Comments on: Wordpress Blogroll Dropdown

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:48:59 +0000

Danny, the problem is the category taxonomy changed some time ago. The Link Category (cat_id) is now held in the taxonomy files and takes extra work to validate through queries.

I will try to do this when I get some available time.

By: Andi

Andi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:30:04 +0000

Trying the same thing as Danny – anyone have suggestions?

By: danny

danny — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:15:58 +0000

sweet code.

I was trying to figure out if I can seperate links by category though. I seperate my blogroll olinks depending on what kind of link it is. Is it possible to only list links in one category, then use the code again to list link in another category?

I tried adding this in the function code: “cat_id = 2″… example:

“SELECT link_url, link_name, link_description FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_visible = ‘Y’ , cat_id = 2 Order By link_name”;

doesn’t work though. any suggestions?

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:15:57 +0000

Typically items like this are placed in the sidebar. With that said, the first thing you have to establish is whether you are using widgets or not. If you are using widgets this code has to go before or after the call to the widgets in the sidebar. If you are not using widgets, you can place the code in the sidebar code where you want it to appear.

If that does not help, send me your email address in the contact form on this site and I will try to help you some more.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:19:57 +0000

Hi David

I am not a PHP person, but I would like to try to get this to work. I added the code to my functions.php file (I am using WP 2.7.1 and ‘This Just In’ as my template) but I haven’t figured out the most appropriate place to put the call. I’ve tried a few things, but no luck.

This is exactly what I am looking for, but I know I am missing something in order to use it properly. I am pretty comfortable with HTML, but this is a bit new to me.

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:29:48 +0000

Trendland,
Here is a revised version to solve both those issues,

By: Trendland

Trendland — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:32:57 +0000

David,
Thanks a lot for this code, it works perfectly for me, but i have just two quick questions :
#1 how to make the links open in a new window ?

#2 how to organize them by category ?

on my blogroll manager, they are all set by categories and open in new window – would love to know how to make those two options incorporated into the drop down menu

otherwise thanks a lot for your code =]

By: Yashni Marad

Yashni Marad — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:26:34 +0000

What is captcha code?, pls provide me captcha code codes or plugin, Thanks in advance.

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:21:23 +0000

Andi, your welcome. If you have a new link I will be glad to add it. And thanks for doing the script the first time, it was a real time saver and very helpful.

By: Andi Eko

Andi Eko — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:06:17 +0000

Thank you for revising the script. I did that script at the older wordpress. I’ve forgot in which version.