Link Manager missing after on WordPress 3.5
If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to version 3.5 or have just made a fresh installation of it you have probably noticed that “Link Manager” or simply “Links” in control panel menu are missing. No you’re not nuts – it’s gone! This is because the new WordPress by default doesn’t use Link Manager any more. It’s still available in the code and sites upgrading to WordPress 3.5 should still be able to use it (if they used it before) but new installations (or upgrades who didn’t used it before) must install a plugin called Link Manager. So they have basically removed that option from WordPress into a plugin so if you need that option – simply install that plugin. Here’s a link with lots of geek informations about it.
UPDATE:
You can also enable it just by adding this single line of code in theme’s functions.php:
add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );
Bill
December 24, 2012 - 4:30 pm
Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t seem to work with fresh installs. At least, it hasn’t re-enabled the menu for me. I’m working on finding a way to “un-disable” the thing manually until a fix can be found.
Tony
December 24, 2012 - 11:31 pm
Sounds silly buy have you activated the Link Manager plugin? This will provide some more detail son link manager -> http://codex.wordpress.org/Links_Manager
wecode
January 16, 2013 - 12:58 am
Yes you are right link manager is gone in version 3.5. I did install the beta version of the link manager plugin it works well.
CG
January 25, 2013 - 12:03 am
thanks, I had already lost an hour trying to figure out what was going wrong on a new site I build
Lorenzo C.
April 8, 2013 - 4:07 pm
The filter works! Thanks for sharing this. I started a new site right after 3.5 was released and I just recently noticed that the Links manager was there.
Project night club
April 20, 2013 - 8:34 am
It was a superb write-up as usual buddie
Robert
May 4, 2013 - 9:14 pm
It works perfectl!!! Thanks you for this.