Comments on: Delink Pages Plugin

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:46:46 +0000

Hi Jennifer!

Your Delink Pages plugin worked like a charm. I did have the same problem as Neal 9/20/10 (link font changed to a smaller font), but the problem was solved when I changed the value from # to href it was fine.

I tried another delink plugin, but couldn't get it to work, and there were no directions. After a little bit of searching, I found yours — and your instructions were easy to understand (I am new to WordPress).

Thank you so much for developing this fabulous and easy to understand plugin! Frances

By: Neal

Neal — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:07:58 +0000

Hi Jennifer,

Trying out your DeLink Plugin. Thank you. It works as you say but… if I use "true", it changes how my link looks, if I use href, it's how I like it but the cursor still changes to a hand so that it looks like a link when I don't want it to be. See the last two links in my site. There is Test, which is set to href, and tt which is true.

The theme is an Artisteer generated theme if that makes any difference.

thank you for any help. Neal

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:42:46 +0000

Hi Scripty,

I was searching around for a solution to this problem for quite a while, so I was interested to see your code. I always figured it could be done with regular expressions, but I never understood them well enough to do it myself.

I ended up taking a different approach. My plugin solves the problem Mark was describing before, about having the parent pages unlinked automatically as the client builds the page hierarchy. I also provided support for dummy ('#') links, building on your example. Here it is; I'm curious to know what you think of it.

http://www.ambrosite.com/plugins/unlink-parent-pages-for-wordpress

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:40:24 +0000

Zoe – can you post more details: Link to where you have this installed. If you're getting errors, what errors are you getting. What have you put in for custom fields… That way I can try to understand the problem and help…

By: zoe

zoe — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:22:12 +0000

i cannot work for the link pages plug on my website..i dont know what is the problem..who can helping me?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:53:49 +0000

I confirmed with Frank – 1.1.1 works for him now.

By: Frank P. Walentynowicz

Frank P. Walentynowicz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:54:14 +0000

WP 2.8.4, PHP 5.2.5, it works on clean installation with no plugins. Does not work with All in One SEO Pack 1.6.7. This plugin is too important to be disabled. Still, my solution works with tons of other plugins. One warning about delink,true. It messes up navigation (horizontal top, vertical submenus). However, delink,href works for all themes.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:40:48 +0000

Well, on the sites I have this running, obviously it works for me so there is something unique in your setup that is preventing it from working. I think preg_replace might be more efficient so long term I'd prefer to stick with that rather than give up and do a string loop. So I'd like to understand *why* it's not working for you.

What other plugins are you using? What version of php is on your server?

By: Frank P. Walentynowicz

Frank P. Walentynowicz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:49:26 +0000

Hi Jennifer. What I meant saying that plugin didn't work is that it leaves output from wp_list_pages unchanged in any way. It applies to both versions 1.0 and 1.1. When I used standard string functions instead of preg_quote and preg_replace the plugin made intended changes ( delink,true - stripped link entirely, delink,href - made 'href="#"' change with no problem).

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:02 +0000

FYI – for anyone following along via comments. I've updated the plugin to allow for the link to also be pointed just to "#". All you need to do is instead of setting "delink" to "true" – just set it to "href". Updated plugin should be up on wordpress.org now too…