Comments on: Reorder WordPress Link Categories

By: Dustin Gurley

Dustin Gurley — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:35:38 +0000

this still works in wordpress 3, after accessing database, browse wp_terms, edit with the listed above inserts () and voila.

By: Chestin

Chestin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:25:43 +0000

I’m a complete and utter hack when it comes to this kind of stuff so I honestly have NO CLUE what I’m doing. That’s why I thank my lucky stars every day for support forums and sites like this.

Anyway, I tried the initial suggestion, but as Ryan pointed out, it no longer works. The ‘‘ was showing up along side the link name.

So I figured I’d try putting in a space in front of the name and it worked! I had about 20 links total within 3 different categories and I wanted to rearrange just a handful of them.

For the one I wanted to appear at the top of the category, I put the most number of spaces, and then decreased the spaces as the listing went down.

And sure enough, when I checked my site, the links appeared in the desired order and the name was aligned left, along with all the other links.

Anyway, I hope this helps others that are searching for a way to rearrange the links in the Blogrolls!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:03:10 +0000

@Ryan: Which version of WP are you running? Have you tried with a non-web-based tool like MySQL Query Browser? It wouldn’t shock me if they did start escaping on output rather than input, which they do now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:29:36 +0000

This no longer works. Even updating it within the database in something like phpAdmin, the link name gets printed out and the extra dash of the HTML comment removed, so that it shows in the sidebar.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:31:42 +0000

Thanks, I can’t believe there isn’t a plugin for this yet. There still isn’t a way to export a blogroll either. Great Hack! Saves the trouble of going into the sidebar and placing get_links_list() everywhere!

What happens if some categories are edited with the comment and some aren’t? Like if I add a new category from the admin panel.

Thanks again!

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:34:08 +0000

sorry, danee — but editing within wp-admin (at least in version 2.0, ahem — somebody hasn’t upgraded lately), you’ll end up with

<!–03–>Elsewhere

wp “conveniently” escapes the characters, as mentioned above.

By: danee

danee — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:49:08 +0000

No need to actually go into the db manager– you can rename the categories within wordpress manager with this tag.

By: Antz

Antz — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:40:59 +0000

Thanks, really appreciate it!

About what Hawke said, instead of adding all the to the categorys, you could make the category you want to display last have a comment like , that would surely work.

Thanks again!

By: Eddy Yanto

Eddy Yanto — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:43:12 +0000

nice but dirty hack :)

By: cuz

cuz — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:08:33 +0000

This is great. Thanks. Of course, after using this hack, it’s necessary to make all changes in mysql rather than through the WP interface. Or, at the very least, you now have to revisit the database to rename the category all over again. A small price to pay for the flexibility.