Getting Links to Show Up in WP Blog

[DavidB]

I am getting a new WordPress blog ready for an article I am writing:

RocketScientists.ca Blog

I recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.9.1, added a theme (Neptune), and tinkered with a few settings in the admin dashboard. I notice there is a "Links" section in the Dashboard in which the admin can add links and choose to have them visible or not. I saved a few links and set them to "visible", but they are still not showing up. Even the link back to the main page.

Any ideas as to why the links aren't appearing?

[ErictheBeehiveHairdresser]

Is 'links' listed in current widgets?

If not, then all you have to do is click add to the 'links' widget and place it in the spot where you want it to be within the sidebar.

Alternatively, you can create a links page, write titles of websites and hyperlink to the sites you want to have links to.

[DavidB]

Hi, Eric.

Thanks for the reply. Is links a "widget" feature? I thought it was a built-in basic feature of WordPress. When I first installed WordPress, and used the default template, I think the links worked. So now I am thinking the Neptune theme redirected or renamed a file associated with "Links", so that now WordPress cannot find it.

I know very little PHP, so going through all the pages and trying to figure it out would be a nightmare for me. Any chance you know what page WordPress refers to when displaying the links? Perhaps it is a simple matter of redirecting or renaming a couple of the pages of the Neptune theme I applied.

[ErictheBeehiveHairdresser]

Hi David,

Links is a widget and it should still be available to you no matter what theme you have. I think that most themes make you have to click a simple 'add' button to make it show up on a live blog.

Go to:

Dashboard -> Design -> Widgets

You should have two columns or rows (depending on your version of WP, but mine is in columns) that read 'available widgets' and 'current widgets.'

If you don't already have the 'links' widget showing up on the 'current widgets' section there should be a 'links' widget under 'available widgets' and it should have blue button to 'add' it. Click the 'add' button. You should now see 'links' somewhere on your list of 'current widgets.'

Check out your blog in a live form. It should have your links listed. If not, check to make sure that you have added some links to the section. It might just be empty and therefore not showing up live.

Adding a link is easy:

Dashboard -> Manage -> Links -> Add a new link


If all of this still doesn't work, you'll probably end up finding things easier to get a different theme due to some sort of combatibility issues between the Theme and WordPress than poking around in PHP or codes.

If you're really glued to the theme that you picked out, write a page, give it the title of 'links' and it should automatically show up underneath that 'About' page that you already have listed.