Upgraded to 2.1 - Some bookmarks adjustments

Posted on January 24, 2007 One Comment

I bit the bullet and did the upgrade this evening, once I saw that there seemed to be a simple patch for the UTW issues I had mentioned the other day.

First I backed up the database. Then I backed up the entire site. I may jump into things, but I'm a born pessimist first!

Once I was done with the upgrade, one issue stood out: I'd lost my "Links" section in the footer. First, my template was using

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<?php wp_get_links(2); ?>

(category 2 is the only one I wanted to show links for).

After the upgrade, and the category merging that is part of 2.1, I saw that what used to be 2 was now 20. Ok, so I switched it to

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<?php wp_get_links(20); ?>

After looking closer, I realized I didn't care for how that was displaying -- the descriptions were listed instead of being "fly over" title attributes. Yuck. I dimly recalled seeing something about wp_list_bookmarks() mentioned in the WP Support Forums, so I looked into that a bit.

The default was close, but not quite right. Each of my footer columns has a header tag, and wp_list_bookmarks was adding another. I commented out my header, but then realized the header it was adding was part of the list, so it didn't line up very well.

After much dinking around, I came up with something that feels like a hack, but disables the wp_list_bookmarks header:

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<?php wp_list_bookmarks('orderby=rand&category=20&title_before='); ?>

Yep, by using title_before and title_after parameters, I'm essentially commenting out the title that's added. I'm sure there's a better way (duh!) but this works for now.

The tabbed editor is pretty slick, as is the auto-save thing. However, it doesn't work well with my code format plugin. So, I still need to turn off the fancy editor when showing code. Ah well.

Tags: Links, ultimate-tag-warrior, upgrade, WordPress