Add More bulk actions to the link manager

[teraom]

Currently, the link manager supports only one bulk action, which is delete.
If there are a lot of links, making links visible and invisible is now a tedious process. A bulk action for "make visible" and "make hidden" would be a good enhancement, IMHO.

[scribu]

An even better enhancement would be to transform links into a custom post type.

[scribu]

That said, it's pretty easy for plugins to add additional bulk actions in WP 3.1.

[edwardw]

[PATCH] Add features to bulk show/hide links

[nacin]

This patch seems like a good first step.

Coding standards:

• Needs more spaces, especially in wp-admin/link.php and in link-manager.php.
• Use single quotes rather than double quotes when able, in the list table code.
• In link-manager.php, convert the $doaction if/elseif/elseif to a switch with breaks.

Code itself:

• Use esc_url( wp_nonce_url( admin_url() ) ), rather than wp_nonce_url() and &. esc_url() will do that conversion for you, and further, wp_nonce_url() will reverse & anyway, so it's ending up unescaped in the existing patch.
• Namespace the nonces. Rather than show_$id, hide_$id, consider show-bookmark_$id and hide-bookmark_$id.
• Only add $actionsshow? if 'N' == $link->link_visible, and only add $actionshide? if Y' == $link->link_visible. (Note this is not a simple if/else construct, but rather if/elseif, as I think a plugin could override link_visible to be another value. So better to be specific that these actions only work for the boolean values.)

Translations:

• Translators will probably want these links to be contextualized. So _x( 'Show', 'link' ), and _x( 'Hide', 'link' ). We don't seem to be very good at contextualizing action links here and elsewhere though, so you can skip this step.

Ultimately, links are such a little-used feature that this patch will never be a priority. But once we branch off 3.3 and trunk becomes 3.4, if someone drops a comment I will come by and handle. (Assuming the patch is updated.)

[edwardw]

[PATCH] Add features to bulk show/hide links

[edwardw]

Updated as per suggestions - thanks nacin.

[iseulde]

wontfix since the link manager is now hidden?

[markoheijnen]

I disagree on the reason. It is hidden but still our code. This should be open till everything is moved to a plugin. We can then see if this is wontfix or not.

[iseulde]

Sorry, thought enhancements would no longer be added.

[kpdesign]

The link manager is only hidden from new installs (3.5 and after). Older installs that utilized the link manager prior to 3.5 still have it showing, so this code still needs to be maintained. Whether we should enhance the existing core code to include this functionality is up for discussion.

If this enhancement is included, then the Link Manager plugin should have the same functionality included in it (​http://wordpress.org/plugins/link-manager/).

[chriscct7]

No interest in 2 years and as Kim pointed out the link manager doesn't show anymore. Closing as wontfix