Title: Error in blogroll
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error in blogroll

 *  [Gursimran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gursimran/)
 * (@gursimran)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/)
 * I upgraded my worpdress by uploading all new files. My blog was fine. Then i 
   went to my admin area. it said to upgrade my database after that i nticewd that
   in my blogroll there is an error. Guys plz help me
    [http://www.blogofwebmasters.com/](http://www.blogofwebmasters.com/)

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 *  [dlsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlsmith/)
 * (@dlsmith)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573452)
 * I am experiencing the same problem. I also cannot add categories to my new posts.
 *  [dlsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlsmith/)
 * (@dlsmith)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573453)
 * This is what I get:
 * WordPress database error:
 * [Unknown column ‘link_count’ in ‘where clause’]
    SELECT cat_ID FROM wp_categories
   WHERE category_parent = 0 AND ( link_count = 0 OR category_count != 0 OR ( link_count
   = 0 AND category_count = 0 ) ) ORDER BY category_count DESC
 *  Thread Starter [Gursimran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gursimran/)
 * (@gursimran)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573455)
 * This is not fair guy plz help me out
    ppl are emailing me their links are lot
   Help me its urgent
 *  [dlsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlsmith/)
 * (@dlsmith)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573552)
 * I found the nature of my problem: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111398?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111398?replies=2)
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573557)
 * Gursimran: Your problem is most likely that your theme uses an old way of generating
   the blogroll. You need to change your theme to use wp_list_bookmarks() instead.

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-blogroll/#post-573557)
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