Mistylook – Links page

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  swoolrich · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 7:34 am

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  I wanted to do my own links page so I could use the banners some sites have.

  I created the beginning of the page using the detault template and lo! It behaves as if I’ve used the Links template. If I change the tempate to Archive then I get what I should, but it’s annoying that it will use the Links template based on the name of the page rather than me telling it to use the template.

  Full URL is: http://amuncats.wordpress.com/links/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 9:41 am

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  It’s the page title. You will have to call it something other than “links” otherwise it defaults to the links page template.

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  swoolrich · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 am

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  Grrr…. Isn’t ‘Links’ the obvious one? My creativity gland is run dry right now.

  And that only happens with themes that have a Links template I presume – which most of them don’t.

  Now a [links] shortcode would be useful! Or, come to that, Mistylook paying attention to the template. Links template = display links, any other template = don’t display the links.

  I haven’t tried a page called Links with the Contact template…

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 10:22 am

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  I’m not sure if it happens on other themes with a links template or not, but I do know it happens with Misty.

  How about Favorite Links or My Links?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 10:55 am

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  The page title can very well be “Links”: it’s the page slug that needs to be anything other than “links”.

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  swoolrich · Member · Nov 21, 2010 at 9:08 am

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  Ah ha! panaghiotisadam has provided the solution! However I’d much rather than there was a links short code that could be used in any template rather than this undocumented feature in Mistylook.