More than one blogroll
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I was wondering if it is possible to have more than one blogroll. I have looked and don’t see a way to set it up — unless I am just missing it. For instance, I’d love to have one blogroll for for everything, but I would love to separate the craft blogs out for a additional separate craft blogroll.
I do have a separate “family-friendly” blogroll only because WordPress doesn’t allow the javascript to the the collapseable blogroll link, and I could only be added to that blogroll if I had the their blogroll listed on my site. That blogroll owner gave me instructions about how to import the blogroll into the separate “family-friendly” blogroll. But I have forgotten how to do it, and since it was imported it would probably be different than my trying to set up one from within my own blog.
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Why not just use seperate categories? One for your family friendly links and the additional category for the others.
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I do have a separate list of categories and a list of blogroll links — or are you talking about categories within a blogroll?
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You have categories within your blog. You assign posts into categories. You can also assign links into these categories as well. Your current link is assigned to the blogroll category currently. Nothing stopping you from creating a new category labeled ‘Family Friendly Links’ and assigning those links to that category.
The only issue to watch out for is that any category has to have a post to have thte links appear. To get around that, just make a post saying “Hey, I added some links. Please feel free to check them out” and assign the category with those new links to that post.
hope this helps,
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I think maybe we are miscommunicating. I do have categories in my blog, but I was wondering if one could make separate category blogrolls. I have seen on non-wordpress blogs that some bloggers have separate blogrolls for, for instance, a crafts blogroll, a mom blogroll, a political issues blogroll, etc., in their sidebar, so that the one general blogroll isn’t way long and so that readers can easily find and click on blogs in a certain category that they might be interested in. But a solution just came to me last night: what I can do is put in a separate text widget, title it whatever blogroll I want, and put links to the blogs I read under that category in it.
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Yes, that is exactly what Dr Mike means. It’s easier to do when you put them in the blogroll to tag them, rather than to design your own widget, although the DIY route does allow you to separate them into groups for display.
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OK, NOW I get it. (Duh!) Sorry for being so dense. But I didn’t see anything about creating categories for blogrolls after clicking on “Blogrolls” in my dashboard until after clicking on the “Add links” button today, then I saw the different categories off the the side and the “Add” feature. Now I get it.
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For others reading this thread:
All wordpress.com blogs have only one Blogroll located in the Admin area where you enter all the links and assign each one to a Category.The links you enter into your Blogroll are displayed only after the Links widget is placed in your sidebar. Also note that there must be at least one link assigned to a Category before it will appear in your sidebar.
The manner in which the links will then be displayed is alphabetically in accord with the Categories you created and assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.
Therefore it may look like you have multiple Blogrolls when you view your links in your sidebar but in truth you only have one Blogroll, which is separated into alphabetically ordered groups, in accord with the Categories that you assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.
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I’m still not get it, but then I’m extremely new at WordPress (been using Blogger for awhile now, but still not very techie). I get that I can put my links in different categories, but they still all appear as one long list (even if organized by categories in that list) — there’s nothing in the sidebar to separate them into categories so that the reader can quickly see, “These are my family links, these are my writing links, etc etc.” Can someone explain very slowly and carefully, as if to a four-year-old, how it’s possible to separate those categories in a way that’s immediately obvious when you look at the sidebar?
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@trudyj65
The reasons this isn’t working for you is that you do not clearly understand the relationship between blogroll, links and categories. You are not alone. Specifically, you have all of your links assigned to “Links” rather than to individual categories. Also you have no “Categories” assigned to your posts – they are all uncategorized. This can be changed but forgive me for not typing out all the instructions yet again. You see I have done so many times that I finally made two blog posts to explain. Simply click on the links that follow and I think this may help you as well as this. -
This is the part I don’t understand — I do have my links categorized, though not my posts (because I imported them from Blogger, where they weren’t categorized). But as you say, you have explained this already (I did read your links, thanks!) and somehow I’m still not seeing how it works, so I guess I will just keep reading and experimenting till I can make it work.
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If you do have you links categorized and they are still appearing only under the title “Links” then the only other thing I can think of is that the theme you are using is hardcoded to display them as they are now. Have you tried another theme just to see what would happen? (No data or images are lost when we change themes.)
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It’s OK, I’ve got it. It was the part about dragging the “Categories” widget into the sidebar that I’d missed doing. Once I did that all the links appeared in categories … thanks for your help!
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Are multiple category blogrolls possible with hard-coding?
I’ve done some googling (which leads me here) and I can’t find anything coverign the topic.
Otherwise – is it possible to edit widgets to include everything I’ve added to my sidebar (that there isn’t a widget for – like sitemeter, referral items, ads, etc.) ?
Thanks for any help.
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You can’t hard-code if you’ve got a WordPress.com hosted blog. If you don’t have one of those, you need to be at WordPress.org.
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I am having an issue with Blogroll categories.
I am using the Blix theme and there always seems to be problems with this template. :(I have assigned 2 various categories to my links but it doesnt show up in my links widget on my sidebar.
I dont think it is something I am doing wrong, could it be that with the Blix template it doesnt work???Thanks… oh and here is my blog
glamourthis.wordpress.com
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