Merging of (blogroll) Links and Categories in 2.1

I understand the merging.

Now, how do I sort my link categories in 2.1? (they are messed up after upgrading)

ealm,

I think a lot of us have the same question! I wish we had just stayed with the old way of doing this, but that is just my personal opinion.

L

I fixed my site with the info found in this article. The article tells you how to exclude categories and other things. After I fixed the category prob, the My Category Order plugin I had works just fine!

Here is the info link I used to change the code in my sidebar: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories (scroll to see “Categories with Excludes”)

Lace

You can see the changes at https://memorylaneproducts.com

Thanx Lace!

I’m afraid though, that I’m not a technical enough person to understand this. The best I can do with the “Categories with Excludes” instructions, is to list to post categories in different ways. I don’t know how to get it to handle to link categories.

aaaaaaw ealm. I found myself in a similar position a few months ago and decided I’d just have to jump in. It was sort of like learning to swim as a kid. Once I got used to the water, you can’t keep me out of it. ??

In my case (many others’ too) it’s just a matter of finding the section you need to change in the sidebar php and then copy and paste the new “phrase” or code. This part really isn’t as hard as I thought when I first began, several months ago.

Oh, I forgot to say that I got my “blogroll” links to show up by replacing my old link code (where the blogroll stuff is after 2.1) with <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

So far, making these changes has made my site behave as before. I have no idea if it’s a good programming move but hey…it works for me. ??

Good luck.

L

Does anyone know what the purpose of merging blog/link categories is?

Hi,

I just upgraded to 2.1 and have problems with this merge. Now Blogroll and other categories show link with description added after them. How can I make it so that it looks like in old version, so only the link and the description in title tooltip for the link.

If I remember correctly the old version of WP also had an option if description is shown or not. But I can’t find this option for categories anymore.

Thanks in advance for help!

Now I understand why this is happening with the Blogrole, and I understand that I must change the wp_list_bookmarks() functions within the theme files, but how does this fix adding new links?

As it stands, I cannot add a new link without getting an error:

SELECT category_id FROM wp_link2cat WHERE link_id = 3 ORDER BY category_id

and I cannot assign a category to the link.

When I delete the link I just created, I get this error:

WordPress database error: [Got error 1 from storage engine]
SELECT category_id FROM wp_link2cat WHERE link_id = 4 ORDER BY category_id

WordPress database error: [Got error 1 from storage engine]
DELETE FROM wp_link2cat WHERE link_id = ‘4’

The article provided does not give any information about this. Anyone have any ideas?

I can add a new post to the blog, and I notice that within the categories are the added categories of my links, with the title above the added categories as “links.” This makes sense due to the merge. I can even add the new categories to my post.

What is also interesting is that when I try to delete a category under Manage > Categories, I get this error:

WordPress database error: [Got error 1 from storage engine]
SELECT link_id FROM wp_link2cat WHERE category_id=’22’

So it seems the Blogrole and post categories are affected by this merging. The question is how do we fix it?

This merging is really problematic for me because I had both a link/blogroll category and a post category that shared the same name. Now that the two are merged, I can’t really separate the two.

Does anybody here know how to separate the two in a way that won’t blow away the posts? Will I need to blow away my blogroll and rebuild?

This move just didn’t make any sense. Unless post categories are replaced completely with tags, there’s no rhyme or reason for this merging.

Or simply make it optional – that would make a lot of WP site owners much, much happier.

My problem is that I use Blogrolling.com for my blogrolls. I used the Links section of WP for all the multiple links I had. I used the post categories to add searching and categorizing of the posts.

This change in WP assumes that everyone blogrolls (links to other blogs). Those of us who used WP more for CMS are SOL.

To me, post categories and link categories were two very separate entities.

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I’m sorry. I just don’t understand. I want my blogroll sorted by categories. Everybody refers me back to help such as https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories but I just don’t understand it.

Right now, my blogroll is listed as:
<?php get_links(-1, '<li>', '</li>', '', FALSE, 'name', FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE); ?>

Can someone please tell me how to edit this line? I’m sorry, I’m just a dork and can’t understand all of the code. I’m a copy/paste kindof guy.

So, is there anyone that can fix this or is it just a wordpress 2.1 bug and we have to wait for 2.11?

I think this this merging of blogroll and post cats was one of those things where the developers said “we know better than all of you” without actually explaining their logic or rationale, and without bringing it up with the user community-at-large to discuss.

So the developers – for whom these issues usually aren’t as big a deal because they know the workarounds ahead of time – forge ahead without asking “how will this affect the users who may think differently?” It’s short-sighted and aggravating, to say the least.

I’ve had to completely blow away my blogroll and most post categories just to get things back in order, and it’s still a mess. Yes there’s not a peep from the WordPress developer community, other than “well shucks, that’s a pickle” (or something to that effect). That’s the kind of non-answer I expect from Micro$oft, not from the usually-user-centric WP dev folk.

Oh well. I’m gonna chalk this up as a blip (but a costly one in terms of work cycles wasted to adapt to a needless “enhancement” of WordPress), and hope that 2.1.1 or 2.2 gets things right.

The new links functionality is not that difficult, I don’t understand what all the fuss is about.

Basically, you just don’t use get_links or wp_get_links anymore. Use wp_list_bookmarks instead.

That’s it. From a theme editing and/or development standpoint, that’s all you do. There’s virtually no difference to the end user other than that.

Yes, there are improvements to be made, but it’s not all the complex change that you guys are making it out to be. The change is minor, the implications large, and the end-user changes minimal. It’s just not a big deal, really.

@sofsoldier: Your error is not specifically because of links. You have a database problem. Try repairing it in myPhpAdmin or have your host check to make sure that the database server isn’t having issues with full /tmp space.