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1. prazim
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi,
   I came across a blog the other day where the author segmented her blogroll with spaces between those that begin with a different letter (so the A's were all grouped together, etc). It made it very easy to peruse and I'd like to do that on my own blog. Does this require a plug in, or special coding?
   Thanks!
   Sue

2. ehnika
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Personally haven't run across this in the past.... Did you consider contacting the site's author/maintainer and asking how it was done?

3. prazim
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Actually, I think it was a blogger platform blog.

4. prazim
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi,
   I wanted to share with you that I have figured out how to do this.

   First of all, create separate categories for each group of blogs beginning with each letter of the alphabet for which you have blogs; for example: blogs_a, blogs_d, etc, and make note of the category id WordPress assigns to each one.

   Edit your sidebar.php file where you want the blogroll to appear and insert this code:

   <h2>Great Blogs (or whatever you want to call them)</h2>

   <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=7&categorize=0&title_li=0'); ?>

   replace the "7" in the string "category=7" with each new blog category you want to present and insert the

   and

   codes to separate each group.

   That's it!

5. Dgold
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I just combined prazim's code explanation of wp_list_bookmarks, with Otto's PHP Code executing widget:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

   This is the first time I've been able to separate my bookmarks by category, into different sidebars, using Widgets. (Normally I just don't even use widgets, the code is easier for me, but in this case I needed the widgets for a client site to make it easier for them to shift the puzzle pieces around).

   I just put that code right into the PHP widget.

   <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=7&categorize=0&title_li=0'); ?>

   Oh, I added a few more parameters that I heard about here:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks

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