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What is the link package module?

When I first hear about the name, I 'm really happy that I finally find the module that could centralize the 'link mangement' for all the internal link and external website link I use in my article! But It turn out to be not what I have look for. What I 'm looking for is a module that could 'extract' all the link from my article and provide a console that I could centralize the link and make modification which could be reflected in the article that use it automatically.

The link module does not 'extract' link from article, instead, we have to enter the link in the console or in the 'related link' section which appear in node edit mode.

Althought the link package module does not meet my expectation. I does provide some feature I 'm looking for.

Install and configure the link package module

1. Download the module and extract it under directory 'sites/all/modules'
2. Go to 'Site building->modules' to enable the related moduel

   

   The 'link admistration' provide a console for link modification, while the 'Links Related' prvovide a section into the node editor  for inserting related links for this article. And the 'Link Weblink' is to add the popular 'digg' style content type.

    

3. For configuration, just go to 'Site configuration->Links package' to configure the module. There 're corresponding configuration section for each of the above functionality.

   

   Some of the configuration could be left unchanged and only have slight influence on the behaviour. (e.g. to open a new window when user click the link)

   

Use 'Links Related'

To understand the 'Links Related' , please see the following example:

'Links Related' could be appended to the content when editing the content

Unfortunetly, We could not select the link from a drop-down selection box and have to enter the url mannuly. If we enter a url that already exist in the link database, the link name will overwrite the previous link title. I think this feature need improvement in the future!

In order to see the above 'Link Related' section in node editing node, first we have to go to 'Content Management' to allow the content type to have a 'Link Related' section.

Using this module , we could now append a related article list under the article that our readers might be interesting of reading!