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WordPress Plugin to Order Your Blogroll Links & Categories

May 20, 2009 By

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NOTE: “My Link Order” requires a patch to work correctly in WordPress 2.8. Read this post…

After experiencing a fair amount of frustration trying to order the blogroll links on our Social Media Resources website which is built on WordPress, I googled around and found My Link Order. This plugin really does the trick, and plays nice with WordPress v. 2.7.1. But it requires a patch to work in WordPress v. 2.8.

If your theme uses widgets, they suggest that you replace the standard “Links” widget with the “My Link Order” widget. I found it doesn’t work if your theme uses widgets and you don’t use the “My Link Order” widget.

However, the theme our Social Media blog uses is “Modern,” designed by Ulf Pettersson, which doesn’t use widgets, and the My Link Order developer’s instructions form using their plugin with a non-widget theme aren’t accurate.

You need to do two things:

1) Make “/wp-includes/taxonomy.php” writeable (permissions: 666)

2) In “sidebar.php” replace the PHP code for pulling in the links with this code:
<?php wp_list_bookmarks(‘orderby=order&category_orderby=order’); ?>

Once you have installed the plugin and made the above modifications, ordering your blogroll links and categories is a piece of cake — just drag and drop them into the order in which you wish them to appear.

I find it odd that this feature isn’t built into WordPress. Without the My Link Order plugin, ordering the links is very limited.

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  • Mark Cummuta

    I upgraded my client’s new in-process restaurant website to WP 2.8, and My Link Order no longer works. I checked out the developer’s site, and there has been no answer to a number of individuals’ requests to upgrade his widget to 2.8+, so not sure if its coming back any time soon. I found your post above, and was wondering if you think your instructions above might work (or your suggestions for modification) in 2.8? Thanks for your thoughts!

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  • vimal

    Is there a way I can hide the category from being displayed?

    • http://www.hyperarts.com admin

      This post is about ordering the Blogroll using My Link Order. I don’t understand your question, Vimal.

  • mr ed

    thank you! thank you! thank you!
    i have looked forever for how to make ‘my link order’ work on my non-widget theme. i didn’t even need to 1) make “/wp-includes/taxonomy.php” writeable, just changed the code as per your fix in 2).