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Collapsing Links

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES for WP 2.7
Please deactivate before upgrading, then re-activate the plugin.

The Collapsing Links widget creates a list of links (blogroll) for each link category, which can be expanded and collapsed dynamically. You can have multiple instances of the widget on your pages, each with its own set of options, including:

Show link counts in link category links
Sort by link category name, link category id, link category count etc.
Sort in ascending or descending order
Exclude certain link categories
Automatically expand certain link categories
Several different icons to choose from for expanding and collapsing

The plugin is hosted on the official wordpress repository at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-links

If you have any questions, bug reports, or feature requests, please post a comment below.

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82 Responses to “Collapsing Links”

On August 25th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Leonaut.com wrote:

Collapsing Links…

The Collapsing Links widget creates a list of links (blogroll) for each link category, which can be expanded and collapsed dynamically….
On August 26th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
philip wrote:

Cool. My blogroll was getting so out of control that I removed it from my sidebar. This will enable me to put it right back! I’ll have a play just as soon as I get home. Thanks
On October 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am
William wrote:

I didn’t see the links version yesterday!!! So glad it is there!!! Thanks a Bunch!! Though I’m almost there..I’ve two questions…I have it working..simple enough..though when I expand the category it won’t collapse- there is no [-]
Second..how can I use css to adjust the look of the link, what exactly do I call the ‘elements’?
This is so brilliant..I hope you get the word out better for this …especially to those that love 100 link lists..
On October 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Rob wrote:

@William,

I’m not sure if I understand all your questions, but I fixed a few bugs and added some more options in version 0.1.2.

Please take a moment to give the plugin a rating. That should boost its visibility.

Rob
On October 29th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Stef wrote:

Hi Robert
Great plugin, there’s just one thing about it that niggles me – click on any link and it opens in the same window, despite me setting all of my links to open in new windows. If you can fix this, I’d be glad to give your plugin a rating.
Thanks.
On October 29th, 2008 at 10:01 am
robfelty wrote:

@Stef,

I was not aware of that functionality. It should work now in 0.1.3.

Thank you.

Rob
On October 29th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Stef wrote:

Cheers for the swift reply, Robert, I’ll update to the latest version as soon as it’s available from the WP repository.

I’ve found another bug, though… “include” and “exclude” link categories doesn’t work if the category link title is 2 words (works fine if it’s just 1 word). Right now I’ve got 2 instances of the widget in my sidebar – one should have all cats excluding “Site Navigation”, the other should just include “Site Navigation”, but the first has all cats and the other shows none.

FWIW, there’s something going on here with your comments – I found my original commment and your reply to it via the RSS Comments feed, but neither are showing in the comments list for your blog post.

Cheers again,

Stef
On October 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am
baron wrote:

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards
On November 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
tueac wrote:

I’m sorry but your plugin can’t seem to work with certain web browser or my theme… I tried it but it will only work on Google chrome…
On November 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 am
Alyse wrote:

Is there a non-widget version? I would like to use this on a page instead of my sidebar. Thanks!
On December 21st, 2008 at 8:39 am
Effluvium from Sonya’s Brain » Blog Archive » Shout-outs to Some Damned Kewl Coder-Geeks! wrote:

[...] Felty is responsible for 3 separate plugins — Collapsing Archives, Collapsing Categories, and Collapsing Links — which enable me to make my archives, categories, and links all collapse (imagine that!) [...]
On December 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
robfelty wrote:

@Alyse,

Sorry for the slow reply. The newest version of collapsing links does allow you to use a non-widget version.

Rob
On December 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 am
John wrote:

Am I missing something, I used the Widget method. The list shows up on my blog but the lettering is light grey. The up/down arrows appear to be clickable when curser is over them, but nothing happens. I changed to ’show only unused’ in widgets – to be sure.

WP version 2.6.5

Same result in IE and Mozilla browsers.

Am I suppose to add the code shown at the bottom of the widget dropdown menu somewhere? Don’t see any instructions about doing so.

Nice concept and seems flaxable – if it works.

Please help, I’ll leave it there this way for a few hours, maybe you will see how it is.

Thanks, John
On December 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Mario wrote:

Hi,
I used your pluging, which has worked. Suddenly, I don’t why, don’t know what I changed, I can open the categories anymore to see the links itself.
What could it be ?
thanks, Mario
On December 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 am
robfelty wrote:

@John,

The color of the text is inherited from the sidebar. Notice that your “My Tweeting” section is also the same grey.

I am not quite sure why the collapsing is not working. It could be that there is a conflict with some other javascript on your site. If you have the option for “animate collapsing and expanding” checked, try unchecking that. That is the most likely culprit.

Thanks for trying it out.

Rob
On December 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
Mario wrote:

Is it possible that this happened after the upgrade to the new version. I did not deactivate it, like you wrote. Just made an automatic upgrade.
Not sure, if it has worked afterwards.
I unchecked the animate.. still not working.
Also the mouse is not changing when I go over the collapsing symbol of the categorie, like it did before.
On December 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
John wrote:

Changing the ‘animate’ option has no affect.
Interesting – I removed the ‘My Tweets’ widget and now the expand arrows on ‘collapsing’ don’t even react to curser, as they had before.
So, am I stuck with the “great conflict mystery” which will use the rest of my life to figure out?
I guess I can’t use this cool looking plug in, can’t affort to spend a week trying everything, unless you have any other ideas,

John
On December 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
John wrote:

Oh, and I forgot, also after removing the ‘My Tweets’ widget – the code that was in the ’style info’ box at the bottom of the the ‘Collapsing Liks’ drop down box is no longer there, Nothing in the box now.

John
On December 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
robfelty wrote:

@Mario,

Could you give me a link to your site so I can check it out?

@John, you could try downloading an older version, and see if that works for you, or maybe a newer version (not yet done) would work. Sorry it is not working for you.

Rob
On December 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Thomas Brincefield wrote:

I just wanted to let you know, I was installed your plugin, using the automatic install from Wordpress. When I activated it and placed a widget in my sidebar, my load time on my blog went from about 15 sec to almost 5 minutes. When I deactivated your plugin, the load time went back to normal. Obviously something is not working right there.

I am using the Vigilance theme on Wordpress 2.7.
On January 1st, 2009 at 11:15 am
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hekk Rob,

I’ve tried to use your Collapsing Links widget. Seems extactly what I want as my Blogroll is in excess of 200. However, just can’t get it to work.

I left it on my site in the very bottom of the left hand-side bar so show you what it is doing. Any ideas? Others in our blogging community I am in have also tried it and can’t get it working too. It would be great if I get this to work as it would be so useful.

Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com/
On January 1st, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

Whoops my previous comment was suppose to say Hello … fingers must of got in a knot when Hekk came out LOL …
On January 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 am
John wrote:

Rob, I got the 1.4 version to work on my blog.
What was changes in the 2.0 version, may be some clue as to why myself and some of mt associates can’t get it to work.

Yes, Garry, above and a few others of us are in a small group, about 500, that are in a traingin with Alex Jeffreys and many of us want to have these fellow student blogrolls which can get huge as we get it built. I see Garry has about 200 in hi so far.

What I am getting at here is that we can pass this plug in around to a few people, many of which are getting damn serious and building a lot of traffic to their blogs, the point right!

If you can help us figure out how to get these working, we help you! Part of what many are doing is having lists of resources they have used, aka plug-ins.

I will tell Garry and some of the others about my success with version 1.4

My blog is http://makeinternetmarketingmoney.com I will put a post up there about using ver. 1.4, if you wish to add comments there feel free.

All of the blogs are most likely using one of the last two WP versions as most are new.
On January 2nd, 2009 at 1:09 am
John wrote:

Now another question comes up. Some say that links, (blogroll) hold better SE weight if they have a description, so it is not just a dumb link.

I noticed that with theh collapsing links plug-on the description does not show up with a ‘mouse over’. Is there a way to get this to show? And do you know if the description shows up to a robot even is not shown onn the site, it is in the link listing in the control panel.

John
On January 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
robfelty wrote:

@Garry and John,

Sorry for the slow reply. I just moved across country, and have been busy with Christmas and New Year’s stuff as well.

I just checked into the problems, and I think I have fixed them. I also added a mouseover feature as you requested John. Please download version 0.2.1.

Rob
On January 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 am
John wrote:

Rob,

OK, part way there. The new version works, but a little oddly.

I use the triangle bullet in front of the title (other options work the same)
The FIRST time you roll the curser over either the triangle or title, there is NO highlight or words show up, BUT, clicking on the triangle DOES expand the list.
Then, I can close the list and scroll over it again, the triangle does not highlight, but the mouseover word DOES show up – but only on the one that I clicked and opened.
Each one must be clicked on and opened once before it responds to the mouseover.

I hope this makes sense.
I will leave it this way so you can look at it.
http://makeinternetmarketingmoney.com

Thanks, John
On January 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

Thanks for sorting it out so quickly. I will give it a try on my website today and get back to you.

Thanks once again. This is going to be very useful.

Kind Regards,
Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com
On January 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
robfelty wrote:

@John,

Try out 0.2.2. Thanks for your patience. This plugin is the newest of the ones I have written, and so it is still a little bit immature.

Rob
On January 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
John wrote:

Rob,

You’re the man!

2.2 works – cool

A couple of questions.

So when you added the ‘mouse over’ feature, the feature of the little triangle expanding went away – can’t do both? Or is that overkill?

And, since I’m not a coder, would you know where to look for the control of the text in the menu. On my theme the links list is a meduim grey, I want to make more pronounced, like black. I suppose in the Stylesheet, but what would it be called?

Thanks
John
On January 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Tom Brincefield wrote:

It is working pretty well on my site now. There are just a couple of things that are rather strange. In Firefox 3.0.4, data keeps downloading from my site for a couple of minutes after everything on the page is there. I don’t know what it is getting, but something is happening.

Also, on my Widgets page, when I show unused widgets to install your link widget, it shows 7 different Collapsing Links widgets, besides the one in my sidebar.

John, on your editor page, try adding this to your stylesheet:

.collapsLinkItem {
color: black;
}
On January 5th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

I tried the version 0.2.1 after you sorted the problems I highlighted. Works fine on the collapsing bit now.

One thing that doesn’t seem to work is the ability to Include/Exclude categorys at the bottoms of the options. When I select this in either Include or Exclude mode it does not work at all.

Incidentally, I am not talking about the autoexpand category option – that works fine.

Thanks
Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com
On January 5th, 2009 at 11:38 am
robfelty wrote:

@John – about style – you might also try something more general, like:
.collapsLink {color:black}

@Tom,

What makes you think that collapsing links is making your page load slowly? It looks to me like it might be all the images coming from amazon.

The many different instances in the “unused widgets” is a result of trying to add it and then wondering “why didn’t it show up after hitting save changes?”. I will figure this out eventually, but since there is a workaround, I am not making it high priority, since I just moved, and am very busy.

@Garry, I just tested out including/excluding on my site, and it works fine. Are you entering the name or the slug for the categories? (not the id)

Rob
On January 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Tom Brincefield wrote:

Rob,

Well, the good news is, it isn’t your Collapsing Links causing the loading. It is also not the 2 Amazon pictures I have there. (If you are seeing more than that, please let me know, since there are only supposed to be 2.) It is apparently something with the WP Super Cache I installed recently. I was assuming it was your widget because it had caused such long load times the first time I tried it, which you have fixed even better than I had thought. Sorry about that.

I also found out how to remove the extra widgets on the widget page. After having the widget active, remove it and save the changes. It does not get added back into the unused list as long as there is one still there. So it was a matter of add the widget, save changes, remove the widget, save changes, until I was down to one.
On January 6th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

I got that include/exclude feature to work. Didn’t realise you had to use the slug reference!

Any chance you can have an option for ‘nofollow’ on the links?

BTW, I’ve got it on my site all up and working now and using some clever technqiues to make sure I get the desired effect on my site. I’ve got a post up today all about it. I have loads of readers on my Blog and I’m hoping to do a video later in the week to let everyone know how I did it all. The last video I did, got embedded in nearly 3,000 websites. Anyway, reason I’m telling you this I’m going to directly refer to your plugin in the video and give a big thanks to you to sorting out the problema I had.

Thanks Rob, Check back later in the week when I put up the post & video which will mention you!!

Garry Parkes,
http://garryparkes.com
On January 6th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
robfelty wrote:

@Garry – thanks for your encouragement. I just released another update today, which has finally fixed the “disappearing widget” problem. I will work on adding a nofollow option (though isn’t that half of the point of having a blogroll?)

Rob
On January 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the reply.

‘Nofollow’ is all to do with making sure you keep your page rank in the serach engines.

Have a look at this article here. It explains why is is very important from a SEO point of view.

The default for a Wordpress Blogroll is Nofollow

Hope that helps,

Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com/
On January 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
robfelty wrote:

@Garry,

I added a nofollow option in 0.2.4. As far as I can tell, it is not the default (in fact not even an option) in wordpress. Also, from what I have read, having many outgoing links can make you look like you’re cheating, but I think if you only have a few, then it can help page rank (it should help the page rank of the sites you are linking to).

Rob
On January 9th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Mary Beth Frezon wrote:

After trying to get this running and getting no drop-downs no matter how I configured it, I tried re-downloading the latest version tonight and tried again. Still nothing. I decided I would leave it up and running with the whole list of links above it, just for practical use.

Accidently I opened my page in safari and it worked perfectly. So can I blame firefox for these issues? Any ideas on how it make it work better for everyone?
On January 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Garry Parkes wrote:

Hi Rob,

Thanks for popping by my blog. Yeah, I featured you in the tutorial video I put up about installing the widgets and how use to great effect all the configuration options. I gave you a mention and a big thank you in the video, plus mention all the widgets I used to create such a flexible and dynamic blogroll.

I’m also going to get all the links I refer to in the video (including yours) up on my FAQ page as soon as I can.

Thanks again for doing the changes.:-)

Garry Parkes
http://garryparkes.com/
On January 14th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
More Software | Tom B.'s Rambles wrote:

[...] looking for a way to manage a Blogroll that could easily get very big, I found the Collapsing Links plugin by Robert Felty. It lets you organize your links by categories and have them in a neat little [...]
On April 5th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Joel Sax wrote:

A problem to be fixed in future versions — I can open the link categories just fine. The trouble is that they don’t close. I refresh and they don’t close. I visit the page again and they don’t close. There’s no obvious way to shut them down. I’d like to see this feature implemented in future releases.

Good plugin otherwise.
On April 9th, 2009 at 11:34 am
リンクを並べ替えたり折りたたんだり >> 病的溺愛シンドローム wrote:

[...] ということでリンク関係のプラグインを探していたら、 Collapsing Linksというリンクを折りたたみ表示できるプラグインと My Link [...]
On April 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Maria wrote:

Hi,

I am wondering if you can help me out. After running a collapsing links upgrade, my site will not show up in my browser anymore (only about 15% of my site shows up). I am running wordpress version 2.7.1 — and I did not deactivate the collapsing link plugin before upgrading. How can I fix this? Any ideas would be most appreciated!

My site address is http://sensingarchitecture.com

The error messages I get are as follows:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mlehman1/public_html/sensingarchitecture/wp-content/plugins/collapsing-links/collapsLinkList.php on line 154

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mlehman1/public_html/sensingarchitecture/wp-content/plugins/collapsing-links/collapsLinkList.php on line 160

Thanks for your advice on how to fix the problem,
Maria
On April 13th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Maria wrote:

Figured out the problem … Although there is a compatibility issued between Collapsing Links and Wordpress version 2.7.1 — The real problem was coming from a different plugin on my site.

Can’t wait until your plugin can work with 2.7.1

Thanks!
On April 16th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
melissa wrote:

Any chance you’d get this working on 2.7.1?

After having problems with the display of my links on expanding and collapsing, I removed the widget and deactivated the installation to see if that would help. BAD MOVE. Now, upon reactivation, the widget box keeps disappearing altogether (i.e. I add the widget, hit save, and it disappears). At least before it was at least displaying!

I’d therefore like to officially beg (if that will help!) for this to be updated to integrate with 2.7.1 — it was my favorite plugin before, and I don’t know what I’ll do without it!
On April 16th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
robfelty wrote:

Maria and Melissa,

It seems to work just fine for me on 2.7.1. I did just release an update today with an added features. I would recommend upgrading to version 0.2.6

Rob
On April 18th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Tjoeten wrote:

After updating to version 0.2.6 and 0.2.7 the Collapsing Links plugin on my blog no longer works.
For every linkcategory it shows following code:

class = “collapsLink show ‘onclick =’ expandCollapse (event, “►”, “▼”, 1 “, collapsLink”); return false ‘> ► Linkcategory
On April 18th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Tjoeten wrote:

After upgrading to version 0.2.6 and 0.2.7 the Collapsing Links plugin om my blog no longer works.
Following code is displayed for every linkcategorie:

class = “collapsLink show ‘onclick =’ expandCollapse (event,”►”, “▼”, 1 “, collapsLink”); return false ‘> ► Linkcategorie
On April 19th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Photowork wrote:

Great plugin, easy to use, very helpful on my blogs, thanks for share!
On May 5th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Zeb wrote:

Hiya :)
Thankyou for the awesome plugin. My question is mainly a cosmetic one. I love the effect of the collapsing and expanding and so forth, but I want to get rid of the li “image” shown for expanded links i.e. >> (or close to.) My Wordpress theme already has it’s image for that but the >> sort of shows up underneath (visit my site to see what I mean.) Can’t figure out where I can go to remove/edit them out. Thanks :)
On May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Blogszok wrote:

Nice plugin, well done!
On May 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Ronny wrote:

Hi!

Great plugin, but i wish it had the option for sub-categories.. will this be a feature soon?
On May 21st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
robfelty wrote:

Ronny,

Wordpress does not support subcategories for links. If wordpress adds this support, I will add it into my plugin.

Rob
On May 24th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Marc wrote:

I have installed the collapse plugin. My issue is that when you click on a category in the sidebar it drops down to reveal the links but removes the category heading. Is there a way to fix this?
It also give no option for the user to minimise the list back.

I’m using it on my site transmediabroadcast.com

Thanks for a great plugin, just have a few small issues which I think could help.
Look forward to your response.
Thanks,
Marc
On June 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Mary Beth wrote:

I’m still trying to get this to work properly in Firefox. In Safari it works great. In Firefox I see the list of collapsed links but they don’t expand. Any ideas on how to fix? I left it at the bottom of my sidebar, but below the regular list of links since I’m not sure other viewers can use it properly.

http://www.quiltr.com
On June 4th, 2009 at 11:18 am
robfelty wrote:

Mary Beth,

I am not sure why it is not working for you, but I think it might have to do with the fact that your site uses frames. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

Rob
On June 5th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
David Artman wrote:

Using Collapsing Links, which is a HUGE benefit to my Sidebar organization! Thanks!

I have just ONE, tiny niggle that I am trying to change/fix/hack:

I was wondering what I can change in the Style Settings (or even in the base code, or in my theme’s style sheet or PHP) that would prevent the bullets from showing to the left of the expand/collapse arrows (which, in turn, are to the left of the Link Categories).

I have tried changing this line:

li.widget.collapsLink ul {margin-left:.5em;}

…to this:

widget.collapsLink ul {margin-left:.5em;}

…and this:

li.widget.collapsLink {margin-left:.5em;}

…and even this:

widget.collapsLink {margin-left:.5em;}

…with no discernible difference in how it renders the widget in the sidebar.

Looking at the served HTML code in my browser, I basically DO NOT want this ID:

<ul id="collapsLinkList-450766141">

…to be an unordered list (or if it MUST be an unordered list, can I change the bullet to be a thinspace or space or something otherwise invisible?).

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide;
David
On June 7th, 2009 at 2:41 am
Andy wrote:

HI,

could you explain what this “picture address” field is used for in the collapsing links plugin.

I added a link to a picture, but I cannot see anything. I thought when hovering over the link,
I could see it.

Thanks

Andy
On June 7th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
robfelty wrote:

I don’t know anything about a “picture address”. Could you elaborate?
On June 7th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
robfelty wrote:

David, You want
li.collapsLink:before {content: ”}
On June 10th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Al wrote:

Firstly, great simple plugin to clear the clutter in your sidebar. I have 2 quick questions though:

On the sub-menu list how do I remove the » (double arrow) symbol that appears. I can’t see anything in the css or figure out how to remove it.

On the heading – If I don’t want to add a + or – or any other symbol how do I remove these and not have an indent when doing so.
On June 13th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
WordPress 2.8 ウィジェットのトラブルとプラグイン対応リスト >> 病的溺愛シンドローム wrote:

[...] Collapsing Links [...]
On June 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Melissa wrote:

I’ve loved this plugin – made my sidebar SO much cleaner!

One thing I’ve noticed since the upgrade to WP 2.8 — now the widget will not retain my setting on the “Sort Link Categories by:”… it defaults back to the pre-selected option (Link category name) every time I press save.

I tried:
-moving the widget around
-deleting the widget, adding a brand new widget
-adding a second widget
-completely deleting the Collapsing Links plugin and re-installing
-doing all of the above in both Firefox and IE

Nothing seems to work – can’t get that setting to “hold”.
On June 18th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Lee B wrote:

Thanks for the great plugin! I’ve used it in a couple different sites and enjoy its flexibility and clean presentation.

I, too, have upgraded to WP 2.8 and the plugin is having troubles. I haven’t had trouble with the info being lost but:

* the categories are expanded each time on refresh and navigating to the page.
* the first click on a category only registers it, the second click gets a response (either collapses it or goes to the link)
* when I place the widget in a left sidebar the right sidebar disappears. I don’t know if this is theme related but the right sidebar doesn’t fail with other widgets being added to the left sidebar so far

Thanks for the great plugin! I really like what you’ve shared here!
On June 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
baron wrote:

Works great, thank you
On June 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
Julian wrote:

Error message updating version 0.31
Using WordPress 2.7.1.

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in /html/wp/wp-content/plugins/collapsing-links/collapsLinkWidget.php on line 2
On June 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
robfelty wrote:

0.3.x requires wordpress 2.8
On June 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Julian wrote:

ah.. okay :)
On August 10th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Jeff wrote:

Great plugin, it’s the closest I’ve found yet to the exact solution I’m looking for!!

My only feedback under WP2.8 (and apologies if you know this, or my issue is a plugin conflict):
- if the link category has the optional description filled out, it displays and sorts on that (and not the Link ID);
- it does not appear possible to change the link sort order, it always reverts to “link category name” when save is pressed: and
- (feature upgrade) it would be a perfect plugin if the link categories could also be manually sorted. At the moment I have to number each one to force the order away from alphabetical

Keep up the great work, I look forward to future updates!!

Jeff
On August 12th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
robfelty wrote:

Jeff,

Thanks for pointing out that bug. Please try downloading the development version. It should be fixed there.
On August 17th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Paul -Sheffield, UK wrote:

New to Wordpress (using 2.8.4) and this looks good widget. In the the other clickable widget that I have enabled in the sidebar show “little hand” when you hover. However Collapsing Links shows a vertical thin cursor bar when hover over the symbol for expanding category (the help pop up appears). It does expand and on the actual link in the category the hand appears. This is slightly confusing for end users – is it configurable; I note your site this does not happen. Using Vista 1.2.6 theme (unchanged)

[The web site is not pubic yet]
On August 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Dani wrote:

Hi

When I activate your plugin on my site, my front page messes up. Here are the screen shots of what happens

http://eyci.org/headline-images/eyci.org_1.jpg
http://eyci.org/headline-images/eyci.org_2.jpg

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The normal homepage is at http://www.eyci.org
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Do you know how to fix this?
On September 18th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Soccer Pirate wrote:

Hi Rob,

Thank you and congratulations for such a great little WP plugin (Collapsing Links). I really like it.

I do have a suggestion for future versions:

Because the span.collapsLink (markup) is a span rather then an anchor it never receives a tabindex and therefore is inaccessible via keyboard. This is important for anyone who cares about web accessibility such as that outlined in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 in Section 2.1.

It seems to me that either replacing or wrapping the span with an anchor would solve this problem, and a “return false” (which is already returned for the onclick event in that span) would prevent whatever you put as an href (presumably “#” or “javascript:void(0)”) from being followed.

I admit I have not looked very deeply into the code to see what type of headache this may cause you. Perhaps I’ll tinker around a bit when I get some time and see if I can figure it out. I’ll let you know if I come up with anything.

I sorry if I’m mistaken and have simply misconfigured something. Thanks again for all your work on this great plugin.

Cheers,
SP
On September 30th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Mixiplus wrote:

Hi,
I really like the Widget version.
But… I have a large number of links that I would like to present on separate static pages, not as widgets. I read the readme file, but still can’t figure out how to get the output to the specific pages with diferrent categories as arguments for the generation of the collapsible menus.
Would appreciate your help, if possible.

Best regards

Michael
On October 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
WordPress 2.8.5 アップグレードとプラグインの更新 >> 病的溺愛シンドローム wrote:

[...] Collapsing Links を使っているので全く有効化してる意味がないのだがいつか連携できる日が来るのを夢見て有効化してる「My Link Order」もごく普通にアップグレード完了。ちなみに上記２つのプラグインが連携できたらいいなっていう夢はあたしの勝手な妄想であって、２つのプラグインに関連はない。念のため。 [...]
On October 31st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Robert Neuschul wrote:

Hi,

I tested Collapsing Links on a closed [private] install of WP 2.7.n using a custom [home built] theme, and was able to build several static pages with version 0.2.7 of Collapsing Links.
However after deactivating all plugins and upgrading to WP 2.8.5 and then upgrading CL to the latest version none of the collapsing links in static pages work.
I then tried deleting the plugin directory, cleaning out all references to CL in the DB and reinstalling CL, and instructed CL not to use the sidebar config prior to configuration. This has made no difference.

After clearing the WP cache I repeated the exercise with all other plugins disabled, again this has made no difference.

Finally, I disabled CL, deleted the directory, cleaned out the DB again and restored version 0.2.7 which had worked perfectly with WP 2.7.n – it too does not work with WP 2.8.5.

Any debug or test instructions would be very welcome.

Many thanks,

Robert
On November 28th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
何も分からなかったことが分かった（WPテーマ） - 病的溺愛シンドローム wrote:

[...] で、切り捨てたのが Collapsing Links というリンクを折りたたむプラグイン。 [...]
On December 15th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Max.W wrote:

I know in the notes you mention being able to set the target of the url’s, but there doesnt seem to be an option to set the target (blank, self, parent etc..)

Any ideas on how to make this work?

Thanks.
On December 22nd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Palyne wrote:

Hi Rob, I love your expanding plugin widgets! I am just putting them in place now. I’m having a problem with the expanding links one though.

1. I put in a category to ‘exclude’ and it doesn’t exclude anything. It puts all the categories on the page no matter what ID or IDs are in that box.

2. I switched the drop-down and instead put in just the one category ID I wanted to include, but then nothing showed but the widget title (no links).

3. I put in a category to auto-expand and it seems to expand them all. However,

4. Despite that I have emptied my cookies for the site and held down shift while reloading to force cache clear on the page, the open/closed status seems to be based on whatever I previously chose. So now I can’t see if anything is working or changing because I’ve already visited the page! Gah!

Advice for #4 would be helpful since at least then I would be muddling through with a clue to the results. But I really need to be able to display multiple links widgets with just 1-3 categories each and the others excluded. Is there any other information, login, etc. I can provide you with to be of more help? Oh. WordPress version 2.8.6 and plugin version 0.3.2. Thanks so much.

Palyne
On January 22nd, 2010 at 3:04 am
Astaldo wrote:

The plugin is not working properly for Firefox.
I changed wordpress version and updated to newest version of this script, but it still doesn’t work.
The error console says that childList is null (at Line 130).
This does NOT happen in InternetExplorer or Opera.
For me it seems that he is not properly parsing the node list.
On January 22nd, 2010 at 3:06 am
Astaldo wrote:

The plugin is not working properly for Firefox.
I changed wordpress version and updated to newest version of this script, but it still doesn’t work.

The problem:
I can see all categories. The one i want to be always expanded is correctly expanded. But when I click a categorie it doesnt do anything.

The error console says that childList is null (at Line 130).
This does NOT happen in InternetExplorer or Opera.
For me it seems that he is not properly parsing the node list.
On February 4th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Zolengthe wrote:

Recently my Status Bar shows “Error on Page” and the error indicates the following details. Can it be solved?

Webpage error details

Message: ‘1′ is null or not an object
Line: 73
Char: 17
Code: 0
URI: http://zolengthe.net/wp-content/plugins/collapsing-links/collapsFunctions.js?ver=1.6

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