Quiet Night on the Blogging Front

Hello to the people who are visiting as a result of hearing something or following a link on Facebook. I don’t understand these things except to say that someone appears to be passing round a link to my blog via a message system, or email or something. My logs tell me this, I have no idea how it works.

Are there any of you out there who can help me with setting up Wordpress? I would like my links to go into categories, but at the moment they are just showing in one long list. I know it is something to do with changing something in the template but I don’t really know what to change. I know other police bloggers use Wordpress & have their links showing in categories, how do I do this - help!?

5 comments

1. Stan Still says:

   Links in categories - dead easy. Much easier than Blogger!

   When you go into your Wordpress dashboard, you will see a tab called Blogroll. Go into it and you will see a number of blogroll options.

   Create your new categories by clicking “Add New” under the “Category” tab. Give them a name, which will be the title of your category box. You can also put a sub-heading in there.

   Next, go back to the “Manage Blogroll” tab. Add your link and all relevant stuff, but make sure you give your new entry a category title. When you save and publish, they will all be there waiting to be visited.

   Hope this helps?

   March 4th, 2008 at 8:03 am

2. 200 says:

   Stan,

   thanks for the suggestion, close but no cigar.

   I’ve got my link categories set up and links in all 3 categories - Police Blogging, other blogging & police stuff.
   The problem is that they are listed alphabetically and not by category order. I’ve researched a& found that you can change a code in the template fill so link categories show up, but I don’t know what to change so the links are split into their already existing categories.

   March 4th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

3. ed says:

   this looks to sum it up i think:

   http://hackwordpress.com/wordpress-blogroll-code-separating-your-categories/

   March 6th, 2008 at 11:37 am

4. 200 says:

   Ed,

   thanks for the link, I tried out the code suggested but it still doesn’t work, in fact it doesn’t appear to do anything at all even when I add it twice in different places.
   I’m sure it’s template related so will have to research some more.

   March 6th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

5. ed says:

   apologies.

   we dont use that blogroll sidebar list on the wordpress site i manage.
   we do use a plugin that lists them by category on a single page, but no on the sidebar.

   are you using a widget based theme ?

   March 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am

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