alinks for Modx

Hi,

Does anybody know of a plugin like alinks or crosslinks for wordpress which can be used for deep linking the articles. Here is an article which describes what I’m talking about a bit more xxxhttp://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog-deep-linking-made-easy-alinks-wordpress-plugin/

Deep linking is very cool technology and being able to automate it would be very cool, maybe someone could even rewrite the plugin for Wordpress/Drupal to work for Modx.

bump,

Come on people this plugin could potentially be as cool and ground breaking as the seo_strict plugin. If it doesn’t exist can someone please build one, I’d even be tempted to commission one. It already exists as a wordpress and drupal version so I would have though it would be fairly straight forward to take one of those versions and make it fit with MODx.

I haven’t used this plugin for Wordpress, but here are my thoughts:

1. MODx’s approach to URLs is very different from Wordpress... it views each page as a file. Wordpress can be confusing (depending on how it’s setup) because you can navigate to the same post using multiple different URLs. MODx doesn’t need the permalink thing because the post (i.e. the page) lives in one specific place.
2. Deep-linking to any number of pages on your MODx site can be accomplished easily using the WayFinder snippet. If for some reason that’s restrictive for you, you can always write your own snippet to list pages that meet your criteria (e.g. using the @SELECT binding within a template variable). But if you learn WayFinder and Ditto, then what you can accomplish with MODx will go through the roof. They are hugely important and versatile.
3. If these don’t meet your needs, don’t blame the community: get cracking on some coding. We’ve all got things we’re working on and as we develop new tools for our own MODx projects, we generally make them available to the community when appropriate.

Quote from: Everettg_99 at Nov 14, 2008, 01:44 PM

I haven’t used this plugin for Wordpress, but here are my thoughts:

1. MODx’s approach to URLs is very different from Wordpress... it views each page as a file. Wordpress can be confusing (depending on how it’s setup) because you can navigate to the same post using multiple different URLs. MODx doesn’t need the permalink thing because the post (i.e. the page) lives in one specific place.
2. Deep-linking to any number of pages on your MODx site can be accomplished easily using the WayFinder snippet. If for some reason that’s restrictive for you, you can always write your own snippet to list pages that meet your criteria (e.g. using the @SELECT binding within a template variable). But if you learn WayFinder and Ditto, then what you can accomplish with MODx will go through the roof. They are hugely important and versatile.
3. If these don’t meet your needs, don’t blame the community: get cracking on some coding. We’ve all got things we’re working on and as we develop new tools for our own MODx projects, we generally make them available to the community when appropriate.

Thanks for that hugely unhelpful post,

1. Yes and no you still have to hack the .htaccess to get Modx to do frinedly URL’s so not too different really but I take your point to an extent.
2. I think you misunderstand me and also what deep linking is, I’m talking about links in articles pointing back to for example the homepage not the other way round.
3. If I knew how to write these things then I would do it myself and post it on these pages, I was just asking for some help, sorry if that pissed you off!

BTW I have actually, through the help of a nice member of this forum, found the plugin I was after, it’s called autolink

No, I wasn’t pissed off (sorry if you took it that way)... though it sounds like you are. I would be careful about assuming what someone’s attitude is based off something as open to interpretation as a forum post and you may want to tone down the rhetoric about forum posts you deem as "unhelpful" (Forum etiquette 101).

It’s good to clarify what you meant by deep-linking... perhaps if you describe a detailed example of exactly what you’re looking for, you will better enable others to help you out.

Yes, you have to configure the .htaccess file in pretty much every CMS out there.

Have you looked at the Breadcrumbs snippet?

Quote from: Everettg_99 at Nov 14, 2008, 04:51 PM

No, I wasn’t pissed off (sorry if you took it that way)... though it sounds like you are. I would be careful about assuming what someone’s attitude is based off something as open to interpretation as a forum post and you may want to tone down the rhetoric about forum posts you deem as "unhelpful" (Forum etiquette 101).

It’s good to clarify what you meant by deep-linking... perhaps if you describe a detailed example of exactly what you’re looking for, you will better enable others to help you out.

Yes, you have to configure the .htaccess file in pretty much every CMS out there.

Have you looked at the Breadcrumbs snippet?

OK no problem I suppose you were just trying to help. If you’d read my reply properly you would have seen that I have actually FOUND the correct plugin, it’s called AUTOLINK, and is almost exactly what I was after.