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Any useful hints as to how I'd go about creating a "links" database of sorts are welcome. It feels like a whee bit overkill to use one blog "page" (blog item really I guess) per link; although that's the only way I've been able to figure out that'll also give me usage of categories.

I'm going to do something about like this in 0.8--you're talking about how people have a daily links (or similar) sidebar item, such as annevankesteren.nl or katieweb.com, right? I think what they did is actually install another copy of their blog software (they both use WP, IIRC) and the sidebar works off an RSS feed. Until I write the code, you could always do that. It wouldn't really be overkill since the links wouldn't be displayed as individual entries...

I'm talking about that also. But one of my concerns is to have something like a sidebar block that says "Link"; which, when the title is clicked will bring me to a non-blog place on my site, or at least a place where each entry doesn't take up so much vertical space.

If the sidebar block also includes things like the five most popular, and/or the five most recently added entries, that's fine. But I have the need of some sort of links collection/links database; and posting these as separate Blog entries really eats up the vertical space available on the page.

How about using Romulus' static page plugin with an HTML nugget?

Aye.. but then the interface to collect, categorize and organize the links.
I know I'm probably asking too much.. but it'd be nice to have a piece of software that is _mainly_ a blog, but _also_ some other things commonly found on a website, such as links, biographies, photos..

As it is now, I'll have to fiddle with more than one package to get a nice gallery and then link to the gallery from my blog postings, etc.

PHP programming is not a problem at all, but why re-invent the wheel ?