Couple of things that may be of vague interest.
1/ Just tested on a unmodified 2.9.1 / 1.2.1 install live server and the plugin seems to work flawlessly on PHP 5.1.6 in your readme.txt you state requirement of 5.2 perhaps to be safe?
EDIT/ ignore following just read the readme more carefully “not compatible with 1.2.x classic theme” hmm more and more the upgrade to 1.2.1 while maintaining backwards compatibility is simply not a viable proposition. projects like BP / WP rely heavily on third party plugins and the whole extensible nature if upgrades leave major plugins such as Events and Links non functional then there rapidly is little point in backwards compatibility, one finds not much choice but to upgrade fully. I have to know scrunb the theme work I’ve done and start over working on the 1.2.1 stream long before I had wished to given time constraints *sigh*
2/ appears there’s a possible jquery init issue. trying to get plugin to run on dev server running install using backwards compatible plugin / BP 1.2.1
As previous posters report Ajax will not fire whatsoever looking at script debugger shows this occuring in your global.js
‘bp_init_objects is not defined
bp_init_objects( [ ‘links’ ] );
http://********.co.uk.dev/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-links/themes/bp-links-default/_inc/global.js?ver=2.9.2
Line 9′
@hnla
Thanks for reporting that broken LI tag. I am going to make sure that is fixed for the next release. I am surprised that its not causing anyone problems, weird.
The PHP 5.2 requirement is based on me developing it on 5.2. WP ships with some compatibility functions for people running older versions of PHP, but since I am not testing my plugin against the compat functions, then I don’t feel comfortable supporting older PHP versions “officially.”
@kimsoler
I just tested this myself and did not have any problems. Can you be more specific about what exactly is happening?
Thanks for reporting that broken LI tag. I am going to make sure that is fixed for the next release. I am surprised that its not causing anyone problems, weird.
Ah there’s a prime example of the tag soup rendering engine at work, shame to say. It’s unlikely that it would cause problems as it would be apparent to browsers what needed silently correcting as opposed to invalidly nested markup preventing CSS from being able to compute where to apply it’s properties correctly for example.
I Just though it worth mentioning for the record that all appears to function correctly with PHP 5.1.6
I do find it a shame that the new version ‘almost’ works in backwards compatibility mode, it’s so almost there 
There’s a problem with the links installation on my bp 1.2.1 site running single wp.
On the links directory, none of the options works to display the links in order – most votes, newly created, etc. When I select a link category, it doesn’t do anything. It keeps on displaying the 10 newest links only. The pagination links doesn’t work also. It keeps on displaying the 10 latest links.
Anton sent me a private message that the issue above was a problem with his child theme that was breaking Links.
I dont have enough server space to give avatar upload feature to all members, so I dont want the avatar upload feature, how can I disable that please help me
@infution
Currently there is no way to disable the avatar feature.
is it just me, or Links does not work with new 1.2 BuddyPress default theme??
I see no option to add new links 
sorry if this was discussed already, I had a quick look but did not see anything
not avatar feature avatar uploading feature,how can i disable that using the php script edit
@MrMaz
Just activated Links on a new install of WPMU 2.9.2 / BP1.2.2.1 with Buddypack Fishbook theme.
Weren’t the link thumbs/avatars supposed to also show on the single page when clicking through from the home page activity stream? (Or is it my memory that’s on the fritz?)
This is totally totally a nob question, have installed buddy press links but where do my users create links?
From the Links directory.
eg. example.com/links/
Is there a way to add new categories apart from the default ones provided (new, humor, other)?
Btw, just installed this plugin and it seems to be working flawlessly. Thanks!
Sure.. just go to your admin panel and then buddypress > bp-links > manage categories
Thanks Bowe, not sure how I missed that.
@MrMaz Is it possible to get custom RSS feeds for each filter type? It would be great to see the feed icon link change with each filter selection.
Default (shows Most Recent):
http://mysite.com/links/feed
Would like to see something like…
Most Popular:
http://mysite.com/links/most-popular/feed/
Highest Rated:
http://mysite.com/links/highest-rated/feed/
@infution I’m concerned as well about the space the avatars will take up. Right now it uploads the images to the uploads folder in its original size (a problem if you have a fixed sized template area you’re working in).
My wishlist for @MrMaz:
1. Let admins specify a separate directory to use for BP Links avatar images or create a sub-directory in uploads
— Reason: It keeps things separate in case we want to remove BP Links in the future and delete all associated images.
2. Use the setting in WP > Settings > Media to create matching sized thumbnails (i.e. 150×150) and resize images down to the “Medium” image size setting (my max width is currently at 500px).
— Reason: one word… consistency. Plus, it helps keep things manageable.
* I noticed the thumbnail BP Links uses is actually the fullsize stored image — but scaled down per the width, height pixel values.
+++++++
Advanced cool feature I’d like to see…
Links that have been voted down by X number (most likely because they’re spam or totally unrelated) automatically get weeded out and their associated image(s) removed. This would free up a lot a space as well.
@agrunder
I have added the feeds idea to my list of requests. If I get a bunch of requests I will consider adding that feature.
Link avatars are already stored in a separate directory under wp-content/blogs.dir/files/link-avatars. I wonder if maybe this is not the case for single WP? I still need to do a bunch more testing.
The thumbnails that are uploaded are handled very much like the other BuddyPress avatars, and nearly all of the functionality for handling them is re-used as far as code goes. Right now the original “should” be getting resized down to 450×450 on upload, and then a copy down to 150×150 and 50×50 after the crop. All of these dimensions are determined by BP constants.
The thumbs are scaled down via CSS depending on the situation. For instance the 50×50 is used exactly as is.
I have not received much feedback at all regarding real world spam issues with Links, but I know eventually there will be a problem. I want to wait to tackle spam when there are real world use-cases to solve, not hypothetical ones.
What you described is very similar to Digg, and I think would be a cool feature, but maybe not to handle spam. I have planned from the beginning to allow users to set a threshold for negative rated links that would prevent them from showing up, for instance anything rated -5 or lower, don’t show me. The admin could set the default value.
Thanks for taking the time to submit some valuable feedback.
I should have done a bit more testing before providing feedback. BTW, I am using BP Links with a Single WP install on my development server.
*** I made an error earlier: avatar images aren’t uploaded in their original size to your wordpress uploads folder. The single link page embeds the original fullsize image from the site one links to (again, not the greatest thing if you’re working with a fixed width template), but the thumbnails shown on my Directory Links page are the fullsize image, just scaled down by width and height pixel values. ***
@MrMaz I’m glad to hear that BP Links is handling resizing and creating thumbnails to the BP constants. I guess things are being handled differently on a Single WP install at the moment. I’ll continue to test this plugin as things develop. Or I might just migrate to WP MU, though I’ve heard WP 3.0 will have a multi-blog feature that one can enable.
FYI, I encounted another issue. When I created a second test link the Directory Links page only shows one link now (the newest one). However, both created links appear in my Activity Stream.
In regards to the filtered RSS link:
I hope other people request this as well. I plan on adding the Most Popular or Highest Rated feed to the site’s twitter updates via twitterfeed.
@MrMaz Yeah… I’m not having any luck getting avatars resized and uploaded on a single wordpress install. BP Links (Version 0.3.2) is just embedding the URL of the original image. I’m guessing the plugin currently has no folder structure for a single install like it does for MU, which you stated earlier places avatar images in: /wp-content/blogs.dir/files/link-avatars/ — I’m keeping my fingers crossed the next release will have a fix for this
Out of curiosity, anyone know how I can alter the user link (will be editing: link-header.php)?
Currently using bp_link_userlink() but I’d like to change the output from mysite.com/user/ to mysite.com/user/links/ so people can see other links posted by the link owner.
@agrunder
Before I release 0.4 I am going to do a lot of WP single testing. Support for that is still in its infancy.
You can change that with the filter ‘bp_get_link_userlink’
That function is just a wrapper for bp_core_get_userlink() so you could instead use the ‘bp_core_get_userlink’ filter to change the behavior of user links install wide.
On wp single, when viewing a single link the filter “Show link votes” doesn’t display the link votes. Only “Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter”. It works on the activity stream except when viewing a single link.
@MrMaz Or we can just wait until WP 3.0 comes out ( http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-multisite-settings/ ) since it will have multisite capabilities and it will create a blogs.dir subfolder in wp-content which is compatible with the plugin. But then again I’m not sure how long it will take for v3.0 to hit when we’re currently at v2.9.2.
@MrMaz I’ve got some good news for you. While I still can’t get the avatars to work via the thumbnail chooser, I have gotten avatars to work on a single wordpress install when choosing to “Customize” the link’s avatar. In my case it can crop the image and upload the thumbnail and fullsize pic to /wp-content/uploads/link-avatars/
In case this helps anyone else… I had to use the “Full URL path” in wordpress’ Settings > Miscellaneous to get BuddyPress user avatars to upload (in case someone wants to use a different avatar than their Gravatar)
Full URL path example: http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads
