WordPress Plugin - Community Links Feed

Community Links Feed plugin for WordPress allows your blog or website’s community users to submit their favorite links to your website. Upon submission, the community links appear in the Dashboard where the administrator can approve or reject them as appropriate. Once approved, the community links feed appears in a customizable sidebar widget.

You can customize the Community Links Feed widget from the plugin settings page in Dashboard where you can:

Change the widget heading
Change the widget description
Choose whether to include rel=”nofollow” in community feed links submitted by your users
Change the length of link title or description

Easy Installation

Upload cj-community-links folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ page in WordPress.
Add the widget to your sidebar from Appearance->Widgets.
Configure the widget from Settings->Community Links.

Screenshots

Theme Settings

Manage Links

The Widget - This will be displayed as per your blog style

Submit Link Panel

Download

Please download the plugin files (cj-community-links.zip — 36 KB) in ZIP format using the button below:

View Live Demo

Help & Support

Please visit our Google Group to report any bugs or request more features.

IMPORTANT: If you are facing blank page issues with this plug-in and have WP-Cache Plug-in installed, try the steps listed here on DailyBlogTips.com . I hope this will help.

I am sure you’ll love Community Links Feed Plugin and find it of great use on your website. Please use the comments form to let me know how do you like it. Your valuable feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

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Mohit is a freelance web designer/developer based in Chandigarh India. He founded CSSJockey.com on Jan 01, 2009, since then he is serving clients from all over the world. Follow on Twitter | Connect via Facebook | Read more »

124 Responses to “Community Links Feed – WordPress Plugin”

14 Jul, 2010

Web Design says:

First, love the plugin, love the concept, just what I’ve been looking for. I’ve reviewed the code, the CSS in particular. Looking to find out where the images ( icons ) are hosted. I cannot find them in any of the files, accept the form background -the only part I’m not interested in changing. Looking to change out the submission, view, submit, more buttons into something much larger. Also do you have a quick fix for auto populating the front end? Seeing as how they have to go through a spam technique. Almost as if they link is treated like a micro blog ( i.e. twitter )

Anyone help jockey -or anyone on the thread?

Thank you so much for your work and free support. You will definitely get a fist pump and credit link from WebsiteDesignr.com

23 Jun, 2010

Deborah Lipp says:

We are enjoying this plugin. Two users report they get an error at line 9 when attempting to submit links. Other users are okay and can submit. I cannot figure out what the issue is.

Spam is a big problem!

I would like the ability to bulk approve & bulk delete submitted links. One at a time is cumbersome.

24 Jun, 2010

CSSJockey says:

I’ll be updating this plug-in as soon as I get some free time and try to add these options. Thanks for your suggestions.

22 Jun, 2010

Stephen says:

I download a new theme on my website. And when I download this plugin, all the fonts are like the same as my website and I don’t want that. Is it possible to change it?

22 Jun, 2010

CSSJockey says:

You can change the font styles in the CSS file located in the plug-in folder.

18 Jun, 2010

iDorian says:

Hi, I’m experiencing a slash issue when I use apostrophes (or inverted commas, or quotation marks, call it how you want lol).

I guess it comes from the reason why I don’t use English, but French to add links (a language where apostrophes are everywhere). Could you please help me out allowing them ?!

Thanks by advance !

P.S. : there’s a mistake in your CSS file, the should be in order to work properly. I double checked !

16 Jun, 2010

Stephen Leung says:

Is there a way I can pull the code out of the widget and place it on a single page, like a page where all the user links are submitted. And then a form underneath?

16 Jun, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Check the plug-in settings, you can specify a page ID to call the links on a certain page, however the adding the links will work as a dialog..

23 Jun, 2010

Stephen says:

Thank you for answering all my questions so far, but I have one more. How do I specify a page ID? What code is needed? Like I just need to place a php code on a page but I don’t want it to clash with my about page.

24 Jun, 2010

CSSJockey says:

In the plugin settings you have an option to specify the page ID to include the links and forms..

15 Jun, 2010

Paul Olyslager says:

Forgot to mark the “notify me of followup comments” Sorry

15 Jun, 2010

Paul Olyslager says:

Hi, first of all I would like to thank you for this nice plugin. I was wondering if you found already the time to make this work without the widget, so just a shortcode?

Thanks!

16 Jun, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Paul, You can call the plug-in on a page by specifying an ID in the plug-in settings. I’ll be working on the updates next month possibly and will try to add the short-code feature for sure..

17 Jun, 2010

Paul Olyslager says:

That is great news, looking forward in testing it out. By the way, I can’t seem to close the “submit link popup” in Safari 5.0?

09 Jun, 2010

Mitch says:

is that possible to displaying any guest-news (that has been approved by admin) on a single page in a specific category (e.g News)..? just like Designrfix do this way as example – http://designrfix.com/news/30-sample-company-letterhead-design-pieces-for-inspiration and then “guest custom url” will be set on view source or read more..?

Thank you so much

15 May, 2010

Andrei Oprinca says:

This plugin is great but I have a little problem. When I click the Add link on the sidebar widget, form opens and it sticks to the bottom of the page. I can’t see the spam countermeasure and the submit button. I tried it on Firefox and IE and I get the same thing. I also tried with different themes and I still cant find out How to fix it.

I tried to look ad the code but I don’t know much about PHP so I can’t do anything.

Here is a picture of how it looks: http://www.psdbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/link_feed.jpg

16 May, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Try changing the styles positioning from absolute to fixed of the main container of this panel. I hope this helps.

16 May, 2010

Andrei Oprinca says:

that worked perfectly. On the “theme.css” I changed the “cjsubmitform” position from “fixed” to absolute and now the form loads on the middle of the page and it’s fully visible.

Thank you so much for the help

16 May, 2010

CSSJockey says:

My pleasure

07 May, 2010

Joxpa says:

HEY HOW TO INSTALL IN A THEME WITH OUT WIDGETS????

THANKS !

16 May, 2010

CSSJockey says:

There’s an option to have this setup on a single page.. Check the plug-in options and you will find out how..

06 May, 2010

Vincent says:

Can you call the function to the sidebar or do you have to use the widget..?

16 May, 2010

CSSJockey says:

If you are good at PHP and WordPress, you can copy the function code and make a custom widget or shortcode. To enable shortcode in the sidebar widgets don’t forget to add this the filter to text widget.

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

28 Apr, 2010

Schrumpfschlauch says:

Great great work and very nice plugin. I like it and thenks for your work.

01 Mar, 2010

Mark says:

What a bummer. Came back after a couple weeks to find that the new release is not yet out.

If someone can tell me how to modify the code to only allow contributors or higher to submit, please let me know.

12 Feb, 2010

Romeo says:

Hi,
first of all thanks a lot for this Plugin but i’m having little problems with it. I open a thread in the support forum. Hoppe to get an answer from you.

Thanks in advance.

Link to Forumi: http://support.cssjockey.com/topic/i-dont-want-ajax-loading

11 Feb, 2010

arfandia says:

i think this plugin can make invite spammer

rgds
Template Blog

09 Feb, 2010

Bong says:

Here’s the tip: The only way to avoid the spammers. You must activate askimet plugin or let the visitors to register so they can earn this wonderful plugin.

24 Jan, 2010

Mark says:

With excitement last night I activated your plugin. This morning I had 80 spams, so I had to deactivate it. There is no other choice.

Suggestions:

1. Of course integrate a tough anti-spam measure

2. Allow only registered users to add links. This could be an easy fix for me.

In addition, regarding #2, it would be every handy to have in the plugin options the ability to add some text that would show up just under the widget title. I’d like to be able say, “only registered users can add links.”

There are other ways but you get the idea.

25 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Hi Mark, Thanks for your inputs. I’ll add these features and release the new version very soon.

15 Feb, 2010

Mark says:

I’m replying to myself, but it relates to my comment. If anyone can tell me how to simply make the entry only work for users above a certain level, I could use the plugin right away. Should be some simple hack right?

23 Jan, 2010

Tropica says:

I had to deactivate today, the amount of spam it lets in is crazy.

I have changed the question and answer several times but as the answer is in a .js file its easy for a bot to harvest.

I would suggest you code in recaptcha and askimet as its unusable as it stands.

25 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

Point noted, will be fixed in next release for sure. Thanks for the heads up

21 Jan, 2010

umut says:

I have got language character problem. Can you pls have a look at my site? Thnx

19 Jan, 2010

Anh dep says:

Hello, my site theme doesn’t support Widget, however, I could add block of code to sidebar.php and it displays as a sidebar. How can I add Community Links form to my sidebar(what I have to add to sidebar.php)? Thank you.

22 Jan, 2010

CSSJockey says:

@Anh: Custom function is not available with this plugin yet, will try to add this feature in up-coming release.

05 Jan, 2010

Salmen says:

i installed the plugin in my blog but it doesn’t work
the Add Link form doesn’t work, when i click, nothing happens

05 Jan, 2010

Mark says:

I’m wondering:

1. Are the links actually comments that get added to a page?

2. If links are added from an Admin, can they be automatically approved?

3. I’m running WP-Super Cache. Will this play nice with it? In other words, will the page be cached (so no repetitive MySQL calls) until a new links is added.

4. Can I prune the older links when they get old so I don’t have thousands of records in my database?

Thanks. Nice concept.

02 Jan, 2010

Dedew says:

I Want to install it on one of my blog, but the theme is not supporting widget

02 Jan, 2010

Mohit Aneja says:

You can specify the Page ID in Plugin Settings and it will work on that page.

30 Dec, 2009

Jeff Riley says:

When will this work in IE? Please fix it soon.

30 Dec, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Hi Jeff, I’ll release an update soon with all fixes.

15 Dec, 2009

Billy says:

I am getting this error, when submitting………
Any suggestions ?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function submitlink#cjresponse() in /home/addictiv/public_html/wordpress2/wp-content/plugins/community-links-feed/assets/cjfunctions.php on line 9

15 Dec, 2009

Billy says:

How long does a post wait in the moderation queue ?.

15 Dec, 2009

Billy says:

http://addictivehobby.com/wordpress2/

15 Dec, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Please follow this link to continue the discussion on our support forum: http://support.cssjockey.com/topic/error-when-submitting?replies=5#post-125

15 Dec, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Hi Billy, Please share the website where you are using Community Links Feed Plugin so I can do some research.

12 Dec, 2009

Sunny Bhasin says:

Hey Mohit
How do i search for blogs using this community link feed plugin for specific category??
This will help all bloggers to promote their own designs ,posts , articles….many more

12 Dec, 2009

saad says:

hi
can i use it for showing those links on my site home page those who gives me higher hits to my site

12 Dec, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Right now there’s no option for categories for these links however if you are good with PHP and jQuery you can modify the plugin the way you want.

26 Nov, 2009

Andy says:

Hey is there anyway to put this on every post of my blog? I want it to display the links submitted under each post but not every link, just the links specific to that post?

26 Nov, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Hi Andy, This feature is not available on this plugin, however its a cool idea for a new plugin to for this functionality. I’ll try to spare some time to work on this idea.
Thanks for using Community Links Feed.

24 Nov, 2009

dhanusaud says:

you & your plugins, themes are just more than awesome.
well done & keep up the great work.

Regards,

19 Nov, 2009

Jsc says:

Hi, I want to ask how can we call your plugin by code because my template does not let me put your plugin in the sidebar (other sidebar components will disappear if I do so).

20 Nov, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

You can specify the page ID in plugin settings to enable it on any page.

18 Nov, 2009

Ren says:

Hi,
I had a conflict between 2 jQuery, because I load it from Google API, so I deactivated the jQuery in your plugin, otherwise my carousel didn’t work at all…

But I have a couple of questions:
- is there a way to print the form in the page, without use a lightbox effect, maybe adding it at the end of the list of links?
- is there a way to add a URL of the page, instead of the ID? I don’t like very much, when I hover the “More” link, see the ugly url “?page_id=1234″. In my website I use a permalink, why it is not possibile use them in your plugin?

Thanks for yur answers,
René

18 Nov, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

Hi Ren, I will add a short code to display the form on a page in next release. Will try to implement the permalinks for this as well.

17 Nov, 2009

MK van Bronkhorst says:

This may be exactly what I need, but when I installed and tried it out, the links don’t appear to be within Link Manager and there’s no way to set the Link Category. Am I missing something? I will have several hundred links, many added by users, but need to be able to manage the output via Link Library or similar.

17 Nov, 2009

Mohit Aneja says:

@MK currently this plugin doesn’t support categories however, its a nice feature to be added in next update.

10 Nov, 2009

John says:

Great plugin but being inundated with spam posts.

03 Nov, 2009

Marus T says:

Nice Plugin, but is there a way to integrate paypal payment, so the link will be published automatically once paid.

03 Nov, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Thanks Marus, I am glad you like Community Links Feed Plugin.

Currently there’s no features available for the same however you are free to modify and integrate PayPal payment gateway as you may like.

07 Nov, 2009

laura says:

Hello. Nice plugin.

I have a problem. On my localhost, everything works ok but live, on a wordpress with same plugins (nothing with cache) like on localhost, it dont work. The pop-up form show, but when i send the content, that green area with thank you message didnt appear and the admin of plugin have no link for approval.

pls advice.

thanks

02 Nov, 2009

Ralph says:

Mohit,

Where did you get that Share The Wealth bar for Facebook,Twitter, etc ? I’ve seen it before but don’t know the name of it. If you can let me know I’d appreciate it.

Cool plugin.

Ralph

02 Nov, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Search for Sexy Bookmarks WordPress plug-in and thanks for using Community Links Feed plug-in.

31 Oct, 2009

Cody says:

Nice I’ll have to check it out.

30 Oct, 2009

Stelios says:

Hi there, the plugin is great….got only one problem and i can’t understant why: the rss feed is not working, when i click on Community Links Feed RSS i get this: http://i35.tinypic.com/308e0qw.jpg , I didn’t change anything in the code except from the css stylesheet.

02 Nov, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Seems like its adding a space or a blank line at the top in feed.php file. Please check and remove any blank line-breaks.

03 Nov, 2009

Stelios says:

Hi again, thanks for replying, i can’t find any blank line or characters.

What i found is that the blog’s rss is also not working…so it’s not only the community links feed but when i deactivate the plugin it works.

Any idea?

03 Nov, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi Stelios, I have fixed this issue and a new version 1.05 is now available to download. Please let me know if you face any other issues with this plug-in. Please visit http://support.cssjockey.com/ to report bugs, issues etc. Thanks

03 Nov, 2009

Stelios says:

Thanks I was trying to find the bug when i saw that an update is available, now everything works great.

03 Nov, 2009

CSSJockey says:

That’s Great, Thank you for your support and feedback.

25 Oct, 2009

David says:

Great plugin.

But is there a way to use feedburner to deliver the feeds instead of the way it is setup with the plugin?

26 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Sure, the feed created by this plug-in is valid and you can add it to your feedburner account. You can update the links in the code with feedburner URL.

28 Oct, 2009

David says:

Thanks for the help on that.
With the recent update to the plugin it gives a headers already sent error with the following plugins:

cystat and mobilepress

29 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi David, Updated the plug-in to handle header already sent error if any. Please let me know if you are facing this issue with version 1.04 as well.

24 Oct, 2009

Dennis says:

Everything seems to work except the links don’t show after being submitted.
(Using latest version in both sidebar and page.)

24 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi Dennis, Are you using wp-cache or wp-super-cache plugin on your website? These plug-ins might create issues as they show static copy of your pages and Community Links Feed plug-in does not save the links as posts so these two plugins don’t update the saved pages. Try clearing the WP cache or check if these links show up if these plug-ins are disabled.

Also let me know your site’s URL so I can check the source code for this issue.

24 Oct, 2009

Dennis says:

No cache plugins. I also deactivated all other plugins. It’s not a live site (yet). There is doesn’t seem to be any js conflict. Using WP 2.8.5.

24 Oct, 2009

Dennis says:

PS
They are not showing up in the admin (CLF settings page) either.

27 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi Dennis, Please upgrade to the new version 1.02 and let me know if you still face any issues. Also please share the URL where you have installed the plug-in so I can check the code.

28 Oct, 2009

Dennis says:

The site is not live so I don’t have a link for you, but with that in mind I found the cause of the problem. Your plugin does not play nice with the “Maintenance Mode” plugin (http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/maintenance-mode/). They both can be activated but when Maintenance Mode is turned on it causes all kinds of issues. You can’t submit or approve links. It also causes some “headers already sent” errors while preforming other site actions.

28 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Thanks Dennis, I’ll check the setup with the maintenance mode plug-in and apply fixes asap.

27 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

This plug-in is compatible with 2.8.5. The demo site is running on the latest version of WP. Check it out: http://plugins.cssjockey.com

22 Oct, 2009

Richard says:

Does it work with askimet filtering?

22 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

@Richard: Right now it’s not may be in near future I’ll add this functionality.

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

IMPORTANT: If you are facing any issue with this plug-in and have WP-Cache Plug-in installed, try the steps listed here: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/best-wordpress-plugins-wp-cache/ I hope this will help. Please let me know if it works or you have any other information to share regarding this.

21 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

What about wp-super-cache?

21 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

I just performed a search on google and seems like a lot of people are facing this issue. Follow this link and check what suits best with your settings.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=wp-super-cache+blank+page+issue&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=1&cad=b

21 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

I believe that is a separate issue – I am not getting a “blank” page, as in the Google search. I am getting a BLACK page, as @jane stated above.

20 Oct, 2009

jane says:

I get this error /html/wp-content/plugins/community-links-feed/cj_community_links.php on line 61 in one of my site.
In the other site a get a black page. any clue?

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi Jane, I hope you have installed the upgraded version (1.01) of this plug-in on your server, if not, then please install the upgrade.

Also please check and let me know if you are able to access the plug-in settings in your dashboard under Settings->Community Links.

20 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

@jane I am getting an all black page as well, using the newly updated plugin.

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Are you able to access the plug-in settings page in WP dashboard?

20 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

Yes I was able to access them, when I had the new version of the plugin activated.

19 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

I really like the idea of this plugin and would love to use it…but when attempting to add a link, nothing happens: http://www.terracurve.com/links

19 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Thanks Joe, You need to add the sidebar widget as well. I’ll make it optional to have the widget or just the page in next update.

19 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

Thanks for the responses – here and in email as well. Unfortunately, I do not want to make the Widget “live” on my site, even to debug, as I stated in my email, as it actually breaks my whole site. Can you think of any reason why the browser would simply display an all-black page when the Widget is active?

19 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

I am working on the plug-in right now and checking for any issues and conflicts with other plug-ins if any. Also can you please send me a list of plug-ins you are using on your site via email so I can check any conflicts with them as well. I am also updating the plug-in to work with or without widget and update it tonight itself.

19 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

Great, thank you! Email of plugins on its way.

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Version 1.01 is now available to download from WordPress Plugin Directory. Now you can use it without sidebar widget. Please check and let me know if you face any issues.

20 Oct, 2009

Stew says:

Thanks i will try it

20 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

Mohit – I saw your update this morning and activated it. Now, without even the sidebar widget installed, my entire site goes BLACK with the plugin activated. I had to de-activate it.

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

I have installed and activated all the plug-ins you sent via mail and I didn’t find any issue. May be there’s some conflict with the theme setup. Can you share the theme files if it’s a free one. I would really appreciate your support to fix any bugs.

Thanks

20 Oct, 2009

Joe Ascanio says:

It sounds like @jane is having a similar, if not identical, issue. So, it may not be a Theme issue after all. Perhaps a Javascript issue?

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

It’s an issue with WP-Cache plug-in here’s the solution provided by DailyBlogTips.com http://www.dailyblogtips.com/best-wordpress-plugins-wp-cache/ I hope this will help.

19 Oct, 2009

delighted says:

Great innovative plugin! Ta!

18 Oct, 2009

Stew says:

Can i use it withouth widget?

18 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

@Stew: Yes you sure can Specify the Page ID in plug-in options page and save the settings, this will add the community links feed setup on that page itself.

If you want to add some instructions to the users you can simply edit the page from the dashboard.

18 Oct, 2009

Stew says:

Yes i know but, for inclusion in Sidebar can use code? withtouh widget?

18 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

At the moment, you will need the sidebar widget to make the panel work however I will add this feature in the up-coming release.

18 Oct, 2009

Stew says:

I’m old theme school!

20 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

Hi Stew, Please Upgrade the plug-in to version 1.01. It now works without sidebar widget.

18 Oct, 2009

Mustamar Natsir says:

Great plugin! This is what I need! Thank thanks..

18 Oct, 2009

Ramesh says:

I saw this kind of functionality on a few websites and was looking for the code to have this setup on my website.

Thanks so much for making our lives easy and I am going to use this plug-in on my websites. Keep up the good work.. Thanks

18 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

@Ramesh: You must have seen this functionality on PSDTuts.com and others in their network. Thanks so much for your comment here and the email.

I have replied to your mail as well please check and let me know once you are ready to get a custom theme for your websites.

15 Oct, 2009

Shanker Bakshi says:

Great Plugin Mohit, Will surely hit the blogsphere.

I want to know, can we insert one line code in a particular WordPress Post or Page, Something cooking in my mind, i can build an entire site on the basis of this plugin. Only if this plugin allow me to place one single line of coding in a post or page.

18 Oct, 2009

CSSJockey says:

@Shanker: Thanks, I am glad you like this plug-in.

Please send me an email with your requirements and I’ll get back to you. Nothing’s Impossible