This page is an archive for the older versions of My Link Order. All new comments should be made here.
Gives you manual control over the order of your WordPress link categories and links by letting you set an arbitrary order. Includes drag and drop ordering and a replacement Widget.
Download My Link Order:
- WordPress 2.5: Now hosted at the WordPress.org Plugin Directory
- WordPress 2.3.2: mylinkorder2-3-2.zip
- WordPress 2.3: mylinkorder2-3.zip
- WordPress 2.2: mylinkorder-2-2.zip
- WordPress 2.1: mylinkorder-2-1-3.zip
Updates:
- Update 3/19/2008: With 2.5 coming up, I've moved all future downloads to the WordPress Plugin directory. This page will stay up as a testament to this plugin's popularity over the past 2 years.
- Update 2/09/2008: Works with 2.3.3, just copy taxonomy.php again.
- Update 9/30/2007: Updated to WP 2.3. The category table got nuked this release so you'll need to go back and order your categories again (link order is preserved).
- Update 6/30/2007: The release you've all been waiting for!!! Built in widget support, hacking the widgets.php file is a thing of the past. I'm also dropping support for WP1.5, if you really really need it just ask, but seriously if you are on 1.5 it is about time to upgrade.
- Update 5/17/2007: Javascript include bug fix, won't mess up the editor now, redownload if you had the previous 2.1.3 version. 2.2 update coming soon but current version should still be compatible. Things are good with 2.2.
- Update 5/10/2007: Big update! I rewrote the interface and replaced the unfriendly up and down arrows with spiffy new drag and drop ordering. Check it out, definitely worth the upgrade, I've only tested on 2.1.3 but it should work on any 2.1.x install.
- Update 1/22/2007: Published WP 2.1 version of plugin. Eliminates need to modify core files but uses new WP template function. Also eliminated up/down arrow images, now uses plain buttons to avoid problems with image paths. See updated instructions above.
- Released January 2006 for WP 1.5 and soon after 2.0, many updates followed 2.3, 2.2, and 2.
Installation Instructions
- Unzip packed files
- Move mylinkorder.php to /wp-content/plugins/
- 2.3 only: move taxonomy.php to /wp-includes/
- Activate the "My Link Order" plugin on the Plugins menu
- Go to the "My Link Order" tab under Blogroll and specify your desired order for both link categories and links in each category.
- WIDGETS: Just drop the "My Link Order" widget that gets installed with the plugin and that's it!
- Modify sidebar template to use correct function (additional parameters seperated by ampersands):
wp_list_bookmarks('orderby=order&category_orderby=order');
If you have a problem with it not ordering, make sure you have a plain "&" and not "& amp;" between the parameters which could happen if you copy straight out of the browser. Also make sure quotes are plain straight ones, some people have had problems when copying and pasting code out of the browser and PHP chokes on the bad quote character.
Thanks for checking out my first WordPress plugin, My Link Order. I wrote this because WordPress is sorely missing the ability to manually set the order link categories and links themselves will appear in. WordPress provides seven options for ordering just links (ordering categories is mysteriously absent) and they all seem to tip toe around the idea of actually letting the user explicitly set the order they want. If you have any problems let me know, I am more than happy to help resolve any issues you may have. I’ll respond to your comment through email so be sure to put a valid email in. Even if you don’t have problems leave a comment or throw a couple bucks to buy some beer.
Can you tell me if your plugin will allow me to control the order of link output in my theme editor sidebar section? Currently I have over thirty template files on my customised theme, and they don’t render in alphabetical order in the theme editor page, which is a nightmare when you’re trying to locate a particular file.
I had asked the WordPress forum about this, but I did not get a reply.
My plugin will let you order your link categories and links manually (instead of the various methods like by id, by name, etc built into WordPress), giving you more control over the order they appear on your front page.
You are looking for something a little different it seems (just sorting the files by name on the theme editor page), but it is definetly possible to do. I’ll look at the source code and see what it will take to do. Which version of WordPress are you using?
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Yeah, my links are in the sidebar too…what can we do about that? I’m not afraid to manually edit the code, but I don’t know what to edit! Great idea though, man, I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time…as important as page real estate is these days….
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I am having a problem when clicking on the “My Link Order” tab:
WordPress database error: [Table 'thetais_wordpress.wp_linkcategories' doesn't exist]
ALTER TABLE `wp_linkcategories` ADD `my_cat_order` INT( 4 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′
WordPress database error: [Table 'thetais_wordpress.wp_links' doesn't exist]
ALTER TABLE `wp_links` ADD `my_link_order` INT( 4 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'my_cat_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT * FROM ibc_linkcategories ORDER BY my_cat_order ASC
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.
This plugin should have been implemented by WP by default, but luckily you can help us poor users.
I have encountered an error though, when displaying the sidebar::
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'my_link_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel , CHAR_LENGTH(link_name) AS length , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated FROM ibc_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category = 6 ORDER BY my_link_order ASC
Hope you can help me.
Dunno why… but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me in WP 2.0.1. :(
New version is up for 2.0.1, let me know if it resolves your issue.
Don’t know what the problem is, everything went well with the installation, but the categories don’t update (reorder). Tried deleting cache, etc to see if it was my computer, but no go. Any ideas?
I have had the same problem as Joan – everything installed lovely, but after setting the links in the order I wanted them, the links in the sidebar didn’t change their order.
I got some database errors in my link section when i set this up — folllowed every step verbatim.
Hi – it seemed to set up ok for 2.0.1, but I think I may have gotten the wrong impression of what it does. It reorders “link categories”? This is different from the section called “Categories” right? I want to reorder my different categories and can’t seem to figure out how – under “link categories” all I have is “blogroll”
Frustrating.
I’m using wp_list_cats() instead of wp_get_links. It would be awesome if the plug-in could handle that as well.
Oh, it does. Awesome.
Great job with this plugin. Just what I was looking for.
HI. The plugin is great, it does exactly what is expected. Thanks!
I did have to remove some code from your verison of links.php though as the line near 552 was inserting my link categories in a with a cat-ID and i twas messing up my layout. I simply removed the additinonal and now it works great.
Thank you.
Hey it works great!! Thanks buddy.
Works great for me too in 2.0.1. Thanks for a great plugin!
“Don’t know what the problem is, everything went well with the installation, but the categories don’t update (reorder). Tried deleting cache, etc to see if it was my computer, but no go. Any ideas?”
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“I have had the same problem as Joan – everything installed lovely, but after setting the links in the order I wanted them, the links in the sidebar didn’t change their order.”
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I have the same problem as the two users quoted above. Followed all the instructions, well at least the ones I understood.
“Set Category Sort Order dropdown to “Manual” on categories you wish have links manually ordered”
In 2.0.1, there is no “Manual” in the “Sort Order” drop down box.
Thanks for any help.
Here’s what my links section looks like…
get_results(“SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”);
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
cat_id; ?>”> cat_name; ?>
cat_id); ?>
Which part do I replace with get_links_list()? I tried replacing wp_get_links() with get_links_list(). While that worked with the order, it also lists all the categories and links in each category. That is, say I have two categories. On called “Blogroll” and one called “Random”. Blogroll has three links, “Blogroll Link 1″, “Blogroll Link 2″, and “Blogroll Link 3″. Random has three links as well, “Random Link 1″, “Random Link 2″, and “Random Link 3″.
So the way the blog would look with my changes is…
Links:
Blogroll
Blogroll
Blogroll Link 1
Blogroll Link 2
Blogroll Link 3
Random
Random Link 1
Random Link 2
Random Link 3
Random
Blogroll
Blogroll Link 1
Blogroll Link 2
Blogroll Link 3
Random
Random Link 1
Random Link 2
Random Link 3
So what am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
This looks like a great plugin and I’d really like to install it. I am just worriied about the need to alter core files. What happens when it comes time to upgrade WP? Will I need to remember that I altered those files?
I’m a wordpress newbie so sorry if the answer to this is obvious. Thanks!
Jesse,
You’ll want to replace that entire block in your template with the single line, get_links_list(); That will loop through the categories for you in the order you have specified. There are a number of functions that ouput the links, but as far as I can tell this is the only one that makes sense to use in the context of my plugin.
Andrew
Rena,
When it comes time to upgrade, the core files I alter in my plugin will be overwritten which essentially disables the plugin. Whenever there is a WP upgrade I will publish a new version of my plugin and you’ll need to install it again. The files I alter don’t seem to have changed much, if any, in the past three releases, but I have not taken the time to do compares and see if they are indeed different. I’ll probably do it the next time to avoid duplicating my work if I have to. Also, if you uninstall or upgrade the plugin, your orders will be saved so you don’t have to redo them.
So the answer to your question is, you don’t need to remember which files you altered, just that you have to re-install my plugin when you update WP.
One more question. As I stated in a previous comment, the instructions state that you have to a category’s “Sort Order” to “manual” in order to get the links in that category to sort the way you’d like using this plugin. However, I don’t see a “manual” option in the “Sort Order” drop down. All I see are “Name”, “ID”, “URL”, “Rating”, “Updated”, “Random”, and “Name Length”.
Double check you copied over link-categories.php to the wp-admin folder. The only reason the option wouldn’t be showing up is if that file wasn’t updated.
Yeah, that was the problem. Thanks for the help!
I tried to installl in WP 2.0.2. I follow the instructions but I can’t see it at plugins menu.
Thanks for any help.
New version to match 2.0.2 is up, no changes were needed so just changed the file name to avoid any confusion.
If you have any problems with the upgrade to 2.0.2 check the permissions on the mylinkorder plugin directory. Mine got reset when I copied the new WP files over and lost its read permission. Everything worked, but the up and down images used for ordering were gone. A chmod 755 fixed that right up.
Installed the plugin on WP 2.02 this afternoon. Works like a charm. Thanks for the plugin!
I just wanted to post a pointer to folks who had what seemed to be a clean install, but are finding no results of success on their links pages.
In my case, it turned out that my FTP program hadn’t actually overwritten the two core WP files, even though it acted as though it had. I deleted the two files from the server entirely, uploaded the plugin’s version of those two, and all was well.
Sweet plugin, BTW! Thanks.
It would be great if you could hook up with the WP developers and find a way to stop involving the core WP files. Can they not add hooks that would let you plug in entirely? This is a long-overdue functionality…I would think they’d be into helping you integrate it more smoothly. Then you wouldn’t have to keep issuing new versions every time they do. (And we all wouldn’t have to re-install each time.)
Either way…great plugin.
Looked high and low for this function. Installed without a hitch on WP 1.5. Thank you!!
Wish I could get this right but for some reason, despite repeated deleting and re-adding of the link-catagories.php file, I cannot get manual to show up in the drop down. Checked the permissions on the plugin folder, everything. *taps head against screen* lol
Got it! In the instructions, I was confused because I was trying to find the Manual in the landing page for Links. When I went to Edit the catagory, the Manual selection was in there and upon setting it, everything was fine.
Thanks for this great improvement!
Are you going to (or is there a plug-in that allows this already) make a plug-in that gives this same type of control over the order of the pages section of WP?
I’ve had that request before and have just been really busy for the past month or so. I’ve got spring break coming up and I’ll do it then, so check back in 2 weeks.
Great – Thank You!
Quick question though….
The plug-in works great for the categories that I create but seems to ignore the cat’s that WP automatically generates (IE Links, Categories and Archives sections).
Did I do somehting wrong in the installation or does the current plug-in ignore those? They don’t show up in the list to be moved around.
Nope, you didn’t do anything wrong. Under the hood, WP displays each of those things separately so you have to think of each of them as their own contained block. It would be possible to get them to work with my plugin, but not without further modification to the core files, database, and templates.
I am working on bringing up these issues with the WP developers because something needs to be done from the top, not by individual users.
Wow, thanks, this works like a charm!
Hey, great job on the plugin, but i have a problem. I just updated my wordpress files to the newest version, and i keep getting this SQL error, when i sort the categories by “manual”
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_manual' in 'order clause']
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated , UNIX_TIMESTAMP(link_updated) AS link_updated_f FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category = 1 ORDER BY link_manual ASC
Why would this start happening only after the update? Any suggestions?
What a let down! I thought it would help me reorganise my WP Categories! :(
Ah well, good on you for catering to user needs anyway. I’m sure I’ll end up using this plugin at some point. :)
nik! My Category Order is in the works just give me a little more time.
Hi it doesn’t seem to work with mine. I see it but I can reorder links even though it appears as though I should be able to.
What do I have to do to my theme to fix that.
Just writing to say thanks. Worked like a charm and I am a virtual idiot when it comes to rummaging around under the hood of WP. Agree with earlier commenters on the virtue of being able to reassign the seemingly unalterable “pages”; “archives”; “categories”; “meta” categories, but will happily leave that for another day.
Wonderfull!!! Very practical!
Thanks so much! This makes my blogrolling life so much easier!
I know it’s incredibly early to be asking this, but does this plugin work with v. 2.0.3?
Would it be possible to edit the installation instructions (for us idiots, it just took me FOREVER to figure it out and only then by reading all the comments) to mention that you will have to edit EACH CATEGORY’s settings in the Links menu to manual? For those of us just starting to use WP (particularly when we’ve moved from other less spiffy blogware) it can be a bit confusing.
Hell, I’d rewrite your instructions for you if you wanted.
Ang,
Thanks for your feedback on the instructions. I will get that added in there and try to make it a little clearer overall. I enjoy getting feedback from those who use my plugin, I just wish more people would comment (49 comments with almost 2000 downloads) about their experience.
You know what would be brilliant? Telling people to not use your code if they have any themes istalled other than the classic or the default.
You know what would be almost brilliant? Telling people how to fix their worpress install AFTER your code has rendered it usuless.
You know what is completely stupid? NOT doing one oif the above.
Thanks for your crappy instructions – ridiculous amount of grief this has caused me.
RoQ,
My plugin uses the standard built in WP functions to display the links. I can’t be responsible for any theme that deviates from this and uses its own. If you bothered to take a look at the code I had to work with, it was very inflexible and it doesn’t get much better than this.
I would say 80% of people that bothered to give me feedback had absolutely no problem with their installation. Others who presented their problems to me had complete support and every person you see in the comments that had a problem was contacted by me personally and had their problem resolved through e-mail. I will be happy to post all of those e-mail threads or forward them to you if you want to take back you statement that I don’t help people with their installs.
So instead of doing something reasonable like presenting your problem and asking for help you took the easy, childish way out.
I’m coming up on 2000 downloads of my plugin and the number of problems people have reported is actually very small. I’m sorry things didn’t work out and good luck finding another way to manually order your links.
Roq: You know what would be stuipd? Using free code, breaking your (customized) wordpress blog and then complaining to the author for not warning that you’d break your blog!
When I saw your comment above — “My Category Order is in the works!” — I realized that I installed this plugin under a complete misunderstanding — I though it would help me change the order of the categories themselves, not the links within categories. Just wanted to say that I do hope you find time to make that plugin — it is sorely needed!
But thanks for your work.
Checkout what’s going on in trunk and you’ll see things much much different.
It seen no body have the anwer for this problem
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_manual' in 'order clause']
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category = 8 ORDER BY link_manual ASC
and i seen some people having this problem
i upgrade to wordpress 2.0.3 and puff the problem came in
any one with a real Anwer BTW Great Plugin…
When you upgraded core files I had to modify were overwritten. You’ll need to copy link-categories.php to /wp-admin/ and links.php to /wp-includes/ again. This is one of the downsides to my plugin but sadly it is necessary to get this kind of functionality from WP.
Hi,
It’s a great plugin!
My link categories are now sorted manually, but my links are not. But even I sorted my links manually as well, the are still completely unsorted.
Do you have any idea to solve it?
For each link category you have to go in and change the “Sort Order”. Go to the Links -> Links Categories admin page, and click edit on a category, there will be a dropdown for sorting methods, choose manual. Links in that category will now display in the order you set in the plugin. Hope that helps.
Listen everyone!
This is what you have to do to get rid of that database error:
.. or something simillar
Just go to the admin section ‘Links->My link order’ and set a link list order..any other than the one you have now. Save and… it works.
Cheers
Hi Andrew,
Just a small note – your plugin still says version 1.0 on my WP Plugins page, even though it’s MyLinkOrder 2.02 that I have installed. Just a tiny oversight I assume, but I figured you’d want to know. I actually came back here and re-dowloaded 2.02 and was in the process of re-installing it when I realized that’s what I already had installed. :-\ No big whoop though. It’s an easy install. :-)
BTW, RoQ (@ comment #51) was being a jerk. Kudos for being so courteous in your reply to him.
I am having the same problem as above
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘link_manual’ in ‘order clause’]
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category = 8 ORDER BY link_manual ASC
I’ve tried everything that was suggested in the comments above,
I am running wp2.03 and downloaded the latest plugin
thanks
Hello all,
I just installed Mylinkorder, unfortunately it doesn’t work. Oviously the plugin tries to read something from the wrong database. I receive the error message “Table ‘db1051044-cpg.wp_linkcategories’ doesn’t exist”. db1051044-cpg is my Coppermine database.
How can I fix that?
Regards,
Dominik
I’m also getting the same database error as so many others have reported. This only happened when I upgraded WP to 2.0.3, so apparently there is some sort of compatibility issue involved here.
I did try to reset the link order in My Link Order, as suggested above, but this had no effect.
Is there any chance that a fix will be forthcoming? Your plugin is great, and we’d really like to be able to keep using it.
As a follow-up, I just deleted link-categories.php and links.php from the latest download, and replaced them with the files from the 2.0.1 download. That corrected the problem immediately. I’m wondering if possibly one of those files has something out of place in the latest download?
When you upgrade to a new WP version you have to re-install those two files since they get overwritten during the upgrade process. It isn’t the ideal situation but it is what I have to work with. I have to modify those files to accomplish the ordering. I could possibly create a function that could be included in the template files so that it won’t break on upgrading, but I don’t see the advantage of deviating away from the core files. Glad you got it figured out and I’ll make it clearer up top that you have to re-upload those files when upgrading.
I just found thid and was wondering if th is would help me make a links page without the blogroll?
I’ve sccumulated quite a few nice links over the years and would like to list them on a links page
Thanks!
My sidebar is built dynamically and uses the wp_get_links function. I was able to use your plugin and the extra database column the plugin utilizes by changing my database query from:
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");to this:
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories ORDER BY `my_cat_order` ASC");Thanks for the great plugin, it is exactly what I was looking for.
I think this tool messed up my internal permalink system.
There are no more internal incoming links since I installed it 6 days ago.
Using wordpress 2.0.3. and the template “greening”
Is your “internal permalink system” just the standard stuff built into wp or something custom that you have installed? You are the first person to report any problems with permalinks.
Thanks so much for this. Exactly what I was looking for.
ok
Now the first time it never worked despite me doing that get links thing.
I am going to try to delete it from my plugin file and do a new install.
Which version for 2.0?
And just i case where would I have to change that get links thing ?
How do I back up files in the wp administration thing? I seemed to have caused some parse problem last time I did anything in there so I want to be careful
Great plugin.
I would love to have a similar feature to organize page order. Any idea how to do that? Or can you create one?
N/M I found on your site where you explain it. Thanks!
Is the latest version of MyLinkOrder (2.0.2 & 2.0.3) also work on WP 2.0.4?
I’ll have to check it out to be sure, but it looks like they haven’t done anything that would affect the plugin, which has been the case since 2.0. If you want to go ahead and try it (just backup the files I point out in the instructions) there isn’t much harm (if something does blow up just restore the backed up files). Either way I’ll upgrade and test it within the next couple days to be sure.
Yep, works just fine in 2.0.4 – no adverse affects that I can see.
Fantastic plugin, exactly what I was looking for. Install was a breeze and worked first time with no tweaking – many thanks!
thanks – exactly what I was looking for also. Much apprecaited.
Great! Plugin worked first time. Clear instructions, everything was straight forward. I’ve been looking for this for a while.
Andrew, thanks for this plugin. I was hoping you could point me in the right direction for fixing a problem that I’m having. I installed the plugin with 0 problems, and I can order links withing categories. I cannot, however, order how the categories get displayed. I make the change in the plugin, but there’s no effect on the live site.
Please steer me in the right direction.
Hi,
Thankyou for the plugin. However, there is a conflict with the “coppermine” plugin. I suspect the two plug use the same variable to store the database name, as a reasult when I turn on the coppermine plugin, it try to look for album.wp_linkcategories.
Any idea how can I fix it? Thanks.
I just got your plugin installed without any problems(except the links.php and link-categories.php files were not included in the download, so I got them from the mylinkorder-1-5-2.zip file)
I have set all the categories to Manual now but when I go to the “My Link Order” tab the two arrows are not there so I cannot change the order.
Any ideas???
Hi, I installed, and when I switch to Link order “Manual” I get the following error:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_manual' in 'order clause']
SELECT link_url, link_name, link_image, link_target, link_description, link_rating, link_rel , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated , UNIX_TIMESTAMP(link_updated) AS link_updated_f FROM wp_links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ AND link_category = 1 ORDER BY link_manual ASC
Any Hints?
Looks like your links.php didn’t get updated or you aren’t using get_links_list() in your sidebar template. Check those out and let me know, but those are the most common reasons for an error like that.
on my 2.02 install category order works and link order shows correctly on plugin page, but not in sidebar..? please help! thx!
I have the same problem as “eyetag” (post no 86). The plugin page shows exactly how I would like the link order, but it still sort it alphabetically in the sidebar.
I found the trouble; the sidebar.php didn’t used get_links_list(). Just as you pointed out in another reply here.
err…
Do not use hardcoded database table adresses… (in alter “alter table”…)
Use ie “$wpdb->linkcategories”, ’cause “wp_” is only default table prefix… not, the only possible.
An updated zip file is available using the wordpress database object. This plugin was the first code I had written for WP so I guess it shows.
Thanks for a great plugin, I have been attempting to fix that by looking into the source files without any luck…But now it works exactly as wanted just after a few clicks:)
Thank you!
Hi Andrew,
Hope you can help. I’ve downloaded and installed your plugin as instructed. However my link categories do not appear in the order I chose. I think this might be something to do with the Tiga (with sidebar widgets) theme I’m using. I don’t really know much about this but I’m assuming the problem would be with sidebar.php? In the Tiga theme folder I’ve opened sidebar.php and have isolated the following section which I assume refers to the links/categories.
get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
if (get_links($link_cat->cat_id, '', '', '', FALSE, '', FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE, FALSE)) {
?>
cat_id; ?>">
cat_name; ?>
cat_id); ?>
Any ideas what is going wrong and which pieces of code I would need to change?
Thanks in advance. Greg.
oh, that code didn’t all appear. I’ll try emailing it to you instead.
Thanks.
The following code will do the trick. Slightly annoying that the Tiga theme doesn’t use the standard method of getting the categories. Doing a query like that in the theme template is usually a big no-no. Watch out if you upgrade to WP 2.1 coming out some time soon, your theme will most likely break.
<!-- Begin - Links from the 'Links Manager'-->
<?php
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM
$wpdb->linkcategories ORDER BY my_cat_order asc");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
if (get_links($link_cat->cat_id, '', '', '', FALSE, '', FALSE,
FALSE, -1, FALSE, FALSE)) {
?>
<div class="left-widget-title"
id="linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>">
<?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?>
</div>
<div class="left-widget">
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links("category=$link_cat->cat_id&orderby=manual"); ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php
}
}
?>
<!-- End - Links from the 'Links Manager'-->
Andrew
Great plugin, thanks!
Had some problems in the beginning but got it finally. Works great. I suppose you have to do those installation steps IN ORDER to get it going…
didnt set “order links” to manual before i started reordering them. that messed it all up i guess.
just reset everything and do the steps again it should work fine then.
Thanks a bunch for that plugin!
oh, and the same plugin for sections would be awesome.
hope you spoil us with that one kinda soon!
I just saw that 2.0.5 is out (one day after I took the time to update to 2.0.4, ‘doh)
Could you look if this plugin works as it should with 2.0.5 and tell me before I dare to install this =P
Thanks for the notification about 2.0.5 Soilheart, I thought I signed up to be notified by email. Anyways, updated the plugin to include changes to link-categories.php.
I just used your plugin on a client site and you SAVED my life. I’m bookmarking you and using you for all of my client blog sites in the future. I’ll get a link to you up on my site asap. Thank you! You can see it here: artsyfran.com
THANK YOU for this elegant and handy plug in. A very nice piece of work!
Phew! Just great. Had headaches trying to sort my links the way i wanted. Well done! Thanks!
For some reason the up and down arrows arent showing up so i can’t organise my links :/
Thanks for the plugin, but I can’t seem to get it to work. First I got the database error, which went away after using the Links Order page. However, the links order isn’t changing. I uploaded the correct php file and am using get_links_list(), so I’m not sure why it isn’t working.
Hy!
Thank you, this Plugin is very nice!
download link doesnt work
Links seem to be working fine for me. Maybe just a server hiccup.
i keep getting a blank page when i activate the latest plugin with 2.0.5
Hi there,
I just stumbled across your plugin for My Link Order.
Duh.
This should be included in the standard build of WP if you ask me, bundled with Word Press, as part of the release.
Something you might want to mention in your instructions- TURN OFF THE WP CACHE if it’s enabled.
Man, I sat here making changes, refreshing, and it didn’t take. So I dug through WP, checking permissions on the files, thinking it’s not able to write or something.
Then it dawned on me. WP Cache. As soon as I disabled it, bingo, works like a charm.. might make mention of this in the instructions so others won’t sit here like a chucklehead for hours on end like I just did.
I’ll learn. Eventually. ;)
Now that this issue is solved, I’m off to install the other ordering plugins. Thanks for these, they’re the answer to some big headaches.
Congrats on the engagement by the way.
Steve
Worked great for me right out of the box on a new 2.0.5 install. This should definitely be a standard WordPress feature. Thanks for the plugin.
im using 2.0.6 and i cant get it to work. Why isn’t this already apart of wp!!!
I haven’t updated My Link Order to 2.0.6 yet, it was on my list of stuff to do this weekend. Check back in a few days and I should have a new version up.
I can’t get My Link Order to work! I copied the files as you suggested, but it won’t sort the links, can you advise?
i keepgetting a blank page when trying to activate the plugin
Well that might be a first, is the “Activate Plugin” page coming up blank or when you go to the “My Link Order” page?
Also I have not updated for 2.0.6 or 2.0.7 yet so if you are upgraded to the newest version then that might be the problem.
i’ve tried it with a fresh WP 2.0.7 install and its the only plugin, the activate plugin page is blank,
I also have it on 2.0.5, its still a blank page when activating plugin, i have another version of 2.0.5 that its working on but not sure why it won’t work on this one, i used the same mylinkorder folder as well but one it works and the other it doesn’t
Not sure there’s a lot I can tell you mushu since I’m a little stumped. It might be erroring out but the error message is hidden, check out the source and see if there’s anything there.
2.05, I installed it, but it doesn’t offer “manual” (I’m using tiga-06 theme)
So, I see the plugin, change the order, but it does not take effect. Am I supposed to re-upload my *backed up* files? or overwrite with the new ones? The links are still there.. so I’m a bit confused.
Well, like others on this board, I found (finally) my own error – and I think people are not saying it loudly or clearly enough – MANUAL IS FOUND IN THE AREA FOR LINK CATEGORIES!!!! Now, it’s working fine
WP 2.1 is now out and it would appear that the current version won’t work because of changed file names in wp-admin, etc.
Is a new version likely to be released for 2.1?
Love the plugin…it works like a charm in 2.0x
Guess I’m not following you here.
I just upgraded to 2.1, and this plugin is no longer working for me. I downloaded and installed the 2.1 plugin version. Where do I go to select ‘manual’ link order?
Also, do we not change the links.php and link-categories.php files in this version of My Link Order?
Also, in the instructions is something I don’t understand, at least, I’m not sure where it goes in the sidebar:
Thanks in advance for your help. If anybody would like to take pity on a poor blogger, my email is rickscheibner AT gmail DOT com
Hey Rick, I’m still working on differentiating between 2.1 and the old stuff. You no longer need to copy those 2 files, just the plugin folder. In your template find the spot where your links are being displayed with get_links_list();. 2.1 has introduced a new function wp_list_bookmarks that is more flexible and allows the links to be ordered how you want without modifying the core files. The following is the minumum you need to display your links:
wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
I’ll revise the page to help make things more clear.
Andrew, thanks for your quick response. I’ll disregard those two files.
I’m still not exactly sure where the additional code goes, though. I see this:
But I’m not exactly sure where to put this:
wp_list_bookmarks(’orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
Thanks again for the support here.
Thanks for the reply at WP. I’m using 3 column K2.
I installed this plugin and it didn’t seem to do anything. I tried replacing get_links_list() with
wp_list_bookmarks(’orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
in sidebar.php but it did not seem to make the plugin functional in the sidebar for 3CK2.
In your installation instructions, is there some reason why the wp_list_bookmarks() modification comes after ordering the bookmarks? Does the order somehow dictate the modification you need to do?
It seems like you are saying just paste:
wp_list_bookmarks(’orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
into the template, but that did not do the trick for me (though it did not _cause_ errors either, so WP seems to work fine with it present.)
A
Just wanted to say thanks. Used to do it the hard way: remote mySQL.
Thank you so much for this wonderful plugin. It did everything I needed it to do after encountering problems with the 2.1 update.
Thanks once again!
After updating to 2.1 this plug-in was very nice. Very simple to use and works perfectly!
Thank you!
Great plugin. However, with 2.1 the link categories are in rather huge font while the links within the categories are normal sized but heavily indented.
Try as I might, I cannot find where or how to modify the size of the category font and how to lessen the indent on the individual links within the categories. any help you could provide would be appreciated.
Hi.
Sorry, but when I try to start your mylinkorder-plugin, V2.1 under WordPress 2.1 (german), I get the following error-message.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 67584 bytes) in /mnt/kw2/08/565/00000012/htdocs/blog/wp-admin/menu.php on line 46
After that, access to the admin-site only after deleting the plugin from the plugin-directory.
Whats the problem?
I could be missing something easy here, but would appreciate any help you could offer. I upgraded to WP2.1 and then upgraded this plugin to 2.1 as well (awesome plugin, by the way). I’m using the Sidebar Widgets plugin to manage my sidebar. I can see the controls for the plugin under the “Blogroll” tab, but the changes do not affect the order of the links. I’ve tried replacing the code in the widgets.php plugin file, but I must be messing up because I keep crashing the blog when I do that. Any recommendations?
Please forgive… I figured it out right after I posted. Sorry!
Note for those using WP 2.1 and a K2 theme : you need to apply the modification to the links.php file (in the /k2/app/modules folder), not the sidebar template. Then it works ! ;)
outstanding plug-in. Thanks a lot for creating it.
I have my links in each link category displayed alphabetically. Would it be possible to make it so they appear in random order each time one visits the site or refreshes the page? Kind of like a link shuffle…
Hi there,
I just installed the plugin and followed the instructions given, and received this error. Can you please give me some guidance?
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_count' in 'where clause']
SELECT * FROM wp_categories where link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_order ASC
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
Adam
Please disregard previous comment. I’m on 2.0.5 and downloaded the wrong version;)
I’ve installed the proper one and it’s working great! Thanks for an awesome plugin!
Adam
Sorry to be a pain dude, but can you tell me where the up and down images are supposed to go? I’ve now installed both mylinkorder and mypageorder, but the arrow images don’t show?
Thanks;)
Sorry about not being too clear about where to install my plugins, each of the plugins need to have their own subdirectory in the plugins folder so plugins/mylinkorder and plugins/mypageorder.
Okay, I spent an hour or two with this and I can’t get it to work. I followed the instructions, uploaded your files to my blog, activated the plug-in and I edited my themes/defualt/sidebar.php to look like this at the end. What’s wrong?
Okay, so the code change is to replace the call to
get_links(list)by
wp_list_bookmarks('orderby=order&category_orderby=order');The unclear part is WHERE to make this change. I am using my own tweaked version of the default theme. So first I changed default\sidebar.php, no joy.
Then I changed default\links.php, still no joy.
Then I changed in plugins\widgets\widgets.php, JOY.
I wonder if it would still work if I went back and reverted sidebat.php and links.php?
Whoops, I meant the code phrase to replace is
get_links_list()If you are using widgets then you shouldn’t need to modify the sidebar.php and maybe links.php (is links.php for the sidebar or is it a page template?). It is hard for me to tell you exactly where to modify the code because there are so many variations between themes, so I’m forced to be a little generic. Glad you got it going.
Upgraded with 2.1 and it’s working, but I want to turn off the link category being displayed on one of my sites. I’ve worked around it for now with CSS that hides that specific ID & H2 combo, but is there a way to make it not display the category name?
For wp_list_bookmarks, there is a parameter that lets you limit which categories get displayed. Say you had 5 link categories with id’s 1-5 but wanted to exclude cat 4 you’d use the following:
wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order&category=1,2,3,5′);
Would be nice if there was a parameter that worked the other way around, something like “excludecategory”
Hi there – I like the plugin… or how it looks like it should work, but it doesnt seem to be working for me.
My sidebar code looks like this:
Hmm ok that didnt quite work out… can I mail you? Really appreciated.
Andrew,
First off, this plugin is awesome! The links ordered correctly when I was using WP 2.0.x. Now that I’ve upgraded to WP 2.1 the links are in a strange order. I just can’t seem to get your plugin to work with widgits. I tried what Rudy said above, but still no luck. Any suggestions?
Sorry to say, I still haven’t got this one to work. I’ve done EVERYTHING by the book, and still no luck. Too bad, too…my previous installation worked great. I’ve had nothing but bad luck since WP upgraded to 2.1.
If you can’t get it to work then just email me your sidebar template and i’ll stick it in.
froman118 at gmail.com
I am getting this error which I have seen in several other posts:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_count' in 'where clause']
SELECT * FROM wp_categories where link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_order ASC
I installed and activated the plug-in then changed the sidebar.php which was:
Links
‘, ”, ”, 0, ‘name’, 0, 0, -1, 0); ?>
to:
Links
0, ‘name’, 0, 0, -1, 0); ?>
But then when I go to “My Link Order” tab, I get the error above. Is there a step that I missed?
Andrew, you and I emailed each other back and forth for a while a few weeks ago. I’m coming back to this to look at it with fresh eyes and see if there’s anything that I missed. Last we talked, you said that my process was correct, and that you weren’t sure exactly what the problem is.
But, I’ll go ahead and email you my sidebar template so you can take a look at it. I’m using the sidebar widgets, for whatever that’s worth. Thanks for the continued support here.
Judie,
Are you on WP 2.1? “link_count” is a new column in 2.1 so either your database didn’t get upgraded correctly or you are on an older WP version and grabbed the wrong plugin version.
I’m currently using WP version 2.0 and installed your plug-in. I had such high hopes with this as I have ALOT OF LINKS that I wanted to organize, however, I can’t get it to work. Even after re-ordering the links and their categories under “my link order”, the links appear the same way they did before on my blog. Also, as described by a couple others, I DO NOT get a “manual” option in the drop down menu. I do when I go to create a new link category, but I receive this error message:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/atcfnm/domains/allthingscfnm.net/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:8) in /home/atcfnm/domains/allthingscfnm.net/public_html/wp-content/plugins/link-categories.php on line 78
Now the category will show up even after getting this error, but that still doesn’t fix the main problem of not being able to organize the links and their categories like I should with this plug-in. Any ideas?
I’m using the Anaconda 0.7 theme by the way.
I have this error when I click on Activate in the plugins menu:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in mylinkorder.php on line 170
(WordPress 2.1.1)
Any ideas ?
Thanks :)
Ced,
Try downloading it again, I found the same problem on my other plugin but hadn’t updated this one yet.
Same error :s
Arg missed one occurrence of the problematic syntax, try it again.
Hello,
I am looking forward to using your excellent plugin, but unfortunately I have hit a minor snag. When I install and activate the plugin, then go to the “My Link Order” section under blogroll, I get an error saying that the wp_categories table does not exist. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
Man, this works great, but it totally dies when Widgets are activated. Any plans to Widgetize your plug-ins in the future?
It works with widgets but you have to either modify the widget plugin files or create a new widget which someone else has already done, http://blog.agladman.com/2007/02/14/my-link-order-widgetized/. You still use my plugin to set the order of links but that will get it going with widgets.
Huh – I tried that one and it didn’t work, and I’ve been unsuccessful in widgetizing it myself. Ah well – great plug-in either way!
Regarding 2.1, I don’t understand step 5 of the instructions. Is this an edit in to sidebar.php in Theme Editor? If so, I don’t find anywhere.
Am I supposed to paste: in sidebar.php?
I had this working in prior version and love it. I have to get it working again.
Thanks.
Hmmm. Previous post didn’t take code I pasted in. I’ll try this…
Do I paste “wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’); in sidebar.php?
I use the theme Green Marinée 1.0. The original sidebar.php contains ‘, ”, ”, 0, ‘name’, 0, 0, -1, 0); ?> if I replace this with: I get:
Blogroll
BLOGROLL
followed correctly by the items in My order. I am unhappy with the:
Blogroll
BLOGROLL
but am unable to correct this. Can anyone assist me? Thanks in advance.
Previous post didn’t take code I pasted in. I’ll try this… I use the theme Green Marinée 1.0. The original sidebar.php contains get_links(‘-1′, ”, ”, ”, 0, ‘name’, 0, 0, -1, 0); if I replace this with: wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’); I get:
Blogroll
BLOGROLL
followed correctly by the items in My order. I am unhappy with the:
Blogroll
BLOGROLL
but am unable to correct this. Can anyone assist me? Thanks in advance.
the first Blogroll is a result of:
the second one over which I have no control is according to the Code Source: BLOGROLL
see: http://www.infinita.fi/blog
Previous post didn’t take code I pasted in. I’ll try this…
the first Blogroll is a result of:
h3 Blogroll /h3
the second one over which I have no control is according to the Code Source: ul li id=”linkcat-2″ class=”linkcat” h2 BLOGROLL /h2
see: http://www.infinita.fi/blog
So, after a few hours of messing with this, I finally looked a bit closer at the code and got it to work. Duh. I’m running WordPress 2.1, with sidebar widgets installed, and the Kubrick/default theme, for now. At first, I couldn’t get the plugin to work on the journal page itself, though it sorted the links just fine in the admin area. Then I saw other people having similar issues, so I thought I’d post my solution in case it helps someone else.
Instead of editing any of the theme files, you need to edit the actual sidebar widget via the admin/plugins section. The function to change is as follows (note the commented out original code)
function widget_links($args) {
global $wp_db_version;
extract($args);
if ( $wp_db_version $before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title));
wp_list_bookmarks('orderby=order&category_orderby=order');
}
}
okay, so that code paste didn’t work out quite as planned =.= (d’oh)
But basically, you want to replace the get_links_list call with the example given by the plugin author, AS WELL AS the existing wp_list_bookmarks call within that same widget_links function.
And then, as far as I can tell, everything works fine on a widgetised “platform”.
Cheers for a great plugin, by the way ^_^
Clear as mud.
Eric,
assuming that comment was directed at my posts, you can always send an email to lilimist AT gmail DOT com and I will walk you through it. I was unsure of exactly how to format the code to get it to post in here and I didn’t want to spam the comments section while I figured it out.
You’re welcome :P
I helped Eric gets his stuff going, it was the Sidebar Widgets. I took a closer look at the Widgets stuff and will post up some “official” widget installation instructions.
To be fair to both Lili and Eric, I too found the instructions posted by Lili to be a tad obtuse, until I thought to actually open the sidebar widgets file under Plugins/Plugin Editor. To make things a bit clearer, I did a search for the line “function widget_links($args)”. Then I replaced the line that says get_links_list(); and the line that says wp_list_bookmarks(array(blah blah blah)); with the line wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
That seemed to work fine. Thanx heaps to Andrew for the neat plugin, and Lili for eventually solving my frustrations getting it to work with widgets.
Oh, and Andrew, I don’t know if installing the “Live Comment Preview” plugin would help everyone who seems to be having trouble copying and pasting code here? Might be worth a test-run.
Peace,
Kadaj
Your plugin is very useful, but it creates in the source code a then a and a second .
On my site for example :
PhotoblogsA Walk Through Durham Township
Deceptive Media
Mexican Pictures
Mute
NoushinBlog
The bitter*girls
The G8
But is it your plugin or a WordPress mistake ?
Oups…
We can’t see everything I wrote.
How can I contact you ?
Awesome plugin, thanks for the good work.
I’ve found that the absolute easiest way to use this great plugin as a widget is to get the Widgetize Anything plugin (erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/11/30/widgetize-anything/) and then in a widgetize anything dragabble box just paste in:
wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);
You can see the results at dunn-olivieri-racing.com/
Two great plugins make one super widget
works fine, thank you.
Worked great with 2.0.4. Moved to 2.1.3, and now gives me:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'cat_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT * FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 AND link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_order ASC
Any ideas? I’m commenting it out for now, but I’d love to have it back! Thanks.
Hi!
Having problems with the Widgetize-Anything solution… I pasted the code (suggested by Paul #177), and get the following error code:
Sorry… the error code fir the above Comment (#180) is this:
# Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘=’ in /homepages/40/d66174348/htdocs/lokalesuche/wp-content/plugins/widgetize-anything.php(25) : eval()’d code on line 1
#
Thanks
Peter
Hi, just read the previous thread of comments a couple of times but still not clear on the widgets issue, I also got a similar ‘parse error’ – anyway great plugin, I’ll continue to work on it. Maybe I missed something.
I wish this was already included in WP. Unfortunately I it doesn’t seem to change anything for me. I’ve updated the links.php file but no affect on the ordering.
Great widget! Exactly what I was looking for, implemented with no problems. Thank you so much!
I can’t seem to get this to work. I followed the directions to a t. Should we relace the ‘get links list’ in the links.php as well? I’m using WP 2.2 and seoprotheme 1.5.
I’d really like to use this.
Red all comments but not realy familiar with PHP. What exactly must be done to get the plugin working in my Sidebar(Template: DaisyRaeGemini),-installing was no problem, but entering the code in the sidebar gives the message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_list_bookmarks() /xxxxxxxxx/content/themes/daisyraegemini/sidebar.php on line 218
My WP is 2.03,
Thanks for helping,
Lots of regards TN.
Yes! The latest version of wordpress – 2.2 – broke all the custom code I’d used to order and lay out my links list. Your plugin saved me the trouble of hunting down the change to fix it — and in the process of tweaking my css to get it looking the way I wanted, I found the solution to another problem that had been driving me nuts. You’re my new hero!
Great plugin, got it to work on my WordPress 2.2 to change link order in my blogroll, BUT, it added a title and messed up the sidebar box. My theme requires sidebar edits, widgets not enabled.
from source code:
My Links
Blogroll
See my blog to see what I mean at:
My blog
What can do to change this?
René
Sorry code tag didn’t work:
don’t know if this will
My Links
Blogroll
Thanks, Andrew, for such quick turnaround on fixing the code for my un-widget theme.
Perfection.
And you can make more than one bloglog with this?
Or work on the other categories?
I’ll have to play with it. Meantime you can see how My Links looks now on my Tales of King Tut’s Blog
I owe you a ‘Beer’,
thanks, Andrew,
René
Here’s how I got this to work with widgets.
In the widgets.php file in the widgets plug-in directory, change line 710 as follows.
Old code:
wp_list_bookmarks(array('title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title));New code:
wp_list_bookmarks(array('orderby' => 'order', 'category_orderby' => 'order', 'title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title));I hope this helps
I want to use My Link Order with the Vistered Little Theme (http://windyroad.org/software/wordpress/vistered-little-theme/). I can’t figure out where to put the replacement code for get_links_list since the sidebar (monosidebar.php or quadsidebar.php) calls a more complicated function in functions.php. (The theme uses widgets in the sidebar). Any suggestions?
If you run the lastest version of WP (2.2.+) you will need another solution.
First above mentioned widget folder in the plugins directory is useless
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Step_7:_Delete_the_old_WordPress_files
Now modify the widgets.php in the WP-includes folder
change line 398 as follows:
old code:
'title_before' => $before_title, 'title_after' => $after_title,‘orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘category_orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘title_before’=>$before_title, ‘title_after’=>$after_title,This worked for me... :-)
If you run the lastest version of WP (2.2.+) you will need another solution.
First above mentioned widget folder in the plugins directory is useless:
Quote from wordpress.org
“Delete these Files and Folders:
* wp-content/plugins/widgets folder; You only see this folder if you previously installed the Sidebar Widgets plugin. The Sidebar Widgets code conflicts with the built-in widget ability.”
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Step_7:_Delete_the_old_WordPress_files
Now modify the widgets.php in the WP-includes folder
change line 398 as follows:
old code:
'title_before' => $before_title, 'title_after' => $after_title,
new code:
'orderby' => 'order', 'category_orderby' => 'order', 'title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title,
This worked for me… :-)
YEEEAAAAAAAH! This was the widget solution! May be the Author has to pull this information into the install steps. That wont cost other users hours of trying and angrying!
By & thx
greetz from germany
194
Change in widgets.php (from WP-includes folder) line:
‘title_before’ => $before_title, ‘title_after’ => $after_title, in
‘orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘category_orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘title_before’=>$before_title, ‘title_after’=>$after_title,
doesn’t seem to work for me. (Working in WP-2.2.1) The changing proces even after several minutes keeps hanging at “Updating Link Order”. (How long does updating the linkorder take?) Anyone a solution? Thnx in advance!
194 & 196
Got it working now! (But it wrecks the typografics of the category-names in the lower part of the right sidebar. The names no longer have their bigger fontsize en -type)
Awesome plugin! Just what I wanted. I do have one request – what line of code would I delete to prevent the Categories from showing up in my link list? I just want the list of links with no category heading.
Thanks
Thanks for the request and idea for new functionality. The built in function can actually do this but the widget didn’t have options for it. I’ve added new options on the widget, so reinstall the plugin from the link below, and then check the “Uncategorized” checkbox and leave the title box blank inside the widget’s popup menu. That will make that big bold “LINKS” go away in your sidebar.
Hi Andrew!
Great plugin! :D
One minor thing though – is there a way to change the formatting of the Categories? Right now the Categories are showing up in text that’s a much larger size than any other header in my blog, and that kinda spoils the whole look of it.
Thanks
My sidebar code is this:
‘, ”, ”, FALSE, ‘url’, FALSE); ?>
how do I modify it to make this plug in work?
Thanks
sorry, can you tell I’m new at this ?
', '', '', FALSE, 'url', FALSE); ?>(hope this works)
ok – so that didn’t work either – help? how do I post code?
or this should work![]()
ok – so clearly the html “allowed” isnt’ working when you can’t add an image
the source for the image is here anyway http://nathanfillion.org/code.gif
Hi,
Nice plugin you got there, andrew. I will be using this a lot.. Thanks!
Mito
AWESOME idea, but I’m a relative n00b to just about any of this.
I have WP 2.1.3, followed your directions, and DOH, now my sidebar is simply a very sad:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘=’ in
I’m so sorry to bug you with this, but I don’t have a clue where to go from here.
Thanks in advance!
Love this plugin!
Is there any way to allow the widget to show only ONE category? I like the functionality of adding several link widgets (so I can place my link categories in different places on my sidebar – like the Morgan’s Replacemen Link Widget (http://tech.windsofstorm.net/wordpress/drop-links-widget/) does? That would be INCREDIBLE!!
I need to be able to have multiple widgets with self-ordered link lists. Do you know how to do that? I would be forever in your debt!
K
hi,
just what the doctor ordered…but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Orders nicely on the ‘my order link’ page and stays correct there, but this is not reflected on my front page! did all the usual logged out, refreshed, closed browser…
any thoughts
regards daniel
Hi Andrew,
I installed your category and link plugin. With the link plugin I got a small design problem when the site is viewed by IE 6 (FireFox is ok).
Please can you check this at http://www.turtle-trader.net/blog/ ?
Thank you very much.
Thomas
Hi, I have tried this plugin on my demo blog. I have tested the non-widgetized sidebar as well, and everything works perferfectly.
However, after widgetizing the sidebars, I found a little bug in the plugin that somehow causes the widget to not display properly. I haven’t pin-point the ‘little’ bug yet, but I believe it may have to do with styling/CSS or the hierarchical ordering of the links.
Anyway, if you’d like to see the bug for yourself, please email me.
Thank you for the hardwork!
–WPInstallation.com–
I was getting a parse error because when I copied into my sidebar php, i had to replace the apostrophe’s with regular ones. ie: ’ = ‘
Hi!
Unfortunately this version (v2.2) conflicts with Advanced TinyMCE Editor v.05 Plugin… I have had to deactivate “My Link Order” for the time being!
I am using WP 2.2.2
This is a very useful plugin.
Although I think I may have encountered the same display / design problems as others above.
The plugin seems to generate an extra tag before any heading. I noticed this because my list items have >> in front of them and there was an extra >> (with no other text) in front of the categories heading.
It travels with the widget. So if I reorder the widgets in my sidebar this little glitch follows it.
the standard widget is this
links • リンク
Vintage
Japan
Word Champ
My Link Order generates this
links • リンク
Word Champ
Vintage
Japan
the first tag and it’s closing tag are definitely out of place.
Any ideas? I’m afraid I don’t understand php code to attempt to hack it myself.
WP2.2.1 (My Link Order v2.2)
The code tag doesn’t seem to have worked above.
Have a look at the raw html!
There is an extra ul tag before the heading and it’s closing tag after it.
#194, Ferdinand, thank you! That totally did the trick for me. To the author, this is a great plug-in, and it would be even a little greater if you would have included the instructions given by Ferdinand since you’ve done at least one “update” since he posted that comment!
Issues with the extra unordered list tags are fixed so if you’ve had problems with your theme try downloading the new version.
but its cool nice and easy
Install and activated. Went to “My Link Order” in Admin area. At the top of the page I am getting the following errors.
WordPress database error: [Access denied for user 'yscr_bbjkuF'@'localhost' to database 'blog']
ALTER TABLE wp2_categories ADD `cat_order` INT( 4 ) NULL DEFAULT ’0′
WordPress database error: [Access denied for user 'yscr_bbjkuF'@'localhost' to database 'blog']
ALTER TABLE wp2_links ADD `link_order` INT( 4 ) NULL DEFAULT ’0′
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'cat_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT * FROM wp2_categories where link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_order ASC
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance and thanks for all your work on this.
Sorry.. using 2.2.3
Will this version work with WordPress 2.3?
Nope it won’t, that reminds me to put a note up on the page. 2.3 does away with the old category tables so pretty much any plugin that deals with post or link categories is going to break. Not sure when I’ll have a new version ready.
Strange, it’s working for me with my already ordered links (after changing the code again as I wrote in #194), but since the category table doesn’t exist anymore there I receive an error message when I try to open the “My Link Order” menu.
@Andrew,
I am looking forward to the update. Thanks four your work!
Just realized that I have no “My Link Order” widget. How is this installed? All that was in the installer was the “mylinkorder.php” filew plus a ReadMe. When activated, it appears in my Links/Blogroll menu in the DashBoard, but no widget.
Am I missing something?
Peter
Thanks for your tip to upgrade to 2.2 (to align with my WP2.2x)
The widget appeared as predicted!
Thanks
Peter
Thanks for the 2.3 update and for this nice plugin.
Cheers, Jeco
Nice widget. Won’t order though – only separates by alphabetical at present. Check the site link above.
Thanks mate
Scott
http://sweetbike.org
er – sorry. Running 2.3
Just upgraded to the newest version, but i’m just getting “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘=’ in /home/******/public_html/uni/wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php on line 143″
This plugin rules. Thank you so much.
hello, i installed 2.3 and now i am seeing this-
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /mnt/w0805/d04/s22/b02a4a15/www/howlingearth.com/music-videos/wp-content/plugins/mylinkorder.php on line 234
note i have removed the php for now so the site can be seen
the link list is ordered, but the categories itself doesn’t.
have anyone experience this?
sorry… I’m using 2.3.1 right now.
thanks in advances.
To update this plug-in for 2.3.1 all you need to do is open taxonomy.php and change “catgories” on line 1360 to “categories.” It’s misspelled.
My bad. I mean… on like 1360 replace LEFT JOIN with INNER JOIN. Then it should work.
Thanks for the notice on the change to taxonomy.php, the file has been updated in the 2.3 zip.
i’m sorry, but the widgets still display un-ordered categories although the links inside categories itself display ordered.
// Get the object and term ids and stick them in a lookup table
$results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT object_id, term_taxonomy_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships INNER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON object_id = ID WHERE term_taxonomy_id IN (".join(',', array_keys($term_ids)).") AND post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish'");
this is the aforementioned line on taxonomy.php (wp default install, untouched), which one I should modify so the widget display categories correctly on sidebar?
ahh… my bad… didn’t follow the details…
it works now… thank you very much… :)
Hi
Just installed this on WP 2.3. While I can order the links within a category, I cannot order the categories themselves.
I would like my links to show above my blogroll and cannot figure out how to do this.
I see the option, but when I use it, nothing happens to the way link categories are displayed.
I disabled the plugin for the time being.
I run into the same issue as Mike in comment 231. Activating the mylinkorder (or the mycategoryorder) plugin breaks up WordPress from working.
Wordpress 2.3.1 (downloaded Nov 3rd) Theme K2 revision 582
First you show the steps to follow and a few lines later you cancel them (ie. strike them out with a line).
Reasonable people expect you to give reasonable directions – not play games and waste your as well as our time. If you want to gain clients you must act reasonably. Am I preaching to the converted ?
Garbis Armen,
Well if you read the strikeout stuff you would see that it is all instructions for older 2.0 versions, which a few people still use. Managing multiple versions of my plugins for multiple versions of WordPress that each require different installation procedures because of circumstances outside of my control is no easy feat.
I think a reasonable person would be appreciative of the efforts of another person trying to help people solve a technical problem they aren’t able to solve themselves. I also think a reasonable person would offer suggestions they think would make solving that problem more clear.
I’ve supported my plugins for almost 2 years now. I have exchanged thousands of emails with people around the world offering help to anyone who asked for it; all in my free time as a service to the global community of WordPress users.
In the end though, I guess you’re right, I’m just wasting everyone’s time. Through your preaching I have seen the light and I will no longer offer free, unbridled support for anything related to WordPress. I will no longer respond to comments posted on my plugin pages. I will not respond to direct emails asking for help. I need to stop fooling myself and playing games and do some real soul searching to see if I can find the reasonable person inside me. Until I can do that I am of no use to my loved ones and the people who look to me for help.
When I add the widget to my sidebar I get this error:
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 't.term_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (‘link_category’) AND tt.count > 0 ORDER BY t.term_order ASC
Anyone know what could be the issue?
Antonio, you do have to actually go to the My Link Order plugin and set the link order, then that ugly message goes away and it’s all nice again. I had the same problem :) .
hi andrew
thanks so much for the good work. using non-widget template, with two blogroll categories. i haven’t figured out what argument to add so that the blogroll categories will list with format.
i would be much appreciative of anyone’s help.
cheers
Nice plugin. Thanks for sharing your work.
My blogroll is in default alphabetical order and I’m reluctant to reorder it without knowing if there is a ‘reset to default’ if I change my mind.
Rgards.
Anyone knows if something has changed with the latest wordpress update (2.3.1) and this plugin? because since i installed that update the link order doesn’t update anymore (no errors, just not the order I edit in the admin panel)… any help would be appreciated at simon @ brooke-langton.net thanks!
I upgraded to the latest release of WordPress yesterday, and now when I go to change the link order categories, it does not work.
I really LOVE this feature, and would like for it to work again. Did the update do anything to mess this wonderful plugin up?
I just wanted to come back and say that there is NOT a problem with the plug-in and the upgrade I did, I just OVERWROTE the Taxonomy file that was in the “Includes” accidentally, and well – ya know that files needs to be in there. LOL!
So, problem solved, it works – and I am a moron!
- jake
Simon,
I am no expert, but I had the same problem and it was because when wordpress gives a warning about upgrading, they talk about being careful not to overwrite “Themes” and “Plugins” – well, when you followed the directions to install this plugin, we were asked to add
“wp-includes/taxonomy.php” – the taxonomy.php file had to go into the includes folder, per say.
Well, during the upgrade if you overwrote the wp-includes folder, then the plug-in’s version of the taxonomy.php file was also changed.
Re-download the plug-in, and then upload the “taxonomy.php” file from the PLUG-IN files to your includes folder, and that should do the trick.
Why do I know this? Cause I did the same daggone thing, and was heartbroken until my little light bulb went off in my head, and I realized what I had done.
:)
- Jake
I upgraded to WP 2.3.2, and now when I try to drag the boxes in MyLink Order, it just highlights the text inside them.
I upgraded to MyLinkOrder 2.3.2 (replaced mylinkorder.php in plugins, and taxonomy.php in includes), and I still have the same problem.
Any ideas?
Oh, and the sidebar template code is already taken care of – I had MyLinkOrder 2.3 before.
I am able to reorder links in a category but I cannot reorder the categories. Anyone else having this problem?
I spent hours trying to work out how to do this myself, as my php knowledge is slim. And I find your plugin and get it done in a matter of minutes. THNK YOU!
Andrew,
This is a great little utility. I’m somewhat shocked its not a native WordPress function, but so be it.
It works just like it should.
You’ve made my day.
Thank you for all your work.
Man you this plugin just saved my head!! i was just about re desing all my page thx… thx so much
Great plugin, and so easy to use ! I don’t know why it’s not possible to do it in WordPress directly but your plugin will now be added to all of my blogs.
Hi I try to use your plugin with this one, because it is *a must have* for widget user ;)
sharebrain.info/journal/sbwordpressplugins/sidebar-modules-reloaded/1666/
but your plugin and this *modul* are not friends ;)
my database on my testblog say so ;);) and my error logs too,
and if it is possible – so many user fear to override core files,
there are too many updates to think of all the changes in core files,
is there another solution? -
thanks a lot
Monika
No problem! But a question or request.. after solving the issue which allowed me to order my Blogroll the way I wanted, I wanted to add Geeky Weekly to it, that’s no problem but you either do not have, or I cannot locate a suitable graphic for your site. I may have to resort to using some standard “badge” for it.
Is there one somewhere, or you just don’t care about it, or ??
Kaz
http://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/blogroll-aka-places-to-visit-on-the-web/
(Yeah, I gotta cut down on those slugs!)
I’m already using the My-Category-Order widget. can i use this widget as well without cause the taxonomy.php file to conflict with other widget?
Looks like this plugin doesn’t seem to work with the lastest update. I cant arrange link categories with it no more ….
doesn’t work for me- reordered links, saved, checked site- now the order is different than before but wrong. Arrggl.
Thanks to Adrew, fixed for me. Needed to include wp_list_bookmarks in the sidebar which the tempalte I’ve used didn’t contain at all.
Thanks!
hi, thanks for the great plugin, one error though I have found – if I have more categories of links, all of them have the same ID=mylinkorder. To quote my TidyHTML: Warning: anchor “mylinkorder” already defined. I have checked the code, and it seems, that it shold add a unique ID number at the end of mylinkorder. Any way to fix it? (using the latest WP and the latest Madingo theme), all up to date.
bye
Looks like there is a bug in the built in “Links” widget that I inherited since I pretty much copied that widget and modified it. It included the following two parameters to help out with what html gets outputted around widgets:
‘category_before’ => $before_widget, ‘category_after’ => $after_widget,
On about line 186 inside the wp_list_bookmarks call, delete those two parameters and that will get the “linkcat-##” back. If it messes up your theme because it needs those parameters while using widgets then I’m not sure of a way around it.
thank, it worked, theme is ok and the error is gone.
I am really new to wordpress and I am not using widgets, and it says in the intructions that there is a way to alter the order of the links without using widgets, could you please make it more clear cause I dont get it. I’ve down loaded the software but it doesent show the changes when I view the site in the browser.
Please help
I am using mylinkorder 2.3.2 with wordpress 2.3.3 and i cannot change the order of the base-level categories. Re-ordering within the categories themselves works great, but I cannot swap the order of my two blogroll categories.
anyone?
I can’t get the actual links to order, it only seems to order the link categories.
Great plugin. However, I don’t seem to be able to re-order links that are in multiple categories.
For example, if I have two blogroll categories, and they each have 4-5 links. And 2-3 of these are the same… It re-orders them across ALL categories, not just the category I re-ordered.
I’m using 2.3.3 and when I replace the tax…php and add the other file to plugins- after i try to activate it, I get this
”
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /homepages/23/d236268553/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/mylinkorder.php on line 234
”
I have to manually delete the two files via FTP to get my system back.
I’m using 2.3.3. From “Blogroll” | “My Link Order”, there are no categories to select in the “Order Links” drop down. Any ideas ?
Great pluging, been looking for help in this area for a while now. Thanks much!
Andrew -
This is a fabulous plug-in. At last, I can order my links my way.
Thank you. :)
Does anybody have tested to install on WP 2.5? Does it work?
Cheers.
What about version 2.3.3?
What do I do for this version?
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Great Widget!
How do you change the appearance of this widget….Color, boarder etc.
I saw some CSS code in the widget but when I try to change it WordPress gives me the following message: unable to edit this file…..or something like that.
Thanks
Do you mean how it shows up in the sidebar? The widget doesn’t actually include any CSS and it outputs the same code as the built in widget, example of one link category from my site:
<li id="mylinkorder" class="widget widget_links">
<h2 class="widgettitle">My Links<h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://geekyweekly.com/gallery" rel="nofollow">Image Gallery<a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/01812695720167686674" rel="nofollow">Shared Google Reader Items</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/froman118/" rel="nofollow">Last.fm</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
The id is different but I haven’t seen this cause a problem on any theme so far. The CSS in your theme determines how the sidebar links look. Like in mine, http://geekyweekly.com/wp-content/themes/geeky/style.css:
#subcontent ul { padding:0px; margin:0px; }
#subcontent ul li { list-style:none; }
#subcontent ul li ul li { border-bottom:#FFFFFF 1px solid; list-style: none; padding:0px; margin:0px; background-color:#D67227; }
#subcontent ul li ul li a { padding-left:5px; background-color:#D67227; color:#FFFFFF; display:block; font-weight: normal; }
#subcontent ul li ul li a:hover { background-color:#B35C00; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: normal; }
The links get displayed as nested lists so the “ul li ui li” styles define how the links will look. This will vary from theme to theme. I’m a big CSS fan so if you have any questions let me know.
Note that the file name above for the version for WP 2.2 is correct, but the link is broken. It should be
<a href=”http://geekyweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/mylinkorder-2-2.zip”
mylinkorder-2-2.zip.
Thanks for the plugin! And thanks very much for keeping it updated — though I’m slow to update my blogs, it’s often because I can’t get updates for the required plugins.
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I just upgraded to WP vers. 2.5 and Blogroll is not an option any longer. I cannot find My Link Order tab anywhere.
My Link Order does not seem to work in WordPress 2.5, claims to the contrary at the WordPress Plug Directory notwithstanding. The problem is apparently an incompatibility between ‘My Link Order’s’ taxonomy.php (44KB) and the final, finished WordPress 2.5 taxonomy file (65KB).
I have same problem. After upgrade to WordPress 2.5 My LInk Order does not work. No tab is visible in “Manage” menu.
I updated the taxonomy.php file in the version 2.5 WP Plugin Directory download. Should be good now.
Try downloading it again, seems like you might have gotten the old 2.3.2 version. And I just updated the included taxonomy.php to include the official 2.5 version instead of the out of date RC1 version. Let me know if you run into any other problems.
That fixed it, Andrew. You’re correct–I did have the 2.3.2 version… because that’s what the WordPress Plugin Directory was loaded with. But I re-downloaded and re-uploaded, and everything works perfectly now. Thanks for the quick attention.
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Hi,
Thanks for programming this plugin. I used version 2.2 for a long time and loved it. Recently my ISP upgraded WordPress to 2.3.3. Now the Order Links plugin doesn’t work. I installed version 2.3 but continue to get the same error message when I click on My Link Order:
Table ‘fitatfiv_wrdp2.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist.
I’ve read through the postings but could find anything that helps. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Laura
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I just upgraded to ver. 2.5, and noticed that the spacing is doubled on my links… Is this adjustable somehow?
Thanks!
ps… here’s the page where they are now:http://www.fbcwaynesboro.org/about-us
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i loved your plugin but your code messed up my layout. my footer turned to be below the links instead of the below the page. any help?
yangsquare.com
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Thanks for the plugin – exactly what I was looking for. However, for some reason there is a bullet point in front of the “Links” heading on the sidebar with your widget. I have no idea how it got there… or how to remove it. Can you help?
Sorry, forgot to give you the URL so you can see what I mean:
http://thehealthyskeptic.org
Thanks for your reply!
I can’t seem to make this work. When I try to modify sidebar it just blows up the whole site. I don;t know Jack about php, my template looks like this currently
If i insert the line shown in step 7 the whole site fails. I’m sure it is quite simple but I don’t know where to start
Thank you.
This is the best little plugin ever. Such a small problem, took such a long time to find this fix.
Is there a way to insert a line break between the link and the description when you have Show Descriptions turned on?
Sorry, I am a noob.
hi,
i tried to sort the links but it doesn’t appear as it should be. I want to put Intl above Girls Wanna Have Fun but it keeps staying at the bottom.
I’m not sure what is wrong.
Great plugin.
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This plugin is a “must-have” as far as I’m concerned. But I just tried updating from version 2.3.2 to 2.5.1, and my site wouldn’t fully load afterward. It stopped loading at “Categories”, where a taxonomy error message appeared. I’m still using WP 2.3.3 — haven’t upgraded yet, if that makes any difference. Any idea what the culprit is? I’ve had to revert back to the previous version in meantime.
Using 2.3, I get the same problems that 2 others reported after moving the taxonomy.php file AND even after uploading that file. I get this error message after doing what I described and enabled the plugin:
WordPress database error: [Column 'term_order' in order clause is ambiguous]
SELECT DISTINCT t.term_id, name FROM wp_term_taxonomy tt inner join wp_term_relationships tr on tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id inner join wp_terms t on t.term_id = tt.term_id where taxonomy = ‘link_category’ ORDER BY term_order ASC
Any suggestions on this? I REALLY would rather use this than use the hand-coded text widget for my links like I’m having to now. I REALLY miss this as it worked just fine in 2.0 for me!
Thanks a bunch!
After upgrading today, all my links have “\n” between the link and description.
Any ideas?
It just doesn’t work. My url’s are clean.
In the menu one link appears two times and there is no ordering happening whatsoever.
Can it be that the french charcters are bothering the php?
thanks for looking into it.
I just installed the plug-in, ordered my link categories then added “My Link Order” widget to the sidebar. The categories don’t appear in the same order as I specified via the admin page.
Great plug-in, BTW!
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
best regards
hi,
since i have up dated to 2.5.1
my link order doesn’t work any more, i can’t change the order of the categoris :/
have you an idea ?
thank’s
I’m using WP 2.5.1 with the Futurosity Aperio theme, and this plugin doesn’t seem to re-order the link categories, unfortunately. I saw in some other comments that the theme could be the culprit. It calls the wp_list_bookmarks function in links.php here:
<?php wp_list_bookmarks(‘title_before=&title_after=’) ?>
so I’m assuming the function exists as it should. I added wp_list_bookmarks(’orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);?> to sidebar.php manually. Hopefully I can use this plugin somehow. It’s silly that this capability isn’t built into WP already.
Hello
I’ve tried using your theme and it works a treat if I add links to my sidebar but I have my links as a seperate page on my site and is seems ot have no affect on this, is there any way to get the plugin to work for a seperate links page as well as the sidebar?
Many Thanks
Sorry, my previous post should have said I’ve tried using your plugin, not your theme
Great plugin, thanks.
A question, is it possible to make the plugin ready for translations with poedit (also for my category order, and my page order?) For each in its own plugin?
I ask you this because I have a site for Dutch WordPress starters to help them how to use WordPress and the plugins. I also translate the plugins. Naturally with a link to the developers site and sharing the translation with the developer.
HI,
Just installed my link order on my wp blog but now my pages do not validate. The error report is as follows:
Line 163, Column 8: ID “mylinkorder” already defined.
Links</
?
An “id” is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a document it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a hook for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify exactly one element).
Is there any way I can cange the plugin to get it to not name id “mylinkorder” so it validates?
Thanks
Steve
HI,
Just installed my link order on my wp blog but now my pages do not validate. The error report is as follows:
Line 163, Column 8: ID “mylinkorder” already defined.
An “id” is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a document it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a hook for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify exactly one element).
Is there any way I can cange the plugin to get it to not name id “mylinkorder” so it validates?
Thanks
Steve
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Please make MyLinkOrder role aware. Specifically, I would like to restrict the ability to access MyLinkOrder to site administrators. Although I have not tested every role, I know that at least authors can access and use MyLinkOrder.
Hi,
I have installed the plug-ins ( MyPage-Order / MyLink-Oder / MyCategory-Order ) and all works great.
BUT only one thing is annoying me…
is it possibile that only the administrators have the ability to change the Order of Pages/Links/Categories??
I think a “normal” author shouldn’t have this capability.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks,
Steffen
I recently downloaded this program (it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for), but I can’t get it to work properly. I’m trying to organize my blogroll in the order of Sports, Politics, Life. No matter how I order the categories, though, it simply orders them as Politics, Sports, Life. What do I need to do to fix this? I am using wp 2.5.1, and I downloaded the link above for wp 2.5. Help!
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The only thing preventing me from using this great plugin is the lack of unique IDs on the list elements. This was mentioned above by Steve (#319).
My problem is not validation (though that would be nice), but the inability to reliably select these elements using CSS. Maybe an ID could be generated from a sanitized version of the link category name, or failing that, the category ID from the database.
This is great! I would like to use this plug-in. It is the perfect solution for an annoying shortcoming from WordPress. However, like Abra and Steffen posted above I need to restrict access to administration roles only. Is there a way?
I would love to use this plug-in, and contribute, provided you use it on beer!
Frank
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Andrew,
I’m trying the widgets workaround to make this plugin work. I’ve had no success editing the sidebar.php. A few readers have had success editing their widgets.php, but I’m not sure which one to edit. In my hosting account, I have the widgets.php in two locations: in the “wp-admin” folder, and also in the “wp-includes” folder. Should I modify both?
This is what I plan to do:
In the widgets.php I will need to replace the old code with the new code.
Old code:
wp_list_bookmarks(array(‘title_before’=>$before_title, ‘title_after’=>$after_title));
New code:
wp_list_bookmarks(array(‘orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘category_orderby’ => ‘order’, ‘title_before’=>$before_title, ‘title_after’=>$after_title));
Please help.
Thanks.
Great plugin! I just wish it would do the same thing with the post categories! Any plans of making that happen?
My links won’t reorder. I can’t find the wp_list_bookmarks code either, and don’t know where to insert it.
Help please?
Is this the right place to leave queries?
I’m using 2.5.1, and I’m having the same problem I had with 2.3.2 (the only previous version I’ve used).
Some of my link categories reorder fine, but when I go into one of them to reorder newly added links, it includes links from 2 other categories in there too, all mixed up out of order. I have to make any changes to that category, then go back and re-order the links in the other 2 categories again. I have to do this every time I add a link, and it’s really time consuming.
Is this a known bug, or might it be something specific to me?
Also, is there a way to set the plug-in so that all links order alphabetically within each category? That would take the pressure off having to re-order them all the time.
Hi,
I’m having the same issue as 323. Aaron:
“I recently downloaded this program (it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for), but I can’t get it to work properly. I’m trying to organize my blogroll in the order of Sports, Politics, Life. No matter how I order the categories, though, it simply orders them as Politics, Sports, Life. What do I need to do to fix this? I am using wp 2.5.1, and I downloaded the link above for wp 2.5. Help!”
Also, when I drag Links Order in the Widgets menu, it’s name appears as “Links Order: Projects” – Projects is one of my blogroll categories and also the one that becomes listed first in the sidebar even though I ordered my Blogroll categories differently before dragging into Widgets.
Thanks for your help and for providing this Plugin!
Oops, I meant it appears as “My Link Order: Projects” rather than “My Link Order”.
The trick with this My Links Order plugin, is that it opens a new Blogroll field as a copy of your usual Blogroll widget. Only this one looks really poor, since you can’t attach an image with your link (for exemple), as you could do with the Blogroll field.
So, this plugin could be of a good use if only it wasn’t ment to be a copy and rather more some of the Blogroll Widget functions.
Wait and see…
I waited a minute, had an idea, in gosh, I saw!!! :-D
This is an advice for everyone : after having successfully activated the My Links Order plugin, you’ll have to Edit it (with the little tab on the right)which allows you to set it the exact way you’d want, including attaching images ans so on…
Right after that, if you don’t want to have two copies of your Links in your Sidebar, don’t forget to remove the usual Links : Blogroll Widget. This, of course, will only hide it from your Sidebar, so you still can use the preceding good old plugin as it is!
Enjoy, as much as I do!! :)
To echo other comments, this plugin only seems to work part of the time. I have messed with it for a few hours and cant find a pattern, but some times it will reorder the links in a category, other times not. It is saving it correctly, since when i go back to the admin screen it looks right, but on the front end it is not. Any thoughts?
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I was wondering if you had explore the possibility of making th lists collapseable using javascript. I love being able to re-order my links, but I’d also love to be able to have them expand and contract. The Enhanced Links plugin does that, but won’t allow re-ordering. Is there anyway to integrate the two plugins?
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This is a great plug in :)
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Great plugin. But, it seems to have stopped working for me. At least the ability to organize the link categories. No matter what I do, it will not update them. It says they were reorganized successfully, but when I look at the page, it’s still on the same old setting. Any ideas? It worked great the first time…I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling but still doesn’t work.
I am having the same issue as 342. Any help would be appreciated. Joe
I’ve long loved you My Links Order. It seems to have stopped working with WP 2.6. Are you planning on keeping it current? Thanks.
Scratch that previous comment. Dumb installation error on my part. It works fine in 2.6. Going to make donation now.
Hi,
This plugin is very nice, I use it for a while now, but I can’t make it run with WP 2.6..
Same issu as 331: in the admin panel some entries are duplicated into 2 categories and some other (sometimes the same!) are duplicated iside the same cat! But when I check the link panel, there are no duplicated entries (all links are new)…
So, where is the problem? How can it be fixed?
After a small investigation, it seems that when a link category has the same name and the same slug-id as a post category, the bug is in action! To fix my issue, I had to create link categories with other slug-ids though the names could stay the same… I’m affraid that there could be something to fix in the MyLinkOrder Ajax queries because WP doesn’t seem to care about cat names and slug-ids between posts and blogroll, but I cannot say more, I don’t even know if it could be the right way to investigate ;) ..
Btw, I don’t want to blog without this very nice plugin and thanx for developping it!
Regards, (and sorry for my bad english..)
Johan
Hi, is there any way this plugin can be altered so that it calls up a random selection of links for each category? I want to be able to limit the number of displayed links per category to something like 25 or 30 links, and have the plugin randomly select which links to include. How can this be done? Is it possible for you to add this option on a future release? Please let me know.
Thanks,
kopper
Hi,
Good idea — installed the plugin, however it doesn’t seem to work under WordPress 2.6. (If you re-order the categorises and click on them, nothing happens :P)
Is it possible have a fix? :)
Thanks!
hi,
i have the same problem since i’ve up graded my wp to 2.6
i can organize my links, but there’s no effect :’(
I have tested your plugin in WPMU works well which nice to know. Tx in advance
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Yah I’m having troubles with 2.6 as well.
Is there going to be a fix soon?
Found a solution to the non-unique ID’s, it involves commenting out some code in the wp_list_bookmarks function in your code. I posted how to do it on the WordPress support area: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/199134?replies=1#post-836913
Hi Geeky Weekly, thanks very much for your plugin, very useful for me! i have a question for you, if you can help me… With the plugin named “categorical links page”: http://www.alucinari.net/wordpress ” how can i use the order selected with my link order? Can you help me? Thanks
I upgraded to 2.6.1a this morning and now the my link order no longer has a container on the sidebar. How do I fix this?
I’ve just bumped it back to 2.6.1 and it’s fine.
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Love the plugin. One question, though – since I installed the latest version, bullets appear in front of my link category names. Disable MyLinkOrder and they go away. This has happened before and I fixed it but can’t remember how. Help?
Problem with bullets appearing at link cat names – seems to be a conflict between the Tarski theme and MLO 2.6.1a. Switched back to the earlier version and OK.
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Hi–upgraded to 2.6.1 and now getting this error:
Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/mysqltmp/#sql_1f76_0.MYI’ (Errcode: 2)
Any clue why?? Thanks!
This plug-in is GREAT! It is the answer to what I have spent hours trying to figure out on my own! So simple– thanks!!!
One problem is that for some reason the entire list of links is displayed twice (but the first time it is finally in the right order! The second time, the categories are in the wrong order, but the links are in the right order). I’m not sure if my problem is related to the plug-in, my theme (Paalam, which seems not to have compatibility issues), or me :)
You can check the URL that i included. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
Nevermind, I solved the problem by undoing some edits that I had done in sidebar.php.
So my comment is just to say that this is a GREAT plugin!!
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Great plugin! I am also having the issue with bullets appearing in the widget. Is there a way to remove these?
When I am running this plugin, it screws up my “Manage” tab in the admin. Whenever the plugin is running, I can go to manage my pages or posts. I click manage and all I see is the name of my site at the top of the page with “Visit Site”. I am running WP 2.6. I can’t even get to the manage page by clicking on the “29 pages” seen in the Dashboard. Do you know why it would be doing this? Everything is fine when I disable your plugin.
Russian language files (.po and .mo) you can download here.
I use your page order plugin, it’s great. Does your link order plug-in work with WP 2.6.2 ?
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Hi,
I have been unable to show the Link Category names above the links, how is that possible?
step 5 in your installation instructions is not working on the wordpress themes directory. should it not read wp_list_bookmarks(…).
Yeah it should, but the site stripped out the underscore from the readme.txt file for some reason. It is on my list of things to fix for the next release.
Hello, I tried to install your plug-in under WP v.2.6.2, but it doesn’t work! I had to rename the categories link to get my order 01), 02), can you help me?
Hello,
I’m not having any problems but I have a question:
After installing your plugin, my links reverted back to plain text instead of pictures (I had pictures put using the “Advanced – Image Address” option).
Any ideas on what to do to get them to show again? I use WordPress 2.6.1 if this helps you. The site (if you want to see what I mean) is at my name.
I really hope that you will answer this one.
Hello,
My Link Order is not working on my site. The my link order widget is in the sidebar. When I reordered links with my link order in the admin panel I got a message saying that it took, but when I go to my page, the order always reverts to what I wanted to change. What is the likely solution to this problem? Thanks.
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I’m not sure why, but the My Link Order I’ve installed and activated on my site will not order my links.
I have tried both the headers and the links themselves and when I click to order, it shows it in the correct order, but on the frontend… no luck.
I know that there is something I’ve missed, I’m not sure what you mean by:
If you have a problem with it not ordering, make sure you have a plain “&” and not “& amp;” between the parameters which could happen if you copy straight out of the browser.
I don’t know where to look to see if this is a problem.. I went in through my backend and clicked edit in my link order, but I’m not seeing any of this as a problem in there.
Any help is much appreciated… I’m excited about using this extension.
Did this add-on get broke with the last WP update? All was good till I updated to 2.6.3.
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hi,
i am so frustrated and tired of my inability to do the simplest things with wordpress.
i just activated your plugin, it was exactly what i was looking for. but i have no idea how to:
1) make it appear INSTEAD OF my linkroll
2) delete the linkroll so i can put your ordered links on the right hand side middle instead. when i activate your plugin, it overwrites my page links and puts itself on the left hand upper corner no matter what i do.
can you help? i am tired of tearing tufts of hair out of my head. i know it should be simple, but i have been working on this for two hours and i have had it. what i want isn’t that complicated, is it?
I’m trying to make subcategories of blogroll, so I can order subcategories. I’ve created the categories as children of blogroll in the cat. widget, and clicked on “show hierarchy”, but they’re still displaying as separate categories. Can you tell me how to do this? I’m seeing it in many blogs, but not seeing a clear explanation. Right now with the plugin, I can order the categories as separate categories, but I’m not able to order them as sub cats.
Thanks so much,
Wendy
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I am having an issue where i can’t reorder the links. Nothing is changable or dragable how can i fix this i have uninstalled and reninstalled the plug in several times.
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I love this plugin, however i am trying to use it in wordpress mu, and trying to make it default for all blogs, however i need the internal widget name. this would be awesome if someone could figure it out, i’ve looked through the code and tried to find it but i cant seem to get it right…
Any help would be AWESOME!
thanks cameron
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Andrew!
Where is the changelog for both plugins?
What is changed? I’ve updated category & links plugins, checked the functionality, reviewed the settings and seen nothing different. Whassup?!
Change log is in the readme.txt. Nothing major changed, but the changes were the same for both plugins. In 2.7 the links show up in the new menus since the generic “Write” menu got broken up into “Posts”, “Pages”, “Links” etc… Both plugins have Russian translations now too.
2.7:
* Updated for 2.7, now under the the new Links menu
* Moved to jQuery for drag and drop
* Removed finicky AJAX submission
* Translations added and thanks: Russian (Flector), Dutch (Anja)
* Keep those translations coming
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Hello,
I like this plugin. that’s good work !
I have just translated it in french, maybe you will be interested in putting the .mo file in the “My Link Order” package.
Send me an email if you’re interested.
Hi,
I’ve installed the latest version in my WP 2.6.5 site. It’s not throwing any errors but it’s also not ordering my links. Any advice?
Thanks,
Russ
Woops, my mistake on the above. I forgot to put the arguments ‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’ into php wp_list_bookmarks in the sidebar.
Great plugin!
Russ
I installed the plugin in WordPress 2.7, but no luck in re-ordering my navigation menu. Backend reorders but the actual page doesn’t. What am I doing wrong?
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Great plugin! – I wrote a review today of what I think of it on my site, http://www.mikedeanellis.com – check it out!
I just installed the plugin on my WordPress 2.7 blog and overall am very happy with the plugin. For the most part, it is working correctly. But, I am having one very odd problem. For some reason, only two of my six links are properly changing color on hover per my stylesheet. The other four remain the original color and do not change on mouse-over. One of the two correctly working links is internal (the blog’s main page) and the others are all external – linking to the other pages of my site. My blog is a subdomain of my main site, so I need to use external links.
I have deleted and re-added the links, changed their order, etc. I’ve double checked my style sheet and sidebar.php and see nothing out of order. Nothing I do fixes the other four links, which are formatted exactly the same as the one working external link.
I am completely stumped. Any ideas?
Does not Re-Order Blogroll Categories and Links as specified in the Plugin options. Taxonomy.php was adjusted manually and automatically by plugin in order to attempt to get working but no luck.
WP: 2.7 (Production Release)
Theme: http://www.pixkit.de
Re-looked at it and it was my oversite with the Widget, Apologies. Works 100%. I guess I just dont know when to quite at times, late at night…um, I mean in the weee hours of the Morning. Also did not look through all the Comments, just way to much. Kudo’s Andrew, Great Stuff.
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First of all my thanks for this sorely needed plugin! I have it working perfectly on one of my blogs but am struggling to get it to work correctly on a blog hosted by yahoo.
The problem, after following all the instructions in WP 2.7, is that when I click on the My Link Order setting in WP Admin, no link categories are present and no links appear in the drop down box despite me having set a number of link categories and a number of links within each category.
For some reason the page does not pull in the links at all. The blog is hosted at Yahoo, on a subdomain and other than that it should be working.
Like i said, I have it working perfectly on a WP 2.7 blog hosted by hostgator…have you experienced this problem before?
Many Thanks for an awesome plugin, I just wish I could get it to work with this one!
My site is configured a little differently:
(…….wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=0&hierarchical=0′); ……..)
——————–
wp_list_cats is my sort command and after that the php script calls the links_list. How would you write the wp_list_cats line to work with your plug in?
Pay no attention to the extra brackets and periods. I did this so I could show you my code.
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I get this error when I try to activate My Link Order on my site: WordPress Database Error:
[Unknown column 'link_order' in 'order clause']
SELECT * , IF (DATE_ADD(link_updated, INTERVAL 120 MINUTE) >= NOW(), 1,0) as recently_updated FROM wp_links INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON (wp_links.link_id = tr.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as tt ON tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id WHERE 1=1 AND link_visible = ‘Y’ AND ( tt.term_id = 5 ) AND taxonomy = ‘link_category’ ORDER BY link_order ASC
I managed to get it working on another site I administer, but I’m not sure how. I think it had something to do with the order of how I activated the plugins- activating MLO first and then the rest of them, but that didn’t work this time. Any ideas?
Works great. Very well done!
Strange problem using WP 2.6.5, MyLinkOrder 2.7a
While I am trying to manage the link order from the administration page, the tiles listing the different links will not move up and down.
When I mouseover the link. I get the arrow letting me know I can drag and move the link, however, the link fails to move.
I tried this with all plugins deactivated except for your MyLinkOrder 2.7a, and I still get the problem
Any ideas?
JOE
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Hey Andrew, I just installed your plugin and every time I try and order my categories or links when i click the “click to order links” button it just goes to a page that says “cannot load mylinkorder.”
Any suggestions?
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Hi, I m using wordpress 2.65, i tried to use your link order pluging ver 2.7a. Under the my link order page, my links do not show up for me to click and drag.
Any idea whats wrong?
Andrew:
I thank you so much for the kind help.
I have installed your plugin and it works properly, only now my links show up twice in my side bar. For example, I have a category “Useful Links” and another “Personal. On my blog, it shows up:
Useful links
-
Personal
-
Useful links
-
Personal
-
Do you know what my problem could be? It may be somewhere in my code “crystal theme,” but I cannot seem to find it if.
Thx,
~Chris
Hi,
I downloaded the plugin, reordered the links, it all seems to work fine, but the order of the links on the front site aren’t changing. I’m using WP 2.7.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Cheers,
Henry
i recently had to re-install windows and now this plugin is not working on my blog anymore…
i know it is due to either my firewall settings or not having a specific thing downloaded that would allow the plugin to work.
the part that doesnt work is when i manually try to drag and drop, my computer is not recognizing that and the links dont actually move.
can someone please tell me what i need to do to resolve this? i know it is something very simple.
i do have the latest version of java downloaded, not sure if that matters.
^^^just an update on my latest post-
its not my firewall because i disabled and i still had the issue.
here is an image of what i see, instead of the links actually moving-
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3334/3227558869_498cc27657_o.jpg
any help?
Henry–
Make sure you add “My Link Order” to your widget sidebar.
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Hi,
Matt declared January 28th to be ‘Thank a Plugin Developer Day’, so I’m a bit late with this. Nonetheless, thank you for My Link Order and My Page Order, which I use on my blog.
Cheers,
Tony.
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My Link Order is not working. I rearrange the links inside dashboard and it says they are updated successfully, but links are NOT reordered on the site itself. They are always in alpha order and won’t change. Using WordPress 2.7
Sidebar is part of the whole template of Options Light. The text boxes are configured inside as seen below. Is there a code that will refer the script to the link order plugin?
Paperweight
Thanks for creating this plugin – its just what I needed and I found it really quickly…works great!
I have noticed that I’ve lost my link hover since I added the plugin…any ideas?
I’m completely new to all this, so an idiots guide would be perfect if you’ve got time!
Thank you!
I’ve solved it! Thanks again for such a great plugin!
Fantastic plugin, thank you ever so much. You made a major annoyance go away, and with beautiful simplicity.
OMG, this plugin seems to be exactly what I’m looking for… unfortunately it doesn’t work here. :(
It installs fine, but on the “My Links Order” page the “Order Links” dropdown box is empty. Looks like it’s not able to get any link categories from my blog altough three categories exist.
Addition: same plugin, installed on a mirror of the blog at another server location works flawless.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot for all suggestions…
I am having the same problem as above, blank dropdown menu…
Any suggestion is appreciated! Thanks!
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Just a note on this, it is good practice (and in my case necessary) that if you are going to bypass using the wpdb mthods to make sql queries like you do in mylinkorder.php that you indicate which DB resource to use. Many of us have WP integrated with other applications. Example of how I did this with your code:
WAS:
$query = mysql_query(“SHOW COLUMNS FROM $wpdb->terms LIKE ‘term_order’”) or die(mysql_error());
Now:
$query = mysql_query(“SHOW COLUMNS FROM $wpdb->terms LIKE ‘term_order’”, $wpdb->dbh) or die(mysql_error());
Great plugin!
Hi,
I just installed My Link Order, and I think I’ve done everything needed, it’s in the widgets and all, but from the admin menu it isn’t getting my current categories or links, the drop down menu is empty and it’s showing nothing in the website. I’m using WP 2.7.1 and K2.
Do you have any idea on what is the problem?
Thanks
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i installed and activated the plugin but cant get the categories to organize as i want to…. i am not much of a coder however i can do simple stuff in dreamweaver if given clear instructions
thank you
Same problem as others are having. Changing link order doesn’t actually change it on the page. I’m using WP 2.71. I’m guessing this plugin just hasn’t been updated for the newest WP.
Thanks anyway. I’ll be checking back to see if there’s a fix.
i, too, am having a problem with the plugin grabbing the link categories. i’ve installed it on one other blog and got it working without a problem, but after trying to install it on two more, i click on my link order under Links but don’t see anything. why isn’t it grabbing the link categories?
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Fantastic plugin. Works perfectly. THANK YOU!! :)
Brilliant. This is how a plugin should world: simple, effective. Nearly immediate.
My Link Order is working OK but my blogroll images aren’t displaying. The URLs are correct — I can navigate to them from my browser. I don’t see any image code being generated. Is anyone else getting blogroll images to display OK?
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Adding:
`else if ( ‘order’ == $orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_order’;`
as suggested kills the entire site. Also, changing permissions 664 didn’t help. If you tell us to change permission, can you suggest which permissions?
thanks
regarding my last post: I am running 2.7.1
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For steve, Rusting Musclecars, or anyone who is able to order their links but they do not show up in the correct order on the site, try going to widgets and adding the My Link Order widget.
I turned on the standard Links widget side by side with My Link Order’s widget, Links was NOT ordered correctly (i.e. alphabetical as standard) but the My Link Order widget performed as I ordered it. When I installed the plug-in it did not automatically swap them around and I was pretty confused why it wasn’t reordering. Hope this helps someone having troubles.
Fantastic plug-in, love it and My Page Order too!
Cudo’s!!
Very complete, very functional :)
Grtz Gerard
Hi
I’m trying to use your plug in on my new blog but iv got a problem its not working.
I’m using WordPress 2.7.1. and iv installed it all correctly and iv been able to use the drag and drop to get the menu in the correct order but when I view my blog its still in the wrong order.
Please help. I’m not really very good with PHP I’m a designer more than a programmer and this is making my brain melt.
Thanks
Gem
I enabled the My Link Order plugin for WordPress 2.7.1. Although the admin section works, when I try to go on the public site, I get this error:
Call to a member function wp_rewrite_rules() on a non-object in [snip]/wp-includes/classes.php on line 145
Any ideas?
I’m not sure what’s happening, but I found out when the Gengo 2.5.1 plug-in is enabled, WordPress 2.7.1 chokes on the My Link Order plug-in on line 268 in mylinkorder.php when trying to call load_plugin_textdomain().
I don’t need interface translation for now, and I’m not authorized by my client (to who I’m doing this site for) to upgrade Gengo to 2.5.3 yet. I simply commented out that line and everything is back to normal again.
Hi – Using WordPress 2.8 the MLO widget doesn’t work – also, I can’t order the links (the drag and drop is broken.)
Just thought I’d add my 2 cents about the new version!
Thank you, Matt (#401 Matt commented on April 15, 2009 at 4:26 pm)! I would have never thought to look there. Works perfectly, now!
Hi,
the plugin is really very good. The only think I miss is valid xhtml code (xhtml 1.0 strict). Is there a way to alter the plugin, that this gives us valid xhtml code?
Best regards, Tom
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Great plugin!
Since WP 2.7.1 it’s working fine, but with the new 2.8 the widget doesn’t show up. Any fix?
Thank you in advance.
I had the same problem as the comment above. After downloading 2.8, it did not show up and I got an error message on the right hand bar.
Thanks,
Same problem here, not showing up with 2.8. Would love a fix!
Thanks for the fast 2.8 patch!
If people are still not seeing links on their site after the patch, try deleting plugin and reinstalling. Worked for me. It even remembered the link order.
Thank you for a superb plugin! It is definitely in my top favorites!
I am also having the same issue as many – really long error message in the sidebar after upgrading to WP2.8.
WordPress database error: [Column 'term_order' in order clause is ambiguous]
SELECT DISTINCT t.term_id, name FROM wp_term_taxonomy tt inner join wp_term_relationships tr on tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id inner join wp_terms t on t.term_id = tt.term_id where taxonomy = ‘link_category’ ORDER BY term_order ASC
I have done the following to try and fix it. It did on one site, but not one my others.
I have deactivated then deleted the plugin and then:
“quote plugin author”: When you upgraded core files I had to modify were overwritten. You’ll need to copy link-categories.php to /wp-admin/ and links.php to /wp-includes/ again. This is one of the downsides to my plugin but sadly it is necessary to get this kind of functionality from WP.
Except that in 2.8, link-categories.php does not exist. It is link-category.php as well as links.php does not exist in wp-includes, but link.php does in wp-admin
I’m still dumbfounded. I thought perhaps it was because on two sites I forgot to deactivate all plugins before upgrading, but one of the two sites works fine after having done the above.
Any more suggestions?
Thanks bunches! Again, it is an awesome plugin!!!
Hello,
Thanks for making a great plugin in My Link Order. I have a feature request for MLO: add CSS classes for each link category so that one could modify the font-size, font-color, etc. of one category of links independent of other categories. Currently all categories have the same ul class=’xoxo blogroll’ tags.
Regards,
Devin
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hi, great widget.
Is there a way to limit the number of displayed Links
i have many, and i want only some to appear with the widget
hi, i also upgraded to wp and my link order 2.8 — and my links weren’t displayed anymore. it seems that it chokes if the ‘category_orderby’ option is set to the value ‘order’. hope this helps when investigating a fix — i suspect you need something in function mylinkorder_check_taxonomy_file() to take care of category_orderby as you already did for orderby.
I downloaded latest plug again, and deactivated old one, deleted and reinstalled and activated new plug. Links don’t show up in settings….
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I get this error in both my link order and my category order plugins:
Error while writing to the file D:\wordpress/wp-includes/taxonomy.php.
Any ideas what can be causing this? I am using the most updated plugins and WordPress 2.8 on a Windows 2003 server using IIS6. My page order plugin does work.
I’ve installed your plugin on my site and went into the admin to reorder them but they won’t move. I try to drag them into the order that I want and they just won’t move. I’ve tried to re-install the plugin but it just doesn’t let me reorder them. Any ideas?
Any chance of getting multiple instances of the widget for 2.8? Will gladly make a donation if such a thing is possible!
Not working for 2.81 now. Can this be fixed?
widget not showing links after upgrading to 2.81
seems to be a common problem…can you fix it please???
Thanks for a great plugin and all the work that goes into creating and maintaining it! Much appreciated.
Great job with this plugin.
Just what I was looking for.
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Hi- the plug-in installed just fine, and I can see the widget, but I don’t have any visible interface for re-ordering my links. Where am I supposed to look for that? Thanks for the plug-in.
I have been using the using the plug-in for sometime and it stopped working recently (maybe the most recent update to WP)? The widget doesn’t display at all.
Tried, it, but it wouldn’t work. came here, see I am not alone. Only have 10 links so i numebred them as a temp fix :(
My widget also stopped working. It could be that it was due to the upgrade to 2.8.3, but I wasn’t really paying close attention.
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I upgraded to 2.8.4 the plug in is no longer working. This is a nice plug in but some how very sensitive to upgrades. I will more careful next time when I upgrade. Never the less I want to thank you the author for such a great plugin. Please fix the issue with 2.8.4 or give us hints hot to make it working again
Issue is resolved now. This plugin is now working nicely on my website Connected Home. All I had do was to go the mylink order page and it applied for the patch. Hope this helps.
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Hi there,
I see some of you still have problems after the WP update but I see no answers from someone (the author?). I also use my-links-order (in my opinion this plugin should be included/embedded in the wp core!) but suffered from the same problem that the links disappeared after updating WP.
The problem is that the taxonomy.php file needs a little change but after updating WP apache (running as ‘nobody’) usually doesn’t have write permissions on the taxonomy.php file anymore. The module tries to fix the updated taxonomy.php file but lacks permissions. You can see this if you click on the ‘Links’ menu in the WP Dashboard and click on My Link Order. You see a warning on top of the screen.
So use a FTP program to set the permissions on ./wp-includes/taxonomy.php to 777 (rwxrwxrwx) (or change the group-id if you don’t want rwx permissions for ‘others’).
I use a little bash script (called: fix.sh) to fix stuff after updating. So right after updating WP just run fix.sh with something like below.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Peter.
#!/bin/bash
# Fix permissions for my-link-order plugin:
chmod 777 /YOUR-PATH-TO/public_html/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
# etc…
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I followed your instruction, Peter (thanx btw) and just clicking on the ‘My Link Order’ menu item in the Links menu was enough.
The link order page had across the top a message telling me the taxonomy.php file had been patched.
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Hi! How can I display the name of the link (not the description) and the image at the same time? Like WP does normally.
I installed and I re-ordered the links and the links stay in the same old order, alpha. Does this plug-in not work with newer WP?
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Hi there! Wonderful plugin..just a small query on how to hide the category name? i.e. hide blogroll..
Please help.
Vimal.
Can’t get it to work in 2.8.5. Tried the patch to no avail.. any tips?
So, I’m just finding this plug in from you. I can’t believe that WP doesn’t allow you to do these simple tasks to begin with. I really appreciate you creating these! So essential!
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Hi,
I’m liking your plugin for my site sunhammerpounding.com
However, it double-spaces my links. Is there some way of changing this to single spacing?
Cheers,
Jay
If I could put something onto the wishlist: allow the use of multiple Widgets, as per WP’s Links. This allows you to have various lists of links on the one page, based on Link Category.
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Great concept. Does NOTHING in either of 2 themes, WP 2.8.6.
I have updated wordpress to 2.8.6 and now “My link order” doesn’t work…can anyone help me?
Thank you..
After you define your link order, go to widget & replace “My Link Order” instead of your default Links widget. It will work.
:)
I found it after so many efforts.
Enjoy…!
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