Wordpress Cat Link Plugin
 

Anyone know if there's a Wordpress plugin that allows you to trade links for categories and not the entire site? I've done my due diligence and haven't found anything.

Max ... I haven't found one designed for that either, and I've looked too.

However, one way to do it is to add the Widget Logic plugin and then use 'logic' to tell WordPress when certain groups of links should appear. You can add the links manually to a text widget or use something like Links Organizer and add that code to a text widget. Then in the little box that Widget Logic adds to the text widget you can put a statement like this:

is_category(X) || (is_single() && in_category(X)

You put the ID number of the category inside the parentheses and the text widget holding the links for that category will only be called to appear when the logic matches what you've entered. Depending on how you write that code, the links can appear only on the category main page or on every page/post within that category.

You can also use statements like these to have links only appear on the main page, or just category pages, or tag pages, etc...

is_category() || is_tag() || is_paged()

!is_category() && !is_tag() && !is_paged()

The plugin has good documentation but feel free to ask if you have any problem getting it to do what you want.

It probably would be good for more blog owners to use this or something like this so that more category trades can be done between blogs.

you might want to take a look at the video here:

http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

Installed, and it looks perfect. Thanks, Simon!|yourock

Hey Sparky |waves| I've been reading up on wordpress but haven't seen that yet, thanks for the cheat sheet.

Nice to see wp and wpmu are merged now. I've spent a little time the past few months playing with mu and it's got tons of potential.

I use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-text/ on a couple blogs. I add recips and adds to specific categories. You can also chose to have it show on homepage or posts in that category as well.

I use category specific ads in each category and am happy with the plug in.

Only down side is that if you have a post listed in more than one category, it will show the "added text" from the listed categories to that post.

Looks like I'm going to be using a combination of Widget Logic and Category Text. Widget Logic is extremely sexy so far, and I'm just getting into it but it's got more flexibility than I'm even able to use right now :)

Personally, I just use different templates for the different categories and then setup the same categories in the blogroll.