Title: Links tooltips Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Links tooltips * [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/) * On index.php, the floating window over a given link shows up as : ‘last updated% 31/%12/%1969 %04:%00 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23485) * Thanks, I believe that needs to be updated in the options code. You should use the same syntax there that you do for the other date formating, namely that from the PHP date function. [http://php.net/date](http://php.net/date) * [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/) * (@dougal) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23490) * I had spotted that Friday night, but didn’t get a chance to update a fix over the weekend. * Thread Starter [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23493) * Hmm…I simply changed the date format in the link manager options, and now the floating window doesn’t show up at all. 🙂 * [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris/) * (@chris) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23496) * The dates show up for me, but they are all “12/31/1969 07:00” unless they have updated.. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23501) * The 1969 thing is fixed in the CVS. Cena, can you check your options and see if the updated title is enabled, and check the code to see if it’s there? Or maybe you’re running a CVS version and it just hasn’t picked up any changes yet. Is there anything in your weblogs.com.cache file? * Thread Starter [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23502) * I am running a CVS version and there’s nothing in the cache file. * [scooter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scooter/) * (@scooter) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23503) * which file in the CVS needs to be downloaded? * [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/) * (@dougal) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23504) * I’ve committed changes to CVS for wp-links/links.php, wp-admin/wp-install.php and wp-admin/upgrade-071-to-072.php for this. If you have the latest CVS version of links.php, then make sure that in “Options/Link Manager Settings”, you’ve removed the ‘%’ characters from links_updated_date_format. Also, in your template, you have to uncomment this line: require_once($abspath.’wp-links/links.weblogs. com.php’); * Thread Starter [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23508) * Uncommenting that line causes the following: Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /wordpress/wp-links/links.weblogs.com.php on line 93 Warning: file(“ [http://www.weblogs.com/changes.xml”](http://www.weblogs.com/changes.xml”);)– Bad file descriptor in /wordpress/wp-links/links.weblogs.com.php on line 93 Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /wordpress/wp-links/links.weblogs.com.php on line 93 * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23517) * That means that it couldn’t open the changes file on the weblogs.com server. This could be for a couple of reasons. On some systems opening remote files through PHP is turned off in a misguided attempt at security. The other possibility is that weblogs.com just wasn’t accessibile (for whatever reason) when it tried to connect. So I would try again, and if it still doesn’t work then contact your host. * [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris/) * (@chris) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23518) * Now, I tried to fix it and I’m getting: Warning: fopen(weblogs.com.changes.cache): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/monosyll/public_html/log/wp- links/links.weblogs.com.php on line 99 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/monosyll/public_html/log/wp-links/links. weblogs.com.php on line 100 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/monosyll/public_html/log/wp-links/links.weblogs.com. php on line 101 * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23525) * Did you chmod 666 your weblogs.com cache file per the instructions? * Thread Starter [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23531) * Okay, now it’s showing the notes correctly in the tooltip, but still no go on the date/time of last update. * [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/) * (@mikelittle) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23533) * Hi Cena, The updated date and time only gets stored in the database when a link matches one in the file pulled from weblogs.com. So if the link wasn’t listed on weblogs.com at the time the cache file was updated then it won’t have a date at all (or it will have an old one). This is a compromise because the amount of time taken to retrieve and process the xml file from weblogs.com can be considerable. So a cached copy of the file is kept, but only processed once. Does that make sense? Mike * Thread Starter [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/) * (@cena) * [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/#post-23537) * It sure does. Now I can get on with fussing over other fiddly details. 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Links tooltips’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 22 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/) * Last activity: [23 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-tooltips/page/2/#post-23728) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics