Now that the semester is over I’m going to devote some more of my time to my blog and also developing software. One of the first things I was going to do on my blog is add more links over on the right and realized it is a major pain in the butt to order not only the links but also the link categories themselves. WordPress has no facility for manually ordering the link categories so I changed that. My quick fix was adding a column to the database and then editing the select query to order by “my_order” instead of whatever it was doing.
My plan is to develop a plugin to add this functionality because it is sorely missing and the weakest point of WordPress that I have found. I’ll update as I work on that and hopefully I can get it released to the WP community for others to use.
My categories are ordered by ID. You can’t specifically set the ID of a category, it’s just based on the order you created them, it still works for me. Arcade Building is my last ID (last one I created) so it shows up last. Here’s what my code in the sidebar template looks like:
I believe I changed whatever was in the parenthesis (name?) to ID. But you are an uber geek, so feel free to make a sweet plugin.
and of course the code doesn’t show up.
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ay yai yai.
?php get_links_list(id); ?
This would be brilliant. I find the lack of control WP offers over links to be v frustrating, personally.
Nice work on the plugin! It is seriously handy and makes it so much easier than changing the code each time.
Thanks.
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