Blogroll Bug

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  pinkin · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:31 am

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  Have been adding links to several blogroll categories over the last couple days. Today when I do this it posts all the links in in one category…Blogroll, which I don’t have any links in and don’t want it to go there. I have attempted this multiple times and keep getting the same result.

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  pinkin · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:44 am

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  What it is now doing is adding a Category itself called 1356 and placing the new link there.

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  pinkin · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:50 am

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  I ended up setting the category as the default in settings > writing then adding without clicking anything. So that is the work around.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:50 am

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  Go to settings > writing and set the default links category to one that you created making sure to click “save changes” when done.

  Now go to links > links categories and delete the category called “1356.”

  Somehow the standard default links category was deleted and since a new default was not set, wordpress.COM had to create another one. You might now have to edit your links and set the correct categories for them.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:52 am

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  The default links category and the default post category has to be set to a category that exists, or worpdress will create the numbered categories because it cannot create a link in the links widget without a category and you cannot create a post without a category.