Upgrade issue with links

I had exactly the same problem,and I may have fixed it, but badly. If it helps, some additional info: I am hosted on dreamhost, and the full error message says:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM

The problem is in the theme. In my case, the Orchids theme by Sunarayo Hadi. The troublesome command is in sidebar.php.

I just cut out the relevant bit and pasted in a different way of including links from the ocadia theme, where the entire SQL call block is replaced with the line:

<?php if (is_home()) { get_links_list(); } ?>

I found the get_links_list() function in the links.php file in the wp-includes directory. It is a temp fix, because now the links appear but the font style is wrong for the title “blogroll”, so I’ll have to poke around a bit more.

Aside, I don’t know any PHP or MySQL, this is just hackwork from my programming knowledge from elsewhere… if somebody could post a better fix ??

The following code snippet fixes this issue. It replaces everything between the Archives li and the Meta li in sidebar.php. The problem was twofold.

• The SQL select statement referenced the old schema. The old schema had a separate linkcategories table. The new schema has one categories table and a couple of association tables to join posts and links to a category. The new select statement performs the join between the categories and link2cat tables.
• The call to wp_get_links needed another argument in order to render an HTML li element for each link. Without this argument, the css renders the links as #sidebar ul li instead of #sidebar li ul li. Try saying that three times really fast.

<?php
 $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("select distinct cat_id , cat_name from $wpdb->categories c, wp_link2cat l where c.cat_id = l.category_id");
 foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
  <li id="linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>"><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?>
   <ul>
    <?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id .'&before=<li>'); ?>
   </ul>
  </li>
<?php } ?>

Happy blogging. Roger Weinheimer (72hills)

Just curious as to why they completely changed the links piece. I actually liked the way it was. I guess there are needs for some but what a pain it was to find the info to fix it and the fact that you can’t change get_links_list so the formating works without forcing the

• . I spent an hours screwing with the links.php setting before realizing it wasn’t doing it.