Blogrolls are just a series of links you want to provide your visitors. Each link (blogroll entry) can be categoried.
Examples of categories of links (blogroll)
1. Sites I recommend
2. Partner Sites
3. Sites related to topic xyz
It is just a bit confusing, why would a series of links be listed as a category?
Thanks for your reply Michael
I am still confused with this Blogroll category. What types of posts should I use this for? All of them plus place them in other categories?
I know this sounds stupid but I have been using this category in a different way for all of this time while not really exactly sure of the purpose and I believe I am not alone…
I am also a bit confused by your answer,”a series of links”… By links you basically mean a series of links to blog posts I categorize with this category? No?
Thanks again… I just want to understand this category thing before I go and organize..
Webdevoman
Look in your WordPress admin. There are posts and posts can have categories (Administration > Posts > Categories).
Also, there are links/blogroll (Administration > Links > Add New) and links are assigned link categories Links > Link Categories.
Might also review WordPress Semantics
Actually I use this handy feature, having five categories of external links showing in seperate locations on my site in my right sidebar and my right-column.
The only thing that was a bit confusing once, is that the link-category-id’s are in the same numbered list in your database as the post-category-id’s. But you will never notice that in the Dashboard.
You can only select post-categories when writing a post and link-categories when adding a link.
