Link Roller for MT 5?

You could create a custom widget yourself and use it for that purpose ;)

right. i'm sure widgets are easy to figure out if you're used to working with code, but i don't quite follow how they work and honestly that's more time than i want to spend to simply update my site and make it look like it did before the upgrade. i was just hoping someone could point me to a solution that i may have missed somewhere.

Creating your own widget really is pretty easy.

Here's a step-by-step:

1) Go to Design > Widgets

2) Click on "Create widget template"

3) Copy the following code in and add your title and contents.

<div class="widget">
    <h3 class="widget-header">Your Title</h3>
    <div class="widget-content">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="yourLink#1URL">Your Link #1</a></li>
            <li><a href="yourLink#2URL">Your Link #2</a></li>
            <li><a href="yourLink#3URL">Your Link #3</a></li>
            <li><a href="yourLink#4URL">Your Link #4</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

4) Save it and go back to the Widgets page.

5) If you used a two column layout, then click on the "2-column layout - Sidebar" widget set, otherwise decide which column you want it to appear in in the 3-column layout and choose that one.

6) Look for your new widget template name in the column of widgets on the right labeled Available Widgets.

7) Drag it over to the Installed Widgets column on the left where you want it to appear and click on save.

8) Republish the site.

Other than the html to add your links, you really don't have do a lot of code tweaking.

Good luck.

That's great, but if you're running something for people who don't know how use a computer very well, much less a dorkin' around in the innards of MT, it isn't a great solution. Linkroller was a great asset that allowed people, who have don't want to write a list, to make a list that was easy.