Embed LinkMan Into Wordpress Theme

thefluffyshrimp · Post by **thefluffyshrimp** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:40 pm

[Note: I haven't yet purchased LinkMan, so I don't have any information on my version, although I assume I will be receiving the newest release. I am also running Wordpress 2.7.1, although can upgrade to 2.8.4 if necessary.]

Hello,

I used the free version of LinkMan on a website of mine a long time ago and really enjoyed it. Now I'm building a new website and am thinking of purchasing it and using it on this site as well.

However, before I purchase LinkMan, I need make sure it will work with this type of site.

This particular website I'm making is a Wordpress powered site and I am trying to get all my pages to appear with the same theme.

Here is my site --> http://thefluffyshrimp.com

Now as you can see on my site, you can click on any color of your liking on the right-hand side, under "Color Schemes" to change the link color of all links on the site (ignore "Portfolio," since I haven't finished embedding that yet).

For this reason it is really important to me to be able to embed LinkMan into my Wordpress theme. How do I go about doing this?

(Ex: Is there a php "include" line or a plugin available that will allow LinkMan to be embedded into another site?)

If that is too complicated or not available, how can I get my LinkMan page to call to the CSS of my Wordpress theme?

Thank you so much for your help!

Post by **Klemen** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:00 pm

I am afraid you are on your own here. There had been some posts before about integrating the script into Wordpress, but I can't provide support for any such customizations.

DC · Post by DC » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:52 pm

LinkMan is not an includable script by default, You can mod it to make it includable as I have done for a client, however this requires some work, and as far as word press goes I am not sure, as I do not use WP but I would think if it can use a simple php include then you can mod LinkMan to be used as an include again this does take some work but it can be done.

Heres an older thread that might just help you out ...
I also do have some quick info on trying to include it.
viewtopic.php?t=2556

Forget about a direct plugin I do not know of anyone who has made a LinkMan WP plugin.

One word to the wise WP gets hacked a lot and I mean a lot and has many holes, so do make sure that you always have the newest version that is very important.

PS The name catches you. I almost thoght the site was all about little fluffy shrimp :-) so I just had to visit and findout what it realy was.

DC

thefluffyshrimp · Post by **thefluffyshrimp** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:22 am

It works FANTASTICALLY! Thank you so much for directing me to that walkthrough.

(To anyone else having trouble with this, it helps if you place the LinkMan files -- except index.php -- into the main Wordpress directory.)

My LinkMan in Wordpress: http://thefluffyshrimp.com/?page_id=9

To anyone reading this, please feel free to join my link exchange!

DC · Post by DC » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:19 am

Glad that worked to your liking however, it will still bounce you out of your site on errors, to test what I mean just hit submit and she will bounce out of your layout, you will need to mod more to fix that problem, but at least I see between my mods and the other info on the page you should be on your way to perfection.

DC

thefluffyshrimp · Post by **thefluffyshrimp** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:02 am

Thank you for the suggestion DC! How would you suggest I go about preventing it from bouncing out of the page on errors?

Thank you again for all your help and for the amazing script.

DC · Post by DC » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:51 pm

Might be a little tricky in my mod I rewrote the error handler section so that it submits back to itself but a simpler approach is just to try using the info I posted here.

viewtopic.php?p=10775#10775

Did you try any of that? I was not sure what you did to get it to the point where you have it now, a buddy of mine tried my mod and said it works pretty well in a CMS script so I would think it can work in WP as well ...

For me I am a mod maven and I neded it the way I wanted it :-) so thats why I have insainly recoded it a bit ... http://clickcraft.net/linktest2.php

you can see my mod there, test it if you will and you will see it works dif and will never bounce out of the test page it is included into, it does use some of the info that I posted in this forum to pull off that trick, just an example of what can be done with the script if you really dive into the code. the original was modified for used on my clients site.

I saw you develop sites you can just set up a dummy test dir as I did and have a seperate install of the script running, that way if you really want to mod it to perfection it can be done but will take a lot more effort and recoding and testing then can be shown here.

But as I have said in other posts the skys the limit with this script depending on and is only limited to your knowhow ...

DC