Multiple Link Widgets?
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to include multiple instances of the Links widget in your sidebar, each displaying a different set of link categories? What I’d like to do is have a small list of links (my other sites) displayed prominently at the top of the sidebar, and a longer list (resources, stuff I like, “blogroll”) farther down, where it’s unobtrusive. It seems like this would be a pretty intuitive function for the link widget, but it doesn’t seem to be there. Obviously you can just do it with text widgets, but I’m hoping there’s a “proper” way to pull it off that I’m just overlooking.
Thanks!
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No, but you can get the same effect by categorizing your links. The links widget will then separate your links by category into sections with the links category as a heading for each section.
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True, but what I really want is to have stuff in between them, with a sidebar that looks like this:
Links (my other sites)
Twitter
Categories
Flickr stream
Links (everything else)Having a long list of links on top drives all the other widgets waaay down the page.
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You’re welcome, but I wouldn’t suspect this feature is high up on Automattic’s list of future features.
Once you get them coded, it won’t take much to keep up with additions.
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Yeah, no real complaints here, I’m mostly… mourning the elegance of a multi-function link widget. It seems like, given all the effort WordPress puts into link categorization, you’d be able to do more with it in terms of design functionality.
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They gave us multiple categories widgets but no matter how many you put into your sidebar, they all show the exact same thing. This doesn’t make me any too confident that multiple links widgets would work any better.
;-)
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