You’ll need to tweak your template for the upcoming WP 2.0.2 because it changes the way Links are handled. The new Bookmarks interface is used. So what happens with your sidebar template is that post categories are listed along with link categories, and under the post category headings no items are listed. You can call get_links_list instead of using all of your sidebar the template code in that particular area.
The workaround I made was to hack up a copy of get_links_list function (as seen in template-functions-bookmarks.php) to allow me to pass my own heading tags. I put this function (below) in a my-hacks.php file:
function get_my_links_list($order = 'name', $heading_before='<h3>',$heading_after='</h3>',$item_before='<li>',$item_after='</li>') {
$order = strtolower($order);
// Handle link category sorting
$direction = 'ASC';
if (substr($order,0,1) == '_') {
$direction = 'DESC';
$order = substr($order,1);
}
if (!isset($direction)) $direction = '';
$cats = get_categories("type=link&orderby=$order&order=$direction");
// Display each category
if ($cats) {
foreach ($cats as $cat) {
// Handle each category.
// Display the category name
echo $heading_before . $cat->cat_name . $heading_after . "\n\t";
echo '<ul class="navlist" id="linkcat-' . $cat->cat_id . '">'
get_links($cat->cat_ID, $item_before,$item_after,"\n");
// Close the last category
echo "nt</ul>n</li>\n";
}
}
}
And call it in the sidebar template like this, all vars included for simple example:
<?php if(get_option('tarski_sidebar_links')) { // links block ?>
<?php
// first parm can be ID, name, count, or other wp_categories database field suffix
get_my_links_list('ID','<h3>','</h3>','<li>','</li>');
?>
Maybe I didn’t need to do all that — not sure. I haven’t scoured the latest code to see. But at least your template works now with the latest nightly builds. If there’s an easier way then to handle this then I’d apprecite any advice from people using the nightly builds.
