| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.5 / 5 |
| Reliability | 5 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 4.75 / 5 |
| Documentation | 4.5 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 4 |
Web Links provides a comprehensive way to post weblinks to your site. All links are nodes, which may be put into taxonomies/categories and administered. Additionally blocks may be enabled for any category (or sub-category) of weblinks. This module plays nicely with taxonomy_access/node_access allowing... [More...]
| Maintainer: | rmiddle |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Community, Content, Content display |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-2.3 | 2009-Sep-26 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-2.5 | 2009-May-10 | Download | Recommended |
| 6.x-2.x-dev | 2009-Oct-22 | Download | Development |
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This is one of the best maintained modules available. The maintainers are very responsive and willing to change what the users want. The only downside to this is that maybe it has too many settings, but that's the flexibility that has been asked for.
It seemed strange to me that there isn't a better solution for Blogrolls in Drupal, so I was excited to find this module that promised to take care of exactly that: managing external links, even by category.
What I liked about the module was the fact that it seems seamlessly integrated with the core Drupal modules. It's using the Taxonomy module for categories and has a straightforward installation. The module creates the Vocabulary automatically (after visiting the configuration page once). Any categories can be created through the Taxonomy module. Weblinks comes with three different css files; I chose the weblinks_minimal.css, as my goal was to integrate the module's output into my sidebar.
Another part of the module that's great is the views integration. Using Drupal 6, Views and Weblinks, it's easy to create a page with the most popular links based on user click-throughs (which comes as a predefined block for the sidebar, but the fact that it CAN be easily re-created using views was noteworthy).
One feature that I was missing was an OPLM importer to take all the items from my existing feed reader and import them easily into Drupal, without having to copy & paste every website manually. Apart from that, I think I'll use this module from now on instead of creating custom blogrolls, as it seems to be maintained very well and updated often.
I'm currently evaluating this module on a production site (comunidad.agilmatica.com). It's pretty easy to use but I get the feeling it could be great, although I'm yet to figure what it could do better... will update as I get more use-time on it.
Fast, straight-forward way to set up a links system without much trouble.
Does what you expect and then some.
"The Drupal5 version is definitely stagnant and old, but the Drupal6 version is being improved quite a..."
"The module seems to work OK, however I have been unable to embed the player within content. The documentation..."
