Wordpress sidebar issue

[BigVikingAl]

I just loaded the latest verison of WP for a new blog. I have created a new link category called friends but I don't know how to get it in my sidebar. I have this code:

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

which shows all my links together(friends, blogroll etc). I wan't to have them under seperate headings. Old installations of WP have the following code to dispaly link categories:

<?php get_links(2, '<li>', '</li>', '', TRUE, 'name', FALSE,TRUE);>


<?php get_links(3, '<li>', '</li>
', '', TRUE, 'name', FALSE,TRUE);>

There seems to be no way of assigning category ID numbers for my links as in the older versions of WP. Any ideas?

[Erotic Effect]

Originally Posted by BigVikingAl

I just loaded the latest verison of WP for a new blog. I have created a new link category called friends but I don't know how to get it in my sidebar. I have this code:

There seems to be no way of assigning category ID numbers for my links as in the older versions of WP. Any ideas?

For the same reason I had to insert, under (or above) the link category, something like this:

            <div class="your_right_column_headings">
                      <h2>Heading</h2>
            </div>

<ul class="you_right_column_list">
     <span class="your_class_for_links">
       <table width="1%" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
         <tr><td nowrap><a href="http://blabla.com" target="_blank">Blabla</a></td></tr>
         <tr><td nowrap><a href="http://gogo.com" target="_blank">Gogo</a></td></tr>
       </table>
</span>
</ul>

And put all links manually.

[BigVikingAl]

Come on really. That's BS. You mean Wordpress doesn't let you set or call different link categories in version 2.7? Where can I get an older version then?

[Itchy]

This might be the tag your looking for
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_...list_bookmarks

[Mordhaus]

uh, in the current version of wp, when you add a link, after name, address, and description, theres a box for categories. make a couple of categories, and stick your links in there.
The links on this test blog http://simpleadultwordpressthemes.com/test/ were added and display under different headings, with no coding in the sidebar at all with the default theme, just set to different categories.