WordPress ODLinks Plugin
WordPress ODLinks Plugin Guide & Instructions
Open Directory Links (Website Directory Project) is a WordPress plugin.
ODLinks 1.4.3-a is now available.
last changes (May 2018)
last changes (15.03.2013 about: 15:00 GMT)
To display the latest xx ads in the sidebar,
you copy the following code and place it anywhere else in the sidebar.
<?php lastODLinksSidebar(8) ?>
last changes (Today 07.03.2013 about: 15:00 GMT)
– implemented the page navigation functionality
– updated to uses the thumbshots.ru for the Website screenshots
The update fixes website’s search function. [not important!]
Save your local changes (you have any) and unzip the file and overwrite existing directories and files.
| The plugin can help you to start a profitable website directory which is the same as the DMOZ.org directory.This plugin is under active development. If you experience problems, please first make sure you have installed the latest version. Feature requests, bug reports and comments can be submitted [here] 1) Click here to download the odlinks plugin last release Installing the plugin:1. Unzip the downloaded file and upload the odlinks folder to your WordPress plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/) |
You will need to make the Smarty cache and template_c folders writable (chmod 777):
Use your FTP client to change its permissions to 777.
* odlinks/includes/Smarty/cache
* odlinks/includes/Smarty/templates_c
Once you have changed the folder permissions, return to your browser, and refresh it.
Now you can submit your settings. After submission, installer process will create the tables automatically.
For your information, after submitting the settings a new page will be created with the title [[odlinks]](in upper letters) .
This title will be also added to the content of pages automatically.
Do NOT remove the page. The plugin work correctly with this page ID.
Please, you should keep the default title[[odlinks]] (in upper letters) of page to make it to work…
To uninstall and deactivate the plugin, please go to Options “uninstall” under ODLinks menu.
6. Creating/Editing a category and subcategory
– Before deploying, you should create and set-up the categories and subcategories for your Website.
– Go aheead and choose “Categories” from the ODLinks drop down menu and insert the category name and category description and then submit it.
– You can insert the subcategories by clicking on ‘Add Category’ and choosing any category name from the list in parent category. If you select root as parent category, then you create a main category.
– Create a subcategory is mandatory and required!
Depending on the “Permalink Settings” it’s possible for some pages that the categories urls are not accessible.
To fix this problem you should go to update the .htaccess file which is exised under wordpress top directory.
Normaly if you click on categories you will get something like this:
<yourDomain>/odlinks/?_action=main&id=2&parent=1
If insteaed of the “/odlinks/” somthing elses is placed for example “/97-revision-v1/”
you can upadte your the .htaccess file as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^97-revision-v1/?([^/]*)?/?(.*)$ /index.php?pagename=odlinks=$1=$2 [QSA,L,R,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
How can we display the latest xx ads in the sidebar?
You copy the following code and place it anywhere in the sidebar.php located in active theme folder.
<?php lastODLinksSidebar(8) ?>
This guide will show you the step by step process for first installation/configuring
Demo:
Test ODLinks (Open Directory Links) OR odlinks.com
Questions and Examples of Use
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Why the main site gives me the 404 or Not Found error message or I cannot see the “Submitt a link”?
This usually occurs only when using a custom permalink structure (like /%category%/%postname%/).
This is a .htaccess 404 error message and you should update your .htaccess file in the WP root directory.
Normally you should not edit the htaccess, the Permalink link will be detect by plugin automatically.
Please install the CURL module for PHP.
Todo:
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1) how to make the search works?
2) can i edit these “Submitting your website URL link to our free online web directory
This will help you to get high quality traffic back to your site and increase your link popularity.” wordings?
thanks in advance.
—>correct, You Have Rights. We need a language file. I forget it. I start to implement it now Thanks.
– implemented english language file done.
svn upload just finished
how can i make page rank working
because i add one site with page rank 3 and still page rank 0 in table
–> correct, the google has been added a new API since 2 month.
I fix the file and upload on svn.
here you can please download the file here and copy/replace it in the wp-content/plugins/odlinks/includes directory
Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/wp-content/plugins/odlinks/language/lang_en.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\odlinks\odl_control.php on line 155
—> Sorry, Download the plugin and install it again
or download the language here
https://forgani.com/upload/language.zip
Warning: require_once(/home/xxx/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/odlinks/language/lang_en.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/odlinks/odl_control.php on line 155
—> Sorry, I forgot to commit the laguage directory in to svn.
ypu download the plugin again or download the language here language.zip (https://forgani.com/upload/language.zip)
I am loving the plugin and it has worked well. I have one problem and I’m hoping you can help. If you follow this link: http://pgnew.com/odlinks/?_action=main&id=56&parent=0 you will see that most of the links work well. However, under “Texas” and then “Paralegal Associations” the page will not load and on some browsers it actually distorts my template. California has had a problem too. Both of these States have 17 + links associated with them. It seems the more links per folder, it slows down or won’t load, etc. I do need a response if possible since I am attempting to redesign my site. Would love to continue using your plugin if possible and have already put quite a bit of time in loading all these links.
Much thanks in advance for your assistance.
—> California showing fine in Firefox form my site. For Texas maybe the error available in the apache error log can help me.
or you create a new subcategory in category Texas and move some links form the “Paralegal Associations” in to the new subcategory and test it again.
I need to import more than 100 new companies to the directory. Is it possible?
–>
Yes, the import is simple.
if imported from a mysql database, the importing can be done via some sql query.
Importing the data from a text file is tricky and can be done by a simple perl script.
January 29, 2010:
I had to make a second folder called “Paralegal Associations 2” and transfer 8 links there. Just doesn’t make sense. I guess I can use it this way but would really rather have all the links in one folder. I didn’t see any error messages or else I would have sent them.
January 2010, 22:00
I am loving the plugin and it has worked well. I have one problem and I’m hoping you can help. If you follow this link: http://pgnew.com/odlinks/?_action=main&id=56&parent=0 you will see that most of the links work well. However, under “Texas” and then “Paralegal Associations” the page will not load and on some browsers it actually distorts my template. California has had a problem too. Both of these States have 17 + links associated with them. It seems the more links per folder, it slows down or won’t load, etc. I do need a response if possible since I am attempting to redesign my site. Would love to continue using your plugin if possible and have already put quite a bit of time in loading all these links.
Much thanks in advance for your assistance.
—> California showing fine in Firefox form my site. For Texas maybe the error available in the apache error log can help me.
or you create a new subcategory in category Texas and move some links form the “Paralegal Associations” in to the new subcategory and test it again.
HI
I get an error404 when I try to access the categories. The adress also include som/635-revision/ like,
/635-revision/?_action=main&id=7&parent=0
My htaccess file llok like this: ( slug name is, lenkekatalog)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule !^(classified|lenkekatalog)/ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule lenkekatalog/([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/?([^/\(\)]*)/? /index.php?pagename=lenkekatalog&_action=$1&id=$2&parent=$3 [QSA,L,R,NS]
</IfModule>
how can I order the links in the categroy-page by title?
THe order is by date but I need by title.
jh
I installed this on wp3.0 beta 1 on a subdomain which was created as one of the sub-blogs using wp3.0 multi-site feature. the engine basically is wpmu core. I found that I can’t save the settings no matter how many time I tried (meaning, when I come back or refresh the setting page, the fields’ parameters are gone eventhough it showed successfully saved). the only parameter that successfully saved is the slug (which I changed into ‘links’).
one more thing is I think I’m a bit confused about why there’re 3 pages of same settings page which located at:
Tools > ODLinks
ODLinks > ODLinks
ODLinks > ODLinks Settings
And I also don’t really sure if the htaccess work. the last time I checked, I got the 404 error eventhough I had edited the htaccess as per instruction. I just wonder if this has any connection with the unsaved settings on backend. I don’t understand a bit about htaccess and how it works though, and I really appreciate any feedback if anybody had tried the same thing using wp3.0. Thanks