Yeah, yeah, I know, there are others who have addressed this issue here, but after trying them all, none seem to solve the problem for me.

I need to create several link menus that are global/identical on ALL my sites pages, Each link list contains mulitiple external links. This should be a no brainer to maintain in the backend, so related links is to my mind the best way to to this (although link titles and other attributes won't be possible out of the box). On that note, if you have other ideas, feel free to come with suggestions.

I've put the macro in my master template. With that said, how to? I've used 4.6.1's built-in related links xslt:

  <!-- Input the related links property alias here -->
  <xsl:variable name="propertyAlias" select="string('maalgrupper')"/>
  
  <xsl:template match="/">

    <!-- The fun starts here -->
    <ul>
      <xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/* [name() = $propertyAlias and not(@isDoc)]/links/link">
        <li>
          <xsl:element name="a">
            <xsl:if test="./@newwindow = '1'">
              <xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="./@type = 'external'">
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="./@link"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl(./@link)"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
              </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
            <xsl:value-of select="./@title"/>
          </xsl:element>
        </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>

    <!-- Live Editing support for related links. -->
    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:Item($currentPage/@id,$propertyAlias,'')" />

  </xsl:template>