Suggestion: add feature to blog themes that allows for a separate page 4 links

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  jennr2014 · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 6:14 am

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  The Choco Theme has a feature that allows me to put links together on a separate page. I’m able to use the “link” widget or use the page w/the Links Template … and it sure is nice.

  I’ve used Choco Theme to create link-blogs for my blogs. Example: Jenn’s Table which is by way of the “companion blog” Just Put The Pan On The Table

  As far as I know, Choco Theme is the only theme that does this.

  Thanks for the format to suggest this.

  Jenn R.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 12, 2013 at 6:22 am

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  a) It’s not the only theme. See this post of mine:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/archives-and-links-templates/
  b) Creating the links in Links > Add New then creating a page to display them via the links template is a needlessly roundabout way: if you want your links on a page, you just create the page and add links to it, no matter what the theme.

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  jennr2014 · Member · Jul 13, 2013 at 11:39 am

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  Glad to see the list of other themes that use the Page Attribute/Template/Links and the notes you added. Before I settled on Watson (purchase) and Delicacy, for two separate blogs, I switched themes quite a bit. That list will help in the future, and offers me some choices for my use of the feature.

  What I like about Choco’s feature is what you also mentioned in the post you referenced, that when created via a Page, the Page picks up the Categorizes and posts them onto the Page in a list under each specified Category, so I don’t have to manually categorize the Links on the typed page. I have (hidden now) a bunch of indexes I created via Pages … I might utilize the feature in Choco (or other similar theme) for them b/c it’s so much easier.

  Thanks again,
  JennR

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  justpi · Member · Jul 13, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Naturally I meant that it’s faster to create a page and add your links to it when you think of this from the start, not when you already have a lot of links in Links > All Links. In that case, the fast way to simulate the links template on any theme is temporarily add the Links widget, visit your blog and select View Source, copy the complete sourcecode of the widget, paste it into the Text (=code) editor of a regular static page.

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  jennr2014 · Member · Jul 14, 2013 at 2:54 am

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  Oh, just knew there might be a way to do that. Same way as doing the categories … okay. Thanks! (I just might give up categorizing on the page?? Maybe.) Thanks, again.
  Jenn R