Shortcode for blogroll/links in Pages

  • Unknown's avatar
    stormvisions · Member ·

    In the absence of tags or categories for pages I wondered if you might create a short code that would allow us to output links by category. Something like this

    I tried this manually just pasting a search string in as links as an alternative to the missing tags i.e.

    //mysite.com/?s=search+terms

    which works but manually editing that html on each page would be a pain to maintain. I figure creating link categories and links would be an acceptable workaround if there is some security reason Pages can’t have tags/categories link the blog pages.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • Unknown's avatar
    stormvisions · Member ·

    clarification: the items I point to with red arrow are links. i.e.

    Characters > Character description page
    Johnny Apple > Goes to specific character’s page

    so

    Category
    Link

  • Unknown's avatar
    stormvisions · Member ·

    Hmm… actually just found the Display Posts shortcode and will experiment to see if I can get what I want with that.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Let us know if that particular shortcode works for you!

  • Unknown's avatar
    stormvisions · Member ·

    It doesn’t seem to be what I want though it is interesting.

    Basically I have some non-sequential chapters. I thought I would add an information or summary box that would list some basic data associated with that chapter i.e.

    characters – what characters appear in the chapter
    location – where does it take place
    etc

    So the data has to be associated with the page in a

    Group
    Item
    Item

    type setup.

    It looks like your Category or Links would allow that type of relationship but not able to add them to the page. The tags are already in the page code but I don’t see how they can be output to a page

    I suppose I can look at rebuilding the site with posts instead of pages to use the Categories.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    I suppose I can look at rebuilding the site with posts instead of pages to use the Categories.

    For sure – but either way, I’ll submit your idea to our development team and see if it is a feature they would like to add. Thank you for the suggestion and if I hear back from them, I will be sure to let them know.

    Thanks,

  • Unknown's avatar
    stormvisions · Member ·

    Thank you. I checked out the Posts as well but can’t quite get there. I’ll create a template and use static html for now but appreciate you passing it on.

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    No problem at all. We appreciate the suggestion!

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