Links - Wordpress sites using old themes

[Paul&John]

Hi!

Seems like the get_links() function got deprecated not so long ago and a parameter was added to it (don't know when):

$show_updated
(int) (Optional) Whether to show last updated timestamp.
Default value: 1

The thing with this piece of parameter is (which is by default on) that it automatically inserts a text into the title part of the a href: (Last updated December 31, 1969 7:00 pm).. so it will look like this:

<a href="https://www.domain.com" title=" (Last updated December 31, 1969 7:00 pm)">Domain</a>

Last time WP wasn't doing this, but today I updated some sites to WP6.0 then added some links and at first couldn't figure out while is that last updated part included.. I guess only old themes are affected, where that parameter isn't set to disabled and maybe the new themes are using the newer function called get_bookmarks()..

Anyway if you have some sites on older themes check if you aren't affected by the same issue. Also it can be fixed by editing get_links() in the sidebar.php file.. usually from:

<?php get_links(-1, '<li>', '</li>', ' - '); ?>

to this:

<?php get_links(-1, '<li>', '</li>', ' - ',true,'name',true,false,-1,0); ?>

[NatalieK]

when you say "old" themes, like how old?

we´ve not had any problems like this with outs, not of what we´ve noticed, but thank you for the info anyway

[Paul&John]

Like super old.. one of the themes was made for Wordpress 2.6 which was released back in 2008 lol