sidebar link images

[zach]

Hello all,

I recently installed the Link List sidebar plugin and I really like it. However, I'm not very good with XML and wanted to know if anyone knew a way that I could have little JPG/PNG icons instead of text links? If I need to, I can use a different plugin.

Basically, if anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be appreciated.

Thanks preemptively,
Zach

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sadly the linklist plugin is meant for text links only. If you want to use JPG/PNG icons to link, there's no plugin you could easily use.

Usually people install a "HTML sidebar nugget" for that. There you can dump easy html code like this:

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<a href="http://www.google.de/"><img src="http://www.google.de/icon.gif" /></a>

Maybe that helps you to do that?

Regards,
Garvin

[mgroeninger]

Garvin is right that the LinkList plugin was only designed for text links, but you might actually get it to work anyway.

I actually got it to use an image relatively easily by just replacing the name of the link with an image tag, without any quotes.

If you are using the link management page (and not entering xml directly) you can just put the image tag in the name spot. Just don't use quotes anywhere (which I believe is poor html and won't be able to do alt tags, but it works).

If you are entering xml manually you can do something like:

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<link name="<img src=http://webserver/uploads/image.gif/>" link="http://pictures.theledge.net" />

Basically, you use an encoded greater/less than.

If you have anything specific you would like feel free to post and I can take a look at it.

[zach]

Thanks for both of the suggestions. When I get back from my appointments today, I will try the HTML nugget one, and then the XML one. I really appreciate the information.