How to Activate Link Manager in WordPress 3.5!

This version is the latest release of WordPress and introduces a lot of new features, and unusually for WordPress, a removal of a feature.

If you install WordPress 3.5 from scratch – without an update from an earlier version, you will no longer have the Links Manager and blogroll. Considered outdated and out of step with aspects of WordPress CMS, this link management tool can be easily reactivated in WordPress 3.5. With WordPress Links Manager you were able to store a set of external links, or better known as blogrolls.

These link you can put inside categories, they can be imported or exported, deleted… Since the plugin does not contain a line of code, I suggest you to copy/paste directly into functions.php file of your theme, or better yet, to use global functions file (to avoid dependence of the theme).

That’s why we will show you how to activate Link Manager again and use it on your blog. Just paste this code into your functions.php file, and you’re done!

<?php

	//Activate the Link Manager built in to the WordPress admin
	add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );

?>

Note that the module will also disappear if you update your WordPress to newer version.

In the context of a blog, the module “Links” is very useful and help bloggers promote websites and other blogs they like. And you, what do you think of this change and removal for WordPress Links Manager from latest version of WordPress?

Thanks to Tim Berneman for this tip!

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