Website that's pretty much a collection of links

[scootermaster]

I'm looking to host a website that's a collection of links, so that other people in my field can find out what else is out there.

I've just spent the last 20 minutes googling things like "Link manager Bootstrap" and "link repository website" and "link plugin wordpress" and the like with minimal results.

First off, just looking for the appropriate term for whatever a website like this would be called. I thought link repository, but that didn't really turn up much.

Secondly, and tips for what software to run would be greatly appreciated! I'd like to use Bootstrap, but would do Wordpress if needed.

Lastly, what I'd actually like:
- Mobile/reactive layout
- Links can be tagged with keywords, separate from their descriptions
- Links can be sorted/searched/displayed based on keywords (so searching for "rat pizza" returns all the links dealing with both rats and pizza.) Clicking on "rat" would display all the links on rats.
- Upvoting/downvoting/user submission would be cool, but not strictly necessary.

This is pretty much a favor I'm doing to this community, but I think it'd be helpful, so any advise is appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[ninaholic37]

Lastly, what I'd actually like:
- Mobile/reactive layout
- Links can be tagged with keywords, separate from their descriptions
- Links can be sorted/searched/displayed based on keywords (so searching for "rat pizza" returns all the links dealing with both rats and pizza.) Clicking on "rat" would display all the links on rats.
- Upvoting/downvoting/user submission would be cool, but not strictly necessary.

I was going to say how to make a list of links for html in Notepad then I saw this.

 

[RampantAndroid]

You'd need to be looking at CMSes. Maybe Joomla has an extension made for it?

Should only be a day or two of work if you make one yourself using Bootstrap + PHP + SQL? Unless you want it to look good and all that...

 

[scootermaster]

I'm looking to host a website that's a collection of links, so that other people in my field can find out what else is out there.

I've just spent the last 20 minutes googling things like "Link manager Bootstrap" and "link repository website" and "link plugin wordpress" and the like with minimal results.

First off, just looking for the appropriate term for whatever a website like this would be called. I thought link repository, but that didn't really turn up much.

Secondly, and tips for what software to run would be greatly appreciated! I'd like to use Bootstrap, but would do Wordpress if needed.

Lastly, what I'd actually like:
- Mobile/reactive layout
- Links can be tagged with keywords, separate from their descriptions
- Links can be sorted/searched/displayed based on keywords (so searching for "rat pizza" returns all the links dealing with both rats and pizza.) Clicking on "rat" would display all the links on rats.
- Upvoting/downvoting/user submission would be cool, but not strictly necessary.

This is pretty much a favor I'm doing to this community, but I think it'd be helpful, so any advise is appreciated!

Thanks!

Also, I have no idea why this is in operating systems. I think I want this in programming. Mods? :-D

 

[Red Squirrel]

This would be rather easy to do in php/mysql. Basically a table/list of said links in various categories, and add some edit/add/delete features for those who login and have that kind of access.

A crude way but could be easier is you could also use an existing system like a forum software and just streamline the template more so that each post is just a link, vs having all the extra stuff like sig/avatar etc. Then it's managed like a forum where you setup moderators etc.

 

[scootermaster]

This would be rather easy to do in php/mysql. Basically a table/list of said links in various categories, and add some edit/add/delete features for those who login and have that kind of access.

A crude way but could be easier is you could also use an existing system like a forum software and just streamline the template more so that each post is just a link, vs having all the extra stuff like sig/avatar etc. Then it's managed like a forum where you setup moderators etc.

Yeah, I guess I'm looking into blog/CMS software that'll be easily morphed (or, better yet, has a section/plugin for this functionality, that can live somewhat separately from my website/blog/etc.)

I can't imagine I'm the first person to want to create a link repository. People still do that, right?

Anyone have any ideas for Wordpress plugins or the like?

 

[scootermaster]

Moved to programming bump. Anyone?

 

[Ken g6]

First off, just looking for the appropriate term for whatever a website like this would be called. I thought link repository, but that didn't really turn up much.

Your post in [thread=2442221]this other thread[/thread] led me to an idea of what type of site this is: Fark-like. Not that searching for open-source templates for Fark-like sites helped.

Now that I know what you want, I can see doing it with Drupal. You'd want to find a responsive theme, such as Zen.

You'd want to create a content type for links, one "node" per link. Your main page should be configurable to show a list of the links - if it didn't do that out of the box. In your content type you'd probably want to set the teaser to show the link, and hide the body. 😉

Tags should be taxonomy terms, in another element of the link content type. Here's suggestions on how to search by them.

 

[scootermaster]

Bookmarks! Why didn't someone just tell me to google "bookmarks"! There's literally dozens of thingees for this. For example: https://github.com/jacobzelek/phpmybookmarks