Pipeworks | Working With Write-Link

Working With Write-Link

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By piping many files into Write-Link, you get a series of links, separated by newlines.

If no caption was provided, the caption of the link will be the page name (without any extension)

'Home.html', 'About.html', 'Contact.html' | Write-Link

Home
About
Contact

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To make the appear in a list, use -List

'Home.html', 'About.html', 'Contact.html' | Write-Link -List

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To make the appear in a list, use -NumberedList will make each link occur in a numbered list

'Home.html', 'About.html', 'Contact.html' | Write-Link -NumberedList

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-Horizontal will make links appear horizontally.

'Home.html', 'About.html', 'Contact.html' | Write-Link -Horizontal

Home | About | Contact

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-HorizontalSeparator lets you customize the separator

'Home.html', 'About.html', 'Contact.html' | Write-Link -Horizontal -HorizontalSeparator ' - '

Home - About - Contact

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You can also provide a url and a caption, or a CSS Class

Write-Link -Caption "Home Page" -Url "Home.html" -CssClass MinorMenuItem

Home Page

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If you need to, any object with both a Caption and a Url property will also work

(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption = "Home Page"            
    Url = "Home.html"            
}),(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption ='About Us'            
    Url = 'About.html'            
}),(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption ='Contact Us'            
    Url = 'Contact.html'            
}) | Write-Link -Horizontal

Home Page | About Us | Contact Us

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If you write your links this way, the Sort-Object command can help you sort

(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption = "Home Page"            
    Url = "Home.html"            
}),(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption ='About Us'            
    Url = 'About.html'            
}),(New-Object PSObject -Property @{            
    Caption ='Contact Us'            
    Url = 'Contact.html'            
}) |             
    Sort-Object Caption -Descending |             
    Write-Link -Horizontal

Home Page | Contact Us | About Us

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Write-Link can be pretty social as well. For instance, it's simple to add a 'Tweet' Link

Write-Link twitter:tweet

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Or a 'Share on Facebook' Link

Write-Link facebook:share

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Or a Google:+1 Link

Write-Link Google:+1

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You can also link to twitter profiles

Write-Link 'twitter:@jamesbru'

@jamesbru

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Or add a follow link

Write-Link 'twitter:follow@jamesbru'

Follow @jamesbru

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You can also add disqus comment sections to your site

Write-Link 'disqus:powershellpipeworks'

blog comments powered by Disqus

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Youtube videos are automatically rendered with the YouTubePlayer

Write-Link 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR2koin9QNA'

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.MP3s are automatically rendered with the 1pixelout player

Write-Link 'http://www.archive.org/download/art_of_war_librivox/art_of_war_11_sun_tzu.mp3' -Caption 'The Art of War: The 9 Situations'

The Art of War: The 9 Situations