Category Options missing in 2.1?

  • I am an end user not very knowledgeable about customization and tags. I upgraded my blog to WP 2.1 and the admin handling of the categories changed a lot and for the worse.

    Gone are many of the options I used to have, like to allow or disallow images, or in the case of a blogroll link category, to set what appears before, between and after each link (previously set to < li >, etc.) It also seems to not differentiate between a blogroll link category or a post category.

    I have a custom template but it was set up for me and I have no idea if that is the issue nor how to go about changing it. I’ve searched the forums but found nothing that sounds like my problem to compare to.

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  • Thread Starter Tom Richmond

    (@art4mad)

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Hey art4mad,

    I had the exact same issue pop up on me today when I finally added some pages to the site that I wanted to appear in a specific place. After adding the first one, I realized that I was getting the link to that page showing up on my sidebar! So, I went into the sidebar.php code to look at how the blogroll was being listed out there. Seemed that it was correct in that it should have only showed the “menu” category of links on the page.

    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=0&title_li=&category_name=menu&category_before=&category_after=&show_images=1&orderby=rating&show_rating=0&show_updated=0'); ?>

    However, it was showing the new link that was definitely not in the “menu” category. So after researching in the codex (where most answers are if one knows the correct questions to as it, as I have come to learn ?? ), I found that I could change the “category_name” argument to just “category” and specify the “menu” ID number (in my case 75) to get this:

    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=0&title_li=&category=75&category_before=&category_after=&show_images=1&orderby=rating&show_rating=0&show_updated=0'); ?>

    Seems to be working just fine for me at Boldly Going as you can see in the left sidebar, above the search function.

    Hoping this helps!

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