wekko

livelearncreate’s solution is nice, but I changed it a bit. I wanted the link categories to be shown too. Also, I didn’t want to split up the categories. That means not every column will have the same height (except when they have the same amount of links) but that was not a big of a deal for me. If you still want that you should combine mine and livelearncreate’s code.

<?php
            $nrOfColumns = 5;

            $terms = get_terms('link_category', 'orderby=name') ;

            $rowsPerColumn = round(count($terms)/$nrOfColumns);

            for($i = 0; $i<$nrOfColumns; $i++) {
                echo '<div class="column" id="column-' . $i . '">';
                for($j = ($i * $rowsPerColumn); $j<($rowsPerColumn * ($i+1)); $j++) {
                    if(!isset($terms[$j]))
                        continue;

                    $bookmarks = get_bookmarks('category=' . $terms[$j]->term_id);
                    ?>
                    <h2><?php echo $terms[$j]->name; ?></h2>
                    <ul>
                        <?php
                        foreach($bookmarks as $bookmark) {
                            echo '<li><a href="' . $bookmark->link_url . '">' . $bookmark->link_name . '</a></li>';
                        }
                        ?>
                    </ul>
                    <?php
                }
                echo '</div>';
            }
         ?>

The corresponding CSS:

#footer div.footer-menu .column { float: left; width: 170px; margin-right: 10px; }
    #footer div.footer-menu .column ul { padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc; }
  #footer div.footer-menu h2 { font-size: 10pt; color: #fff; margin: 0; font-weight: bold; }

You can change the number of columns by changing the $nrOfColumns variable to a different number. Also note the column width and margin width in the first line of the CSS.

Frank