Newbie links/page questions

  • Any enlightenment is much appreciated. I have two issues:

    1) Ordering links: I’m looking to use WP for CMS, no blogs, so trying to set up static pages with links in sidebar. I chose a theme to edit (Ausena) and am finding my way around OK. I have 3 link categories and a handful of links in each.

    First I added the links widget, but there appears to be no way to order the categories or the links within. I have tried rating each link which does a fine job of allowing the re-ordering of the links within the admin panel, but not on the page. And the link categories only seem to sort by alpha order. So I decided to try the wp_list_bookmarks approach with various sorting parameters.

    I found in my sidebar.php the following:

    <?php wp_list_categories(‘show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>’); ?>
    <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
    <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>

    So it appears the bookmarks list should appear in the sidebar on my home page as the page.php indeed has <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in it. However I cannot seem to get any bookmarks/links to show whether or not I put parameters in between the (). (Unless I have the widget turned on which I can’t seem to re-order in any way.)

    2) Static Page: In my Reading Settings I have “A static page” checked and my only existing page selected as the front page. However, at the bottom of my one test column of text I get an “Edit this entry” link, which I don’t want. Does that mean WP is looking at this as a blog? I just want a normal looking web page, no ability to edit text.

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  • Hi

    take a look at this plugin, for ordering links the way you want them
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/my-link-order/

    at the bottom of my one test column of text I get an “Edit this entry” link, which I don’t want.

    This only appears for logged in users who have priveleges that let them edit content. It appears on both posts and pages. It does not mean that WP is looking at your site like a blog. Its intended to save you time so when you see some little thing that needs changing you can click one link and have that post open in the editor.

    if you really don’t want it on your pages, edit your template files and remove this line of code (depending on the theme it may be worded slightly differently) <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>
    Don’t worry, no casual user sees that at all. Only you. test it – log out and refresh.

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