Wordpress: Order Link Categories manually?

December 23rd, 2005 at 05:17pm Now that the semester is over I'm going to devote some more of my time to my blog and also developing software. One of the first things I was going to do on my blog is add more links over on the right and realized it is a major pain in the butt to order not only the links but also the link categories themselves. Wordpress has no facility for manually ordering the link categories so I changed that. My quick fix was adding a column to the database and then editing the select query to order by "my_order" instead of whatever it was doing. My plan is to develop a plugin to add this functionality because it is sorely missing and the weakest point of Wordpress that I have found. I'll update as I work on that and hopefully I can get it released to the WP community for others to use.

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  • 1. nathan118  |  December 24th, 2005 at 9:56 am

    My categories are ordered by ID. You can’t specifically set the ID of a category, it’s just based on the order you created them, it still works for me. Arcade Building is my last ID (last one I created) so it shows up last. Here’s what my code in the sidebar template looks like:

    I believe I changed whatever was in the parenthesis (name?) to ID. But you are an uber geek, so feel free to make a sweet plugin.

  • 2. nathan118  |  December 24th, 2005 at 9:57 am

    and of course the code doesn’t show up.

    */*/

  • 3. nathan118  |  December 24th, 2005 at 9:57 am

    ay yai yai.

    ?php get_links_list(id); ?

  • 4. artgeek  |  January 24th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

    This would be brilliant. I find the lack of control WP offers over links to be v frustrating, personally.

  • 5. Nick  |  February 23rd, 2006 at 7:10 pm

    Nice work on the plugin! It is seriously handy and makes it so much easier than changing the code each time.

    Thanks.

  • 6. byrle  |  May 24th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    beautiful online information center. greatest work… thanks

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