30 Dec Linked item.
Category: Announcement

To explain the last ‘post’; I’d like to introduce you to the linked item. It’s a tumblr-esque way of posting links to cool stuff without making a whole post. Let me know if it somehow breaks, as I’ve hacked it into WordPress myself, and I’m not much of a PHP ninja, if you know what I mean! :)

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10 Responses

  2. 1
    Kim 

    Why don’t you just use Tumblr?

  4. 2
    sebastiaan 

    For one, I love WordPress. I know it, I can host it, my themes for it work, and it has great plugins. Otherwise, I’m too lazy to switch!

  6. 3
    Cameron M. 

    Very cool feature. I’m thinking of doing something like this on one of my [unfinished] websites.

    Do you have this tied in to the ‘Links’ section in the WordPress admin? Just curious…

  8. 4
    Mark 

    Cool. But it doesn’t look like you can leave comments on a linked item? Or did you combine the next post with the linked item post?… Hope that makes sense :).

  10. 5
    Lucky 

    I don’t know if it will look good if you have more linked items without any posts between them.

  12. 6
    Eud 

    How did you go about implementing this feature in WordPress? Can you give some hints?

  14. 7
    sebastiaan 

    Yes, I was already considering a post explaining how you go about implementing such a thing.

    Once you get around to it, it’s quite easy. For a starting point, check out Lofitribe’s excellent post on making a WordPress / Tumblr hybrid, as it gives a fair indication of how much you need to do to make this work. If there’s enough interest, I’ll post how I did it myself (I used one plugin for using a custom post template for the ‘Linked’ category so the RSS doesn’t send you to something that looks like all other posts).

  16. 8
    Thomas 

    It’s a great idea and it would be great if you share your way with us. Thanks

  18. 9
    Dan Philibin 

    Not sure if you caught it but we released a tutorial over at WPCandy on how to change the RSS permalink for these types of posts. This way, you can install it as a plugin or within your theme and no WordPress hacking is required. ;)

    http://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/change-a-posts-rss-permalink-using-custom-fields.html

  20. 10
    Timothy Andrew 

    I love this idea; was thinking about implementing something like this myself.
    Would be very helpful if you could share your process.

    Thanks!

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