links “page” – need help understanding…

You cannot put php code in the content area – it will not run.
What you can do:
1. Create a Page template and use that to display your links
2. Use a plugin like RunPHP or phpExe to be able to execute PHP code written in the content of posts and Pages.

Well, I tried RunPHP and got some weird errors… I’d like to try phpExe, but the download of the phpexec.txt is broken (I also tried to download his phpexec.php from his /wp-content/plugins folder, but I can’t figure out how to download the php code and not get the parsing error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function:… yada”) – anybody have the file on hand or know if it’s hosted somewhere elsewhere?

ok, now i’ve been able to try php Exec… neither of these plugins worked for me though – php Exec did at least return echo statements and date queries, but I still can’t call

<?php get_links_list(); ?>

and get my links. Is there something else I need write in the page editing area? I installed php Exec, and put the above code inbetween the [phpcode] [/phpcode] tags as required by the plugin, and I get nothing. If I try and add in the

<?php require('./wp-blog-header.php'); ?>

everything below the header disappears… so confused…

I just want to have a page that pulls links using the get_links_list command… am I going about this the wrong way?

For me it’s always the best to go by creating a new Page template – and you don’t have to worry about running plugins etc. See the link in the first option in my post above.

I agree. I have a links page for one category of links and it was easily made with a template.

Ok, I went with the template and I guess this time I had a better understanding of what I was doing – and it worked, marvelously, I might add. Thanks at all y’all for your help.

Glad it worked out. Could you, please, mark this topic as solved then?

yep.