links on the sidebar by categories

Try this:

<ul>
<?php
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
<li id="linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>"><h2><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>

I tried this, it ave the same result as <?php get_links_list(); ?>

Let’s try this:

First, we are going to assume that Blogroll is link category 1, and Histoire is link category 2. You can discover the actual IDs of each link category by going to Links/Link Categories.

Now, replace what you have entered into the sidebar with the following, remembering to substitute the actual link category IDs:

<h3><?php _e('Blogroll'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links(1);???>
</ul>

<h3><?php _e('Histoire'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links(2);???>
</ul>

Thank should do it, good luck.

It works fine!
Thanks a lot guys! Fast and efficient!

That was quite helpful. Thanks.

Hello,

from my understanding ‘<?php wp_get_links(id); ?>’ is the trick to get all the links from a specific category, but it does not report the category name associated with.
While ‘<?php get_links_list(); ?>’ does it, but will list all the categories.

I was wondering if there was a way to get the category name automaticaly from WP when you select a category ID?

If I’m correct the code provided by Macmanx means that you have to type manualy the category name each time (wich is indeed a working solution).

I’m wondering what modifications are to be done on the code given in the codex and reproduced above by Marc to do the same?

Not knowing PHP, I have tried to modify it for a single category but without success. I don’t know what parameter to use.

Thanks.

Hi all– I tried doing what macmanx suggested above, and it didn’t work (I got a “parse error” message on the sidebar instead.

Here is the code relating to my links in my sidebar.php page as it stands now:

<?php if( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<li id=”links”><?php _e(‘Links’); ?>

<?php get_links(-1, ‘
• ‘, ‘

‘, ‘
‘, FALSE, ‘category’, FALSE, FALSE, -1, TRUE); ?>

I have 3 categories of links, and the code above is just tossing them all into one entitled “Links”. Any suggestions?