Arraging links

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  loogaroo · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 1:41 am

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  Is there a way to arrange the links on a sidebar in a different order than the default? The categories would stay the same, I just need the links to be in a different order within each category.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 1:48 am

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  We can’t answer technical questions without a link to your blog, starting with http.

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  loogaroo · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 1:54 am

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  http://loogslair.wordpress.com

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 4:45 am

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  Thank you. Other than grouping them alphabetically within each category, there doesn’t seem to be a way other than numbering them.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 4:46 am

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  Oh duh, I found this after another search

  http://support.wordpress.com/blogroll/edit-a-blogroll-link/

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  loogaroo · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 8:34 am

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  Thanks for the link, but it appears that the Filter button only sorts the links as you’re viewing them on the Edit page, and not on the blog itself.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 10:25 am

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  To arrange your links in a non-alphabetical order, you must remove the Links widget and use a Text widget instead, coding the links as an unordered list.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2009 at 10:27 am

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  Long ago in the mists of time there was another way involving punctuation marks, but I can’t find it anywhere on the forums now and am no longer sure it works anyway. It was something like, use one . for the first entry, two .. for the second so

  .blogroll item one
  ..blogroll item two
  …blogroll item three

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  sisypheha · Member · Aug 23, 2009 at 8:30 pm

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  I have the same problem, I can’t even tell in what order it is sorting it for me. my blog is not in English, and I really need the links to be in order. can I order by link ID at least ?

  They are links to my older posts, I tries the recent posts widget but I can only display 15 links with it, and I need much more.

  Where would I put the .dots. ?

  http://peopleconstitution.wordpress.com/

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 23, 2009 at 9:13 pm

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  As mentioned in previous replies, links are ordered alphabetically, and you can only sidestep that if you use a text widget instead of the links widget.

  You can select “view source” in your browser and copy your whole blogroll. It’s the part that starts with this:
  <ul class='snap_preview xoxo blogroll'>
  and ends with this:
  </ul>
  Paste it in a text widget, then copy-paste to rearrange the links any way you like.

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  sisypheha · Member · Aug 23, 2009 at 11:16 pm

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  thanks a lot

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  ilrosewood · Member · Aug 29, 2009 at 5:47 am

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  Have you tried this plugin:
  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-link-order/

  ?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 29, 2009 at 1:35 pm

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  WordPress.com blogs can not use plugins.

  wp.COM is different from wp.ORG.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1