Title: Open Links Directory Author: cina Published: October 9, 2008 Last modified: December 30, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/odlinks/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=677020) ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/odlinks_e5e1dc.svg) # Open Links Directory By [cina](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cina/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/odlinks.zip) * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/#description) * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/#reviews) * [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/#installation) * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/) ## Description Open Directory Links (ODLinks) help you to build a websites directory and allow your site visitors to submit links by themselves and enabling visitors to search for a website. This plugin is under active development. If you experience problems, please first make sure you have the latest version installed. Feature requests, bug reports and comments can be submitted [here](http://www.forgani.com/root/opendirectorylinks/). ### Upgrade You will need to make the Smarty cache folders writeable (chmod 777): * odlinks/includes/Smarty/cache * odlinks/includes/Smarty/templates_c ### Notes I hope you enjoy using Odlinks. Thank you Manny Forgani ### History ### To Do ### Arbitrary section ### A brief Markdown Example ## Installation * Unzip the downloaded file and upload the odlinks folder to your WordPress plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/) * Log into your WordPress admin panel * So go ahead and activate the plugin, which should appear in the list of installed plug-ins. The activation process add a new menu with the name “ODLinks” to the navigation bar in your WordPress admin site. * “ODLinks” will now be displayed in your admin panel. * For first step instructions, go to Options “Settings” under ODLinks menu. You will need to make the Smarty cache and template_c folders writable (chmod 777): Use your FTP client to change its permissions to 777. * odlinks/includes/Smarty/ cache * odlinks/includes/Smarty/templates_c Once you have changed the folder permissions, return to your browser, and refresh it. Now you can submit your settings. After submission, installer process will create the tables automatically. For your information, after submitting the settings a new page will be created with the title [[ODLINKS]]. This title will be also added to the content of pages automatically. Do NOT remove the page. The plugin work correctly with this page ID. Please, you should keep the default title [[ODLINKS]] of page to make it to work… To uninstall and deactivate the plugin, please go to Options “uninstall” under ODLinks menu. * Creating/Editing a category and subcategory * Before deploying, you should create and set-up the categories and subcategories for your Website. * Go aheead and choose “Categories” from the ODLinks drop down menu and insert the category name and category description and then submit it. * You can insert the subcategories by clicking on ‘Add Category’ and choosing any category name from the list in parent category. If you select root as parent category, then you create a main category. * Create a subcategory is mandatory and required! Depending on the “Permalink Settings” it’s possible for some pages that the categories urls are not accessible. To fix this problem you should go to update the .htaccess file which is existed under WordPress top directory. Normally if you click on categories you will get something like this: /odlinks/? _action=main&id=2&parent=1 If instead of the “/odlinks/” something else is placed for example “/97-revision- v1/” you can update your the .htaccess file as follows: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L] RewriteRule ^97-revision- v1/?([^/]_)?/?(._)$ /index.php?pagename=odlinks=$1=$2 [QSA,L,R,NS] RewriteCond %{ REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php[ L] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSrZpBrGaYo This guide will show you the step by step process for first installation/configuring ## FAQ How can we display the latest xx ads in the sidebar? You copy the following code and place it anywhere in the sidebar.php located in active theme folder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSrZpBrGaYo This guide will show you the step by step process for first installation/configuringWhere to customize font and background colors? You may modify the style sheet odlinks.css in wp-content/plugins/odlinks/themes/ default/css/ folder in any way you wish to sets the background color of the layout area or fonts ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0f9c62a2e3f33fdecfe71cfad2fe287c0c9c1387c47adbe8d8da330261b7a668? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Verified with the WP revision 4.8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erified-with-the-wp-revision-4-8/)󠁿 [cina](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cina/) June 26, 2017 Just Verified with the WP revision 4.8. For me it works. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50c101f4d9be877802d44713e653b7ee3306990c73a8daa836608bfa2bf2dcba? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Such a shame it doesn’t work 🙁](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/such-a-shame-it-doesnt-work/)󠁿 [angeljs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/angeljs/) March 19, 2017 Despite all of the negative reviews, I thought I’d test it out anyway. Sadly, it doesn’t work. The sites that are submitted for review do not show in the admin section, and the link to the thumbnails website is not active. It’s a shame, as it seems so promising! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a010c1da913daa75b74b206548826bf04a7c080bb947d7e70d53630baea8c9b6? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Bogus plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bogus-plugin-1/)󠁿 [chandeldli](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chandeldli/) September 3, 2016 you can’t do any thing with this. [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Open Links Directory” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ cina ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cina/) [Translate “Open Links Directory” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/odlinks) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/odlinks/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/odlinks/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/odlinks/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/odlinks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog Last Changes: 21 Mar 2025 – Now fully compatible with PHP 8 #### 1.5.0 Last Changes: 12 Dec. 2018 – Now fully compatible with PHP7.0 and PHP7.1 – Updated to Smarty version 3.1.33 #### 1.4.1 Last Changes: Feb 29/11/2014 – Fixed Security Vulnerabilities #### 1.4.0 Last Changes: Feb 01/03/2013 – implement page navigation – fixed to Thumbshots works properly. – bugfix: admin style #### 1.3.0-d Last Changes: Sep 22/09/2012 – implementing of posts by admin user #### 1.3.0-c Last Changes: Oct 22/10/2011 – Bug Fix: fix pagerank issues – update to check the character #### 1.3.0-b Last Changes: Mar 30/03/2011 – added/changed new skin theme & added some further admin interface – made some tiny changes to fixe for wp 3.1 problems.. #### 1.2.0-d Changes 1.1.2-d – Aug 29/08/2010 – implement category’s link in footer #### 1.2.0-c Changes 1.1.2-c – May 25/05/2010 – fixed for WordPress 3.0 #### 1.2.0-a Changes 1.1.2-a – May 25/05/2010 – new captcha routine. The previous methods have got problem with firefox – updated to show ComboBox with subcategory names Changes 1.1.1-a – Jan 20/01/2010 – implemented english language file Changes 1.1-a – Jan 19/01/2010 – update the search process and templates Changes 1.0.2-a – Oct 25/10/2009 – Fixed bug with auto-install on wordpress 2.8.5 Changes 1.0.1-a – Mar 17/03/2009 – Implement the search function. Changes 1.0.0-a – Jan 25/01/2009 – It covers changes between WordPress Version 2.6 and Version 2.7 Changes Nov 12/2008 version v. 07 – implement the banned list – added google pagerank Changes Nov 12/2008 version v. 05 – implement the bookmark & sent to his friend’s button – edit/move categories * implement the conformation code (captcha) Changes Oct 10/2008 – admin email notification – include the Google AdSense ## Meta * Version **1.5.0-a** * Last updated **3 months ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 4.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.7.5** * PHP version ** 8.2 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/) * Tags * [classifieds](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/classifieds/)[link directory](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/link-directory/) * [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/odlinks/advanced/) ## Ratings 1.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 5 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/odlinks/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ cina ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cina/) ## Support Got something to say? 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