adding just one link category to sidebar

  • Resolved ejm

    (@llizard)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    I have just upgraded from the legacy 2.0.11 to the latest version of WP. After a minor skirmish with some plugins, I have now got the stupid thing to show the posts.

    However, the sidebar is still messed up. Previously, I was showing just one category of links on one part of the sidebar. The category WAS #14 in the old version. I was using the following coding.

    <?php wp_get_links(14); ?>

    Sadly, the new version of wordpress has decided that I want to show ALL my links there. I did a little investigating of category ids (thanks to this forum, I discovered that one can hover over the link category to see the URL and discover the id number) and now it seems that the category that USED to be #14 has been changed to #52. (Rrrrrrr) Unfortunately, changing the coding to the following still displays ALL the links from all categories:

    <?php wp_get_links(52); ?>

    Could someone point me in the direction of how this coding is supposed to look now? (Please feel free to spoonfeed by simply showing the coding)

    Thank you.

    -EMorris, etherwork.net/blog (please refrain from turning this address into a link – I’m trying to keep the spammers at bay)

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  • Thread Starter ejm

    (@llizard)

    Excuse me for replying to myself.

    Further scouring these forums and google, I found the answer here
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/115423?replies=6

    in 2.1 the post categories and link categories are merged in one single categories table, so they get renumbered…

    Wow. I would never have guessed this!

    It turns out that this is the coding I should be using now in order to show only the links in the category now numbered 52. I thought I’d post the answer here too just in case there are others who have waited as long as I to upgrade from the legacy version.

    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=52'); ?>

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