Thread: What? Links now gone from wordpress in the admin side?

Loaded up wordpress a few minutes back on a new domain.
And Bam!
On the admin side, no longer a LINKS shown!
You had POSTS - MEDIA - LINKS - PAGES - COMMENTS
Now just showing everything but LINKS.
Just a widget saying META, with Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress link.
Am guessing now, if you want links on the sidebar you have to get a widget and hard code them.

Anyone else see this yet?

The Links section was removed in WordPress 3.5.x. If you were using that section prior to the update it should still be there, but if not, it was removed. A statement from the WordPress development team said that a plugin adds the feature back in.

This is the plugin that adds the Links section back in.

WordPress › Link Manager � WordPress Plugins

The WordPress team is pretty smart, but not always brilliant.

Actually, I think it has always been a bad idea to include long lists of sidebar links to other sites on all pages in a site. Penguin penalized some sites that were doing this, which could have been the driving factor for the removal due to the default list of links pointed to WordPress sites. I have always modified my themes so that the Links section only appears on the home page and I limited the number of links to 4 or 5.

Thanks for that.
Same here, I started dumping links on my sidebars.
But it just was something I noticed right off the bat.