[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2499: Rework Link Categories

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#2499: Rework Link Categories
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       Id:  2499            |      Status:  new                     
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Thu Feb 23 11:14:36 2006
 Severity:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.1                     
 Priority:  low             |     Version:  2.0.1                   
    Owner:  ryan            |    Reporter:  ryan                    
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Comment (by markjaquith):

 Seems broken.

 It would work like this: if a new link was added to that category, all
 other links in that category wouuld switch to being invisible.  The reason
 you can't just say "limit 1" and have it work the same way is that there
 is no way to sort links by date added (because there is no date field for
 links), so this toggle was a way to rig it to work, but only for one post.

 I actually used it for a client about a year ago.  She wanted a rotating
 "link of the week feature" at the top of her sidebar.  I used the toggle
 feature and whenever she added a new link, the old one would go invisible.

 I think if we add a date field to the links, there will be no need for
 this toggle, as you'll just be able to limit it to showing 1 link and sort
 by date DESC.

 Actually, it would be really cool if the links had full date
 functionality... one could use it to run their own linklog in-house
 without resorting to hacks to get WP posts to do it.  I may have submitted
 a ticket for this way back in the day.

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