Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.This tutorial shows an example use of the Custom Links Module. As the name suggests, Custom Links provides the user with an ability to create customized links. Once installed, you can go to admin/build/custom_links to start adding the custom links.
To follow this tutorial, you will need to install http://drupal.org/project/views , token module http://drupal.org/project/token and custom links module http://drupal.org/project/custom_links .
We will be creating a link at the bottom of each node which will take us to all the nodes posted by the node author.
To start off, create a new View with name as "author_posts" and view type "node".
On the next screen "Add Display" of type "Page" and make "Row Style" to Node , Add Arguments of type "User:Name" and set page path to "author_posts" as shown in the figure below
Save the View and go to Custom Links Administration (admin/build/custom_links) and click on "Add a custom link" . Put something you will be able to remember in the "Link Key" field, put "View Author's Other Posts" in the Title field type, and in the Path field type the full path to the View we set up in the previous steps (e.g. http://example.com/author_posts). Add the token placeholder at the end of the path of the View.
So now your Path field value should look like this http://example.com/author_posts/[author-name] . We are using [author-name] since in the View we created we used user:name as an argument.
Choose the node type that you want the custom links applied to and save the custom link. Now visit some content of the node type that you placed your custom links on and you should be able to see a link at the bottom of the node which will look like the one shown in Figure 1.
If you have any problems following the instructions look at the figure below.
