mandrill

Is there any way to code this functionality directly into the existing pages widget, like it is in the category widget? Rather than having to use template tags or an external plugin, I’d quite like to get WP doing this out of the box.

The code for a drop down is there, all thats required is to activate that code rather than the usual list with a checkbox in the settings for the pages widget.

So what do I replace the following code with to get a list of the links I have separated by their category. I don’t see an answer to that question anywhere above.
‘<?php $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”);
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
<li id=”linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>”><h2><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h2>

<?php get_links($link_cat->cat_id, ‘
• ‘, ‘

‘, ”, TRUE, ‘id’, FALSE, FALSE); ?>

‘
Currently I'm getting a MySQL syntax error in the query:
“SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories”`

I agree, a system much like you see on many forums would probably be the best way to go about it. Where the user is sent an email with a link they have to click to activate their account. Or even if the email that the admin gets to inform them that a new user has signed up includes an option to approve them or not, much like the comment moderation system.