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So, I was thinking I'd use WordPress' Bookmarks/Links content type to populate a slider...

...Except there are a grand total of four functions interacting with this part of WordPress.

I don't think you can even access these with a WP_Query object, and it seems all date-related data attached to these is in relation to the last update of the link itself (I.e., when the linked-to page is updated).

Is there any way to even retrieve only the most recently-added bookmark?

(For more of a semi-related discussion question for the comments -- if this aspect of WP is so woefully underdeveloped 3 versions of the CMS in, why not just farm out this functionality to a plugin? Simply backwards compatibility?)

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As far as I know it's not possible to query the links directly, but there is definetly a link_updated field in the wp_links table, so you can use wpdb to interact with it and return the latest (modified) links.

There's also a solution here.

EDIT : Updating a link doesn't change link_updated, but here is a plugin that can solve that : Link Updated Plugin

Auttomatically update the link_updated field when adding or editing a link, so you can use Links as a linklist.

EDIT 2 : If using the Links/Bookmarks functionality is too much of a hassle, as it seems it's really not as flexible as posts, you could also create a custom post type or a post format for Bookmarks and work with that.

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  • Isn't the value of link_updated the timestamp of that link's content's last update? I.e., not when the link was added or updated in WP, but rather, when that link's content is updated?
    – aendra
    Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 3:31
  • You're right, I just tried on a testsite, when I update a link it doesn't change link_update. By looking for info on that, I found a plugin that may do that though (see updated answer)
    – mike23
    Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 7:20
  • Thanks, but half the reason for using weblinks in the first place was to avoid half of the templating work that goes hand-in-hand with custom post types... I've fallen back to just using a post category and custom fields in the meanwhile, but I'm still curious whether there's any way my above question can still be answered.
    – aendra
    Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 17:08

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