CategoryListOverride not working

  • To display link categories in the order I needed them, I was using [link-library categorylistoverride=”cat#”] and simply listing each category number separately in the order needed. It had been working great. However, since the recent update, all links were missing and the page said “All of your links must be assigned to at lest one category to be displayed.” I then tried [link-library settings=”1″ categorylistoverride=”cat#”] and that didn’t work either. If I remove the categorylistoverride function altogether, it works but, of course, now the categories are not in the order we need them to be. The links are assigned to categories and had been working without issue before the update.
    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    First off, category IDs have changed between the old version of Link Library and version 6.0. Therefore, if you are using the categorylistoverride, you will need to go through and update the category IDs to match their new IDs.

    You should also check in the Categories tab of your library settings and see if the Results Order field is configured to ‘Order of categories based on included category list’. If set to other values, it will not use the order from the override list.

    Please let me know if this helps.

    Thread Starter srower

    (@srower)

    I had no idea that the category ID’s changed. I updated the ID #’s but found that to get it to the order I needed, I had to also add in the link-library setting so it now looks like this: [link-library settings=”1″ categorylistoverride=”321,324″][link-library settings=”1″ categorylistoverride=”316″], etc.

    I did check the Results Order field, but the option you noted is not available. I only have Order by Name and Order by ID. I am on v6.0.23 – am I missing something?

    It is working now though, thank you.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    To get the option I mentioned, you need to go to general settings, and set the option called Category selection method to Comma-separated ID list. When you go back to the common tab of library settings, you will be able to specify a list of category IDs like you were doing in the shortcode.

    The extra Results Order option will then appear as well.

    Thread Starter srower

    (@srower)

    Thank you so much Yannick – I will give that a try.

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