told there are no plans to touch the widgets for 3.5.
The widget method is a decent method, but hand-coding the sidebar is my preferred technique, because it lets you easily change the order, any rel=”nofollow/dofollow” settings, titles, etc.
It’s pretty simple, all you have to do is make a list using the link’s < a > tags within < li > tags, paste the code in the sidebar file, and use the CSS file to style it (if you have a “sidebar” section in the CSS, be sure to put the styling in there so you can find it again).
Since this method doesn’t use a widget, it also gives the server a little less to do.