How to use the Links Directory?

[Admin 1]

Are their any guides or tutorials on use of the Links Directory?  I'm fairly new to the IPS system so everything is a mystery to me.  I'm not sure how to:

1) Add the Links Directory to my site

2) Add links to the page

As an alternative to the links directory, I'm wondering if there is a "news" plugin of some kind that I could use to link to news stories relevant to my site's subject (college sports recruiting).  And if there was such a plugin, I probably wouldn't know how to install it or place it on the site, lol.  

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

- Pat

[Adriano Faria]

10 minutes ago, Admin 1 said:

Are their any guides or tutorials on use of the Links Directory?  I'm fairly new to the IPS system so everything is a mystery to me. 

If you're talking about this resource, it's just like create a topic. Create a category, give permission for those can create the link (record) and then click to create a new link. Give a title, the URL and the content and hit save. You're done. The app will add a screen capture of the site as the image record.

[Admin 1]

Thanks for the guidance Adriano! That is the resource I have.  I finally figured out the problem was: I hadn't added links to the menu manager so the page was essentially hidden (I'm REALLY new to all this).

Two follow up questions... now that I have a links page, how to I add sub-menus.  Like, I want one for resources, and one for news stories.  And lastly, if I want to manage the links myself as admin and now allow users to add links, where do I adjust those permissions?

[Adriano Faria]

Menus? It doesn’t add “menus”.

[Admin 1]

I'm probably using the wrong term.

Right now I have a Links Directory, and under that is the category "Resources".  I want to add an additional category called "News".

[Adriano Faria]

Go to Admin CP -> Community-> Links Directory -> Categories and manage your categories there.

[Admin 1]

Thanks so much!  Final question I promise... where to I adjust permissions so only I can add links?  I've been poking around and can't find it anywhere.

[Adriano Faria]

2 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Go to Admin CP -> Community-> Links Directory -> Categories and manage your categories there.

Click in the arrow down icon in the category row and then Permissions. 

[Admin 1]

Thanks once more Adriano, you have been a tremendous help!!

Pat