The first one would probably be more consistent though.

backlink="." for current page, otherwise specify a page name.

Good addition!
Thanks Leiger (we should work together more ofthen :-))

Bump…

I would really like a way to show backlinks using a custom layout (e.g. how we define the ListPages module body to determine what the layout of the results will be) … and filterable by category.

For example, I want to do this:

"List all backlinks for this page, as long as those backlinks are coming from the profile category."

And:

"Display the list of backlinks all on one line."

Displaying all results on one line is already possible with ListPages (example shown below), but not with the current backlinks module because there is no module body for it.

[[module ListPages ...]]
%%title_linked%% \
[[/module]]

Edit: If backlinks were to be integrated with the ListPages module, it would also fulfil gerdami's wish: a BackLinks module that does not list nav: or system: categories

Thank you for completing this wish - data forms & pagepath just got a step closer to pure-awesomeness :)

Thanks!

Remarks though

• it only works for triple bracket links not for single [ ] even if they are internal (in site)
• it does not work for generated links like pagepath values or links created by a listpages module

Steven: it only works for triple bracket links not for single [ ] even if they are internal (in site)

Backlinks has never done this as far as I know, so it's not surprising. I think the only answer here is that we need to use triple-bracket links whenever we want it to create a backlink.

That means that if for some reason we want to link internally but not create the backlink, we can just use single brackets instead.

So it works great at the moment IMO, because we can choose whether or not to generate a backlink.

Steven: it does not work for generated links like pagepath values or links created by a listpages module

As far as I know pagepath links generate a backlink, and can be shown using [[module Backlinks]] … so I am very surprised to hear that it doesn't work here :S

I will test myself in a moment, but if you're saying that it doesn't work then it probably doesn't and I'll get the same results. It sounds like an inconsistency with using ListPages to list backlinks… and Backlinks module to list backlinks… and should probably be fixed IMO.

Hmm… can't seem to get this working. This is the code that I am attempting to use, but it produces no results (whilst a Backlinks module on the same page does produce results).

[[module ListPages link_to="."]]
* %%title_linked%%
[[/module]]

Edit: For any Wikidot team member, here is a page on my private test site, where I've been attempting to get this to work: https://shanesmith.wikidot.com/backlinks

I have this working fine on a live template at http://roaringapps.com/developer:_template and a working page at http://roaringapps.com/developer:apple (with pagepath generated links). The code I used is below - I've no idea why it's not working for you.

[[module ListPages category="app" order="@URL|title" separate="no" perPage="100" link_to="."]]

Remember category parameter still by default selects pages from current category, so to mimic Backlinks module, you need [[module ListPages category="*" pagetype="*" link_to="."]] or something similar.

Could we have some reaction to the limitations we found:

• it only works for triple [[[ ]]] bracket links not for single [ ] even if they are internal (in site)
• it does not work for generated links like pagepath values or links created by a listpages module