Title: Links Description?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Links Description?

 *  [kai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kai/)
 * (@kai)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/)
 * Hey All,
    Can anybody point me in the right direction for the following: On my
   homepage, in the links column, I would like the description of the link to show
   up, but I can’t seem to get it to show anything but the name. An example of what
   I want is at [Todd Dominey’s site](http://www.whatdoiknow.org), in the left column
   titled “Enjoying”. Any ideas?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31768)
 * Have you tried putting what you want into the ‘description’ line when adding 
   the link ?
    It works for me ?
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31777)
 * kai,
    Go into your WP admin UI, and then choose LINKS > LINK CATEGORIES. The 
   fourth column from the left is SHOW DESC? and likely all of your categories show‘
   N’ in this field. Change that to ‘Y’, and then ensure that you have added a description
   like podz suggested above and you will see your descriptions. Craig.
 *  Thread Starter [kai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kai/)
 * (@kai)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31784)
 * Thanks for the help…I’d actually done all of those steps but had put the description
   into the notes textbox rather than the description.
    One last question, is there
   a function that can limit which categories of links get spit out on the homepage?
   On the homepage I’d only like one category output. Cheers. Kai
 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31790)
 * `
    <?php wp_get_links(#)?>  replace # with the id for the category you want to
   display (the id numbers are displayed on the Links->Link Categories page)
 *  Thread Starter [kai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kai/)
 * (@kai)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31792)
 * Ahh, thanks!!
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31803)
 * Last question of kai’s has been added to the Wiki under [WordPress Tips](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WordPress%20Tips).
   
   Craig.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-description/#post-31803)
 * Status: not resolved

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