WordPress 3.5 is about to be officially released and there is a lot of awesome stuff coming out like the new Media Manager and the ability to easily add your favorite plugins to your site. There is truly a lot of brilliant stuff. But there is one issue with the new release that not many people seem to be commenting on.

Automattic, the company that manages WordPress, has chosen to remove the Links Manager, and this is totally fine; very few people use it and Automattic is moving the functionality into a plugin so that the few people who do want to use it can continue to do so. The problem is that to maintain backwards compatibility Automattic left the code in their system so that the Links Manager isn't actually removed it's just hidden. Continue Reading…