Changing order of items in sidebar (I know it’s possible)

Go in your control panel and select presentation then select Sidebar Template this is where WP places the code when you add new categories. Unfortunitly you may have to do this every time you add a category since WP adds them to the top.

You’ll see code similar to this:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>’ . __(‘About’) . ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

• <h2><?php _e(‘Archives’); ?></h2>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

• <h2><?php _e(‘Categories’); ?></h2>

<?php list_cats(0, ”, ‘name’, ‘asc’, ”, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,”,”,”,”,”) ?>

The above code has set up the order to: About, Archive, Catagories

Simply reorder the li item containing each element and reorder them in the order you would liek them to show up.

i.e. like below. I changed the order to: About, Catagories, Archives.

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>’ . __(‘About’) . ‘</h2>’ ); ?>

• <h2><?php _e(‘Categories’); ?></h2>

<?php list_cats(0, ”, ‘name’, ‘asc’, ”, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,”,”,”,”,”) ?>

• <h2><?php _e(‘Archives’); ?></h2>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

Just take your time and back up your code before you reorder them in case you miss something or make a mistake you can easily do it over.

Just open the sidebar.php file and rearrange things (carefully) like you would a document. Cut, move to where you want it, and paste.

Be very careful to keep all your LI and ULs together (look for the ending
and
to help you keep things together.

Thanks for the quick replies. I realize I was unclear. I’ve edited sidebar.php, no problem doing as you suggest. My issue is that I have two classes of links: links and resources – and I want them to appear BEFORE the archive stuff, and, I want Resources to appear before Links. I know it can be done, a guy hooked me up before, but I can’t for the life of me see where to make changes! ARRRG! Love WP though! -kj-

Then you were misleading everybody with your thread title ??
Your question is: how can I change the order of Link categories displayed in my sidebar?

Okay, copy the Links section and cut it. Move your cursor to below the Resources section and paste the Links section below it.

I know this must sound idiot and unkind, but that is EXACTLY what you do. You are making this way too hard. Just move the information to the sequence you want.

So, for example, instead of this:

# <h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>
# <h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

You would cut and paste it to look like this:

# <h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
# <h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>

You guys still don’t get it!
S/he wants to change the LINK CATEGORIES order.

If the Resources cat has a higher ID than the Links cat, then you could just use
<ul>
<?php get_links_list('id'); ?>
</ul>

Otherwise maybe use <?php wp_get_links(category); ?> and then have it once for each cat?

GOT IT!!! Thanks. Sorry for being so dense, once I saw this code:

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php get_links_list(‘id’); ?>

I knew I had to cut and paste it into the right spot, which I have, and now all is well.

I really appreciate it everyone. Thanks. Have a good night.

-kj-