I have moreblog.net lying around for some time. I was planning to put yet another SEO blog on it but I really don’t have the time to manage yet another weblog.

So I downloaded one of the free directory scripts and placed it there. But somehow I don’t like this. What I would like is to have all links that ever appeared in one of the 8000 blogpostings on this website in a non-yahoo style layout nicely categorized. A sort of automatic WordPress to LinkDirectory converter possibly in some kind of populair.eu layout, so by grabbing the favicon of the page automatically.

I would also like to have the ability to place ads on specific linkdirectory categories and give people the option to add their own links (possibly paid with a sponsor indication) to a certain directory page where it retrieves the metatags of the webpage automatically so they don’t have to fill in the details.

So… (crrack) getting all the links in a dumpfile out of my WordPress database is pretty very very simple. But then comes the difficult part: which one do I want in it and which one do I not want in it and how on earth do I get them categorized automatically in some kind of logical hierarchy.

Maybe I should stick with a simple 2 layer hierarchy like startpagina. Just 1 tag for each link indicating the category and then another tag indicating it’s placement within this hierarchy.

One thing I was thinking about is doing it completely different: text and directory based, like the addressbook project I am working on. Each directory is called something like “computer.topic” or “harddisk.section”. The sections are widgets that appear in a topic page. Inside these directories are seperate files where each file contains 1 link and any kind of fields which are displayed via a small piece of php. E.g. favicon, description, tags, featured, date added etc…The date added is ofcourse the date it was added to WordPress.

Another way would be to add another table to WordPress and make an entry for each link, linking back to the blogdate. The user then needs to add a topic and a section to each element. (hmmm.. so another 2 tables for the topics and sections). By default none would be displayed. To brainstorm about the fields:

- url
- description
- topic
- favicon
- amount of times clicked
- featured
- display yes/no/not processed yet
- link to blogurl
- tags
- google rank
- alexa ranking
- in dmoz
- date added
- date changed
- last visit
- stars (1…5) (user ranking)
- commercial / non commercial

Obviously the script should support paging since it could turn into a huge list.

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2 Responses to “A WordPress based Link Directory”

1. Style » A WordPress based Link Directory says:

   September 30, 2007 at 12:41 pm

   [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhat I would like is to have all links that ever appeared in one of the 8000 blogpostings on this website in a non-yahoo style layout nicely categorized. A sort of automatic WordPress to LinkDirectory converter possibly in some kind of … [...]

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2. M says:

   January 29, 2009 at 4:04 pm

   not bad, that directory, but why i can’t find it officially in wp, what about malware in those scripts?

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