In my post about the plugin “My Link Order” for ordering your blogroll links, I talked about what a great plugin it is. Then WordPress 2.8 came out and it caused My Link Order not to work. The patch/fix for this is not very intuitive, so I’m laying it out below:
- Log in to your WordPress as admin;
- Click on the “Links” link in the left navigation;
- Click on “My Link Order” in the list that is displayed;
- On the “My Link Order” page are the instructions for patching /wp-includes/taxonomy.php so that My Link Order works in WordPress 2.8.
- At line 683, after this code:
elseif ( empty($_orderby) || ‘id’ == $_orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_id’;you paste the following code:
else if ( ‘order’ == $_orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_order’;
and then your blogroll shows up again!
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#1 by ShanK - August 6th, 2009 at 11:23
I upgraded from 7.1 to 8.3 version, not this plug has messed up my links. Does this patch applies to 8.2 version as well.
#2 by admin - August 7th, 2009 at 08:53
I’m not sure what these versions are you’re talking about. WordPress 2.8 was the version I was discussing and how to patch it so that My Link Order plugin works again.
#3 by chai - August 6th, 2009 at 20:20
really helpfull tutorial
this will fixed my wordpress 2.8 also thanks for the post broo keep up a good work 
#4 by Lou - October 6th, 2009 at 12:37
Where can I just get the taxonomy.php file for wordpress 2.8.
I accidentally uploaded my old one…
#5 by Lou - October 6th, 2009 at 12:43
this patch isn’t working…
my links still aren’t showing up…
#6 by Lou - October 6th, 2009 at 13:24
I figured it out…It’s actually the other way around…
The following code:
else if ( ‘order’ == $orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_order’;
Should be placed above this code..;
elseif ( empty($_orderby) || ‘id’ == $_orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_id’;
Starting at 683, it should look like this;
else if ( ‘order’ == $_orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_order’;
elseif ( empty($_orderby) || ‘id’ == $_orderby )
$orderby = ‘t.term_id’;
#7 by admin - October 6th, 2009 at 15:26
Actually, it should work no matter which order the two conditional statements are in, at line 683 in taxonomy.php. I tested both orderings and My Link Order worked fine. The *important* thing is to make sure you use the My Link Order widget if your theme uses widgets (as you knew, and I found out!).