hacking the sidebar in default 1.5

not for those who want to use other themes but here’s my hack to links.php (line 500 or so):


// USER EDIT:
// get_links_list applies

• tags to category headers
  // making the possiblity of using CSS to apply background images
  // AND custom bullets to links impossible. Hack is to remove the outer
  // list from sidebar.php in the theme, so that headers are exposed purely
  // as <h2> and to rework the below.
  //
  // // Display the category name
  // echo ' <li id="linkcat-' . $cat['link_category'] . '"><h2>' . $cat['cat_name'] . "</h2>\n\t

\n";
// Call get_links() with all the appropriate params
// get_links($cat['link_category'],
// '
• ',"

","\n",
// bool_from_yn($cat['show_images']),
// $orderby,
// bool_from_yn($cat['show_description']),
// bool_from_yn($cat['show_rating']),
// $cat['list_limit'],
// bool_from_yn($cat['show_updated']));
// // Close the last category
// echo "\n\t

\n

\n";
echo ' <h2 id="linkcat-' . $cat['link_category'] . '">' . $cat['cat_name'] . "</h2>\n\t

\n";
// Call get_links() with all the appropriate params
get_links($cat['link_category'],
'
• ',"

","\n",
bool_from_yn($cat['show_images']),
$orderby,
bool_from_yn($cat['show_description']),
bool_from_yn($cat['show_rating']),
$cat['list_limit'],
bool_from_yn($cat['show_updated']));
// Close the last category
echo "\n\t

\n";

I did a similar thing. In my CSS, I defined how I wanted li to look. At first, I had just removed the <li> tag from links.php, and added to the end of it, and got what I wanted. But now I want to control how each skin shows the links, so I put the <li> back in.

I can show you my code if you’d like.