Export Links for future; WP version

Might also consider exporting your links to del.icio.us and using an RSS widget to display those links on all your blog.

Here’s discussion on export/import to del.icio.us:
https://perishablepress.com/press/2007/07/10/bookmark-exodus-export-the-wordpress-blogroll-and-import-to-delicious/

Along with Michael’s suggestion, there is also a method for exporting your blogroll provided with WordPress. The file wp-links-opml.php should exist in your blog’s top level directory:

https://www.example.com/blog/wp-links-opml.php

With the url (or as a file saved locally and uploaded) you could import your links through Blogroll > Import Links.

oh my, I didn’t know about that, Thankx for the reply!

The problem with that method is that the blogroll categories are not preserved, and everything gets imported into one category. Does anyone know of a way to import the OPML file and preserve the categories?

I’ve done some checking and the category field is apparently empty on export because the field is only apparently used on a join. The actual category listing appears to come out of one of the wp_term* databases and therefore cannot be easily dumped or loaded without heuristic gyrations on both sides of the process.

What would be really, really useful would be in the categories field in the wp_links table was used so that the links (which are an entirely different animal than posts) could be entirely self contained, and blogrolls could be exported by table dump or plugin with categories intact.

Can that option be added so that those installations where it would be beneficial to export/import links could actually do so? I don’t see any real need to have blogroll links in the same category architecture as posts… and certainly not on a forced basis.

TIA.