Setting Up a Links Page

Posted by Bryan on September 10, 2009 under Setting up Pages | Be the First to Comment

WordPress offers an excellent way to catalog helpful links. In many WordPress-powered sites, these links are displayed on the entire site in a widget in the sidebar or footer. There may be many reasons you don’t want all of these links displayed on every page – it may affect your search engine rankings and it may simply not match the overall intent of your site. So the solution is to have a single page where all links are displayed.

The Ministry Theme includes a file called “links-page.php.” This file automatically calls up the links you’ve cataloged, divides them by category, and displays the description you’ve typed in. To set it up…

1. Create a new page and title it “Links” or something that will look good in your top menu.

2. Leave the content area blank.

3. Scroll down and click on “Page Template.” You’ll see an option to select the “Links” template.

4. Publish the page.

5. Start cataloging links. That’s it!