How to re-enable the links manager?

Question

There is no links manager in the admin_menu of Wordpress 3.5.1 anymore. I'm creating a custom add_links_page, and I'm having a hard time with the making a plugin.

Do I need to initialize something to show the links page?

Answer 1

It's commonly activated through:

add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );

The suggested Link Manager plugin only contains this code line.

Answer 2

To re-enable the link manager, add the following line to your theme's functions.php file (child theme recommended):

 add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );

Answer 3

Or go in you wp database, in the (wp_)options table find the option "link_manager_enabled" and change the value from 0 to 1 (option_id should be 86)