WordPress supports the ‘Blogroll’ model for links, which works fine for links but I wanted to be able to put together a series of pages listing links on different subjects for my CommunityNet project.
For example, I wanted to have links grouped into such topics as ‘Think Tanks’, ‘Animal Welfare Groups’, etc. I couldn’t work out a way of doing this in a manageable fashion through the existing WordPress functionality. I had a look around for Plugins but found nothing that seemed sensible for what I wanted, so I decided to ‘homebrew’.