Recipe 26: Creating a Blogroll

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Ingredients

Completed Recipe 25

In this recipe we will clone the website_snapshots view, and make some modifications, to turn it into a blogroll, which is a block of links to great sites.

Modifying the Link Field

1. Administer the link field at admin/content/types/link/fields/field_link.

2. Change the help text to read:

   Link Title Example: <em>Local Food</em>
   <br>Link URL Example: <em>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food</em>
   <br>Note: Use the full URL, including: <em>http://</em>

3. Change the Link Title from No Title to Required Title.

   

4. Go to admin/content/node and edit each link item. Enter a Link Title for each content item.

   

Creating a new view based on website_snapshots

1. Go to admin/build/views/website_snapshots/edit, and click on Clone. Make the following modifications:

   	From	To
   Name	website_snapshots	blogroll
   Description	Web site snapshots, using the websnapr service	Block of links to great sites
   URL	website_snapshots...