Blogroll Order

  • Hi.

    I’m using a customized theme based on a theme called “Waterlily.” I’m not sure if this is them related, or wordpress related.

    Is there any way of choosing, myself, what order the blog roll shows up as? It seems as though it will only do alphabetical. I’ve tried assigning a rank and ordering that way, but it doesn’t seem to work. The only solution I’ve found so far is putting asterisks on the ones I want on top. I’d much rather have control over which order they appear. Is this possible?

    My blog is here:
    https://spiritcaat.com/spiritcaatblog/

    Thanks,
    Caat

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

  • Might want to look at some of the orderby settings available with the template tag, wp_list_bookmarks().

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Somewhere in your theme, or possibly in a sidebar widget, or whatever, you’re hopefully making a call to wp_list_bookmarks to show the blogroll items. You need to find out where that is and then edit it to include an “orderby” parameter. Then you can tell it to order by one of several things.

    See here:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks#Parameters

    Try this plugin… it worked well for me. ??

    https://geekyweekly.com/mylinkorder

    Thread Starter bigcaat

    (@bigcaat)

    Okay. Thank you for the tips. I put the plugin in, and it shows up and everything, but doesn’t seem to be working. When I change the code, to what they say to change it to, the sidebar disappears with an error message.

    Also, I found the wp_list_bookmarks tag but I’m not quite sure what to do with it with the ‘orderby’ tag if I were to go that direction.

    I’ll have my husband look at it and see if it makes more sense to him.

    Thanks,
    Caat

    Once you put the files in the right folders, go to your admin page. Under the plugins tab you should see a line that is called My Link Order. At the end of the row, there is a link that says activate. Click that.

    Next, go to the Presentations tab and click on Widgets. Drag the My Link Order box under your sidebar and delete out the one that says Links.

    Then go to Blogroll, add your links, and they should come up in the order that you put them in.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter bigcaat

    (@bigcaat)

    Okay. Thanks. I see where to do that. My next question is this:

    In every theme I test I go to the widgets area and only see “default sidebar.” I see how to add all the individual things, but if I want to go back to that default once I’ve saved it to see what it looks like, how do I do that?

    Also, adding the widget here — does this just change it for only the current theme, or does it change it globally for every theme I currently have at my disposal?

    Thanks,
    Caat

    EDIT: Oh! Never mind! Got it! Thank you! ??

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)
  • The topic ‘Blogroll Order’ is closed to new replies.