Download here: My Category Order – WordPress.org Plugin Directory

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Plugin Info

My Category Order was released in 2006 and has been compatible with every version of WordPress from 1.5 to 2.8.5. It went through a lot of changes, but the effort needed to keep it backwards compatible was quite burdensome. Breaking support for versions of WP older than 2.8 allowed for the inclusion of a more powerful widget and the removal of the horrible taxonomy.php patch (believe me I hated it more than anyone).

The most exciting change comes from the move to the new Widget API. It makes adding support for multiple widget instances a snap. Rewriting the widget code also allowed me to add widget options for nearly every single parameter normally available to the wp_list_categories template function. If you were being held back by the lack of options on the built in Categories widget then definitely check that out.

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7/2/11: WP 3.1.4 broke the plugin. The newest version of the plugin (3.1.4) fixes this, but might require changes on your end. If you use widgets then you are good to go. If you use wp_list_bookmarks in your template, then just change that to mylinkorder_list_bookmarks(). It does the exact same thing, but allows the custom ordering.

Download here: My Link Order – WordPress.org Plugin Directory

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Installation Help (thanks to Ken down in the comments)

Step One: Go to “Widgets” under the “Appearance” tab. Drag the “Links” widget off the sidebar in order to deactivate it. Then, drag the “My Link Order” widget where you want your links to appear.

Step Two: Click on “My Link Order” to get to the settings. Be sure to set “Category Order By:” and “Link Order By:” to “My Order.” This is what allows you to set your links in whatever order you want the widget to display them in.

Step Three: Click on “My Link Order” under the “Links” tab. In the lower section are your link categories, in boxes. Drag and drop these to order your categories, and then click on the button “Click to Order Categories.” Now your categories will be in the order you want them.

Step Four: in the upper section, under “Order Link” click on the drop-down menu in order to select which category you want to order first. Then click on “Order Links in this Category.” Your links will then appear in little boxes and the widget will say “Order the links by dragging and dropping them into the desired order.” Do so. Then click the button below that says “Click to Order Links.” The links in that category will now be in the order you select. Click on the “Go Back” link to order the links in your other categories the same way.  (You need to do this for each category, unless you have a category you don’t care about the order of.)

Plugin Info

My Link Order was released in 2006 and has been compatible with every version of WordPress from 1.5 to 2.8.5. It went through a lot of changes, but the effort needed to keep it backwards compatible was quite burdensome. Breaking support for versions of WP older than 2.8 allowed for the inclusion of a more powerful widget and the removal of the horrible taxonomy.php patch (believe me I hated it more than anyone).

The most exciting change comes with the move to the new Widget API. It makes adding support for multiple widget instances a snap. Rewriting the widget code also allowed me to add widget options for nearly every single parameter normally available to the wp_list_bookmarks template function. If you were being held back by the lack of options on the built in Links widget then definitely check that out.

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Download here: My Page Order – WordPress.org Plugin Directory

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My Page Order was released in 2006 and has been compatible with every version of WordPress from 1.5 to 2.8.5. It went through a lot of changes, but the effort needed to keep it backwards compatible was quite burdensome. As of version 2.8.6 of the plugin, it will only support WP 2.8 or above.

With the break in compatibility I’m able to take advantage of the new Widget API. It makes adding support for multiple widget instances a snap. Rewriting the widget code also allowed me to add widget options for nearly every single parameter normally available to the wp_list_pages template function. If you were being held back by the lack of options on the built in Pages widget then definitely check that out.

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Contributors List

• Huge thanks to Mike Gegelman
• Wow! Thank you Jennifer at http://jennifer8lee.com
• Thank you Michael from http://www.zhounder.com/ and http://www.magickmichael.com/
• Big thank you to Ron from Aerial Filmworks
• Big thanks to Adam at http://adamwwarner.com/
• Thank you Sock Dreams!
• Thank you Jenny at http://www.jennyrink.com
• Thanks Laura over at http://www.lahdee.com
• Thanks George and Archie
• Thanks Leon, Lloyd De Jongh, and Stanislav
• Big thank you to Connie
• Thank you Jill, using plugins on http://www.bel-inizio.org/wp
• Thank you A.S. Noe Consulting
• Thank you Denis at http://www.theprophecyofchrist.com/
• Thanks to Florian at http://www.papadiv.com/
• Thanks Tom at http://oransje.com, very generous of you!
• Thank you to Meadowbrook Church in Australia
• Thanks John at http://TheGardenCoop.com
• Thank you Dawn at http://dawnclifford.biz
• Thank you John at http:/patinaproducts.com
• Thank you Maggie at http://www.maggiecurran.com
• Thanks John at http://www.redheadline.com
• Thanks Jennifer at http://www.bedandbreakfastgeorgetown.com
• Thanks Aria at http://wildmuse.net
• Thank you Scott at http://www.trwebco.com
• Very big thank you to Jason at http://websitebuildersresource.com/
• Thanks Mark at http://markabbott.com/
• Thank you Carel at http://sphericalpanoramas.com/blog/
• Thanks Carla at http://carlaroyal.com/
• Thank you Christine at http://liarsandcheats.info
• Thanks http://anything-digital.com
• Thank you Roy at http://roydalgleish.com/food/
• Thanks MakiMom at http://www.sushiloversunite.com
• Thank you Andrea at http:\\www.uglyplace.org and http://www.twopenguins.it
• Thanks to http://www.whatisrugby.com/
• Thank you Ben at http://www.roundhayevangelicalchurch.com/media/
• Thank you Harvey at http://standrewsjhs.com
• Thank you 3c32.com
• Thanks Lauren at http://laurenpburka.circlet.com
• Thanks Rylee, used it on a client’s site, http://www.wmpa.info
• Thanks to Paul at http://www.myceredigion.co.uk
• Thank you Boone at http://teleogistic.net
• Thank you Ari at http://www.helloari.com/
• Thank you Mark at http://metroaudioltd.com
• Thank you High Aspirations, http://www.highaspirationsinc.com/
• Thank you Deb at Leap Ventures LLC, http://www.leapmovie.com/
• Thanks Andrew, http://andrewnorcross.com/
• Thanks Anton, http://www.antonkusters.com/
• Thanks Don, http://donbradshaw.com/
• Thanks Mike, http://regnierphotography.com/commercial/
• Thanks to Chris @ http://www.iixii.net/
• Thanks Story Master Press@ http://storymasterpress.com/
• Thanks to RASoftware @ http://rasoftware.com/
• Thanks to Sandra @ Oasis Day Spa
• Thanks to Jesse @ http://jesseloesberg.com/
• Thanks to Tim @ http://timwalshsalon.com/
• Thanks to Sid @ http://sidwebb.com/
• Thanks to Jill using it on @ http://www.veracity.net
• Big thanks to David @ http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/
• Thanks to Michael @ http://www.sunsurfer.co.uk
• Thanks to High Aspirations @ http://www.tktcpa.com/ and http://shoholatwp.org/
• Thank you Evan at http://evanrapoport.com
• Thank you Roy at http://sdchristianfoundation.org/
• Thank you Rebecca at http://rebeccalouise.com
• Thank you Theodore at http://federalproductions.com
• Thank you interage.com
• Thank you Joey at http://www.joeyguidospeaks.com/
• Thank you Julia at www.primeadminsolutions.ca
• Thanks to Tom at www.gadgetsdirect.com.au
• Thanks you Lawrence at www.cnywebdesigns.net
• Thank you Henry at http://henryreinders.com
• Thanks to Frederick, Inspirational Thought, 37 in All – http://www.frederickzappone.com/
• Thanks to the Yeben Store, http://www.yeben.org/
• Thanks Francis Robinson at http://funkyjudge.net/geils/
• Thanks to iNET SEO, http://www.inetseo.co.uk/
• Thanks to Magnus at http://www.anemo.se/en
• Thank you Steve at http://www.maxcreative.com
• Thank you Malcom at http://www.rubydesign.co.uk
• Thanks to Shelly at ToolboxMedia.com
• Thanks to communicationhq.com and righthandplanning.com
• Thanks to Thomas at df7hi HomeControl
• Thanks to Chris at http://jkochis.com
• Thanks to Chris at www.stillpointpractice.com
• Thanks to Natalya at www.websiteremedies.com

#36 with 85,974 downloads, not too shabby. Kind of cool to see where I’m at.

The update also added nice stuff that was previously accomplished with plugins. The Dashboard is a lot more customizable now. Plugins can now be installed from within WordPress by either searching the Extend repository or uploading a zip. You can also delete plugins too so that eliminates most of the need for FTP access.

I updated my plugins to be compatible with 2.7 so grab those updates.

I’m also getting ready to start building up my photo gallery at Picasa and sticking to an organization system that works. Picasa 3 is a very nice piece of software to help accomplish that.

A while back I was trying to figure out a way to share those “shared” items with a wider audience. I stuck a link in the sidebar to my shared item page, but I doubt anybody uses it. What I really wanted to do was have WordPress automatically create posts with a link to the content I mark in Google Reader. The WP-o-matic plugin does exactly what I want.

Setting up the plugin involves creating a CRON job on the server and setting up a feed to check periodically. You can customize the content of the post that gets created; I opted for a little blurb and a link to the content. I wanted to modify the title that gets created which isn’t an available option so I modified the plugin to do that for me. I also set it to save posts as drafts so I can assign a category and tags and maybe some of my thoughts before Google Reader gets a hold of it and caches it forever.

So these shared posts are really the cream of the crop of my subscriptions and I’d love to have people share things they find. I like the fact that whenever shared items show up in Google Reader from my friends they are of high quality and worth the read even though it might be outside my immediate area of interest.