Wordpress ODLinks Plugin

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WordPress ODLinks Plugin

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Open Directory Project

Links-Open Directory (Website Directory Project) is a WordPress plugin
The plugin 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 package and upload the odlinks folder into your WordPress plugins folder
2. Log into your WordPress admin panel
3. Go to Plugins and “Activate” the plugin
3. “OD-Links Admin” will now be displayed in your Options section under Manage.
4. For first step instructions, go to Options “ODLINKS Settings”

Once you submit the Settings page of ODLinks it will set off the process of installing its tables and setting up its default settings.

5. Go to create and modify your Categories and Sub Categories under “ODLINKS Structure”
You will need to make the Smarty cache folders writable (chmod 777) :

./odlinks/includes/Smarty/cache
./odlinks/includes/Smarty/templates_c

Create some child category. It is not possible to post to the parent category.

Demo:

Test ODLinks (Open Directory Links) right now ;) OR wpcareers.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.
The htaccess is a way to add the category name to the url or display the post title in the blog url.

An example for htaccess code to redirect to odlinks
You need an .htaccess file. The file will be create/modify by wordpress via the Permalink/mod-rewrite option.

Please edit the .htaccess file in the root folder of your WordPress.
You use the default .htaccess file and modify the file as follow:
The redirect should look something like this

#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule !^(classified|odlinks)/ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule odlinks/([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/? /index.php?pagename=odlinks&_action=$1&id=$2&parent=$3 [QSA,L,R,NS]

Todo:

- included language files

Chang log:

Changes Nov 12/2008 v. 0.5
- implement the bookmark & sent to his friend’s button
- edit/move categories
- implement the conformation code (captcha)
Changes Oct 13/10/2008
- admin email notification
- include the Google AdSense

110 Responses to “WordPress ODLinks Plugin”

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admin, 9. July 2010, 8:54

Hi, a bit strangely for me.
follow the link sent by email and you click on the “Approve Button” on the top of the page. A new page will be shown and you see the message “Newly submitted links ready to be approved: ” correct ?
Nicholas, 4. July 2010, 12:15

Hi Unfortunately nothing ,
I am receiving the approval link email when a user submits but no links are there to be approved

—> Admin Panel -> ODLINKS -> ODLINKS Links -> Approve Button
you see the “post is awaiting approval”
Nicholas hall, 30. June 2010, 8:50

Hi there!

Great script. Unfortunately im having a problem with adding links.
Every time i have a link submitted it don’t get entered into the database our come up for approval. The only way i have been able to add links is if i ad them directly to the database.

You help with this solution would be greatly appreciated.
Mikk, 28. June 2010, 9:58

Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for the great plugin!

Suddenly I discovered that ODLinks plugin is in inactive mode. When I try to activate it, then I got following message:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Warning: require_once(/home/content/63/5158863/html/wp-content/plugins/odlinks/includes//odl_functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/63/5158863/html/wp-content/plugins/odlinks/odl_control.php on line 96

Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Best regards,
Mikk
Shawn, 25. June 2010, 10:12

Hi Mohammed – I appreciate the help.

Just another question – how do I get the thumbnail to show as part of the listing? I.e. I want it to appear without having to hover over the icon. I can see how you’ve got the thumbnails to display below – I just want each thumbnail to display as part of the listing.

regards
Shawn
amir, 21. June 2010, 15:59

I searched for this issue but didn’t see any thing.
may be can the following site help you:
http://www.christianschenk.org/blog/removing-wordpress-generator-meta-tag-completely/

now I saw the problem. It’s come up with the new version of wordpress.
To disappear please add the following two lines to the bottom of ‘odl_control.php’ file.
///////////////
function rm_generator_filter() { return ”; }
add_filter(‘the_generator’, ‘rm_generator_filter’);
//////////////
Regards,
Mohammad
Shawn, 21. June 2010, 9:50

Hi, I’m having the same problem as Navan with the “http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0″ appearing below the title? How do I remove it?
Ian, 17. June 2010, 12:08

Hi,

Plugin gives a 500 internal server error. I’ve narrowed this error down to the plugin not allowing more than 2 levels in the directory hierarchy e.g. Asia > Japan > Niseko would break, but Asia > Japan would work

I’d imagine this is something to do with the PHP files included in the plugin, but I’m not experienced enough to go about debugging it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
———————
Hi, Have you looked in the Apache error log to see if a more specific error was generated?

Regards

Thanks
navan, 17. June 2010, 6:41

hello sir.

thank you very much for cool tools,

today I havh problem ,

How to remove “WordPress version(http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC1)” from under title.

Please help me :) .

Thank you.
cina, 20. May 2010, 7:39

Hi, I am not sure but I think in general setting exists an option to change the default odlinks URL after install.