accessing link descriptions

  • bdee1

    (@bdee1)


    12 years ago

    I am wondering if there is a simple way to access the description field for links.

    I have a 3rd party plugin (Hierarchical Link Categories) which has a custom function for displaying the links in nested categories. Unfortunately it does not provide a way to display the link descriptions in this format. So I would like to modify their plugin to include descriptions.

    I knwo that I can do something like this to query the wordpress database, but I am not sure where the link descriptions live…
    <?php $link_desc = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT something FROM wp_something WHERE somthing”) ?>.

    can someone point me in the right direction here?

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  • Chris

    (@zenation)

    If you are using link manager in the WordPress backend the links will be stored in the {prefix}_links table that has kinda self-explaining columns like ‘link_url’, ‘link_name’, ‘link_description’…

    I haven’t checked your specific plugin’s approach but generally speaking, instead of quering the database yourself you could simply use

    $links = get_bookmarks(
  array(
    'orderby'          => 'name',
    'order'            => 'ASC',
    'limit'            => -1
  )
);

foreach( $links as $link ) {
  // $link->link_url
  // $link->link_link_name
  // $link->link_description
  // ...
}
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