[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21307: Remove Link Manager from core

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#21307: Remove Link Manager from core
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |
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Changes (by avcascade):

 * cc: avcascade@… (added)


Comment:

 Why does Link Manager need to be removed from core? Why not keep it, but
 allow it to be disabled? That, to me, is the best solution... though if I
 had my druthers, I wouldn't mess with Link Manager at all. Don't "fix"
 what isn't broken.

 The Link Manager has been part of WordPress for a long time. It makes
 blogrolls and link lists easy to manage and it's totally theme-
 independent.

 I appreciate that not everyone uses it. But then, that's true for other
 functionality within WordPress as well. Many people are using WordPress to
 build sites that are somewhat static in nature (meaning content doesn't
 change often). A majority of WP sites out there right now many not have
 any posts, or at least no other posts besides the default "Hello, world!"
 Does that mean we should take the blogging aspects of WordPress out of
 core, and put them into a plugin? No way.

 I think it makes sense for tools like importers to be officially-
 maintained plugins (with the exception of the WordPress importer, which I
 think could reasonably belong in core). But I don't support making Link
 Manager into a plugin. Let's keep it in core. We should provide an option
 to enable or disable it, but let's not scrap it.

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