Organizing links

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  culbreath · Member · Mar 31, 2007 at 8:37 pm

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  I need help organizing my links. I’ve created categories and filed accordingly, but the categories don’t show up on the main page. Also, I can’t even get my links to list alphabetically by name. What’s wrong? Jeff Culbreath, http://culbreath.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2007 at 9:13 pm

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  Hi there,
  Lots of people do have trouble with understanding how to set widgets, blogrolls, links and categories. Frequently what’s needed is a basic understanding of the relationships between them. So many bloggers have trouble that I created a blog post on it. Then there were complaints that I was driving traffic to my little beginner help blog (my primary blog is environmental) because I used the link to the post rather than typing this all out over and over again when the same questions were repeatedly asked on the forum. So I’m posting it here for everyone to use today.

  Understanding blogrolls, links, categories and their relationships

  All wordpress.com blogs have only one Blogroll located in the Admin area where you enter all links and assign each link to one or more Categories.
  => Manage = Blogroll => Add Link

  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.

  Likewise, the Category widget must be placed in the sidebar for posts to display. And just like links when it comes to posts there must be at least one published post in a Category before the Category will be displayed in your sidebar.

  Once your Links widget and Categories widget are positioned in your sidebar, the manner in which the links you entered into your Blogroll will be displayed is alphabetically in accord with the Categories you created and assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.

  Therefore as you will have multiple Categories it may look like you have multiple Blogrolls when you view your links in your sidebar. But in truth, you only have only one Blogroll, which is displays links as separate alphabetically ordered groups, in accord with the Categories that you assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.

  Please see: WordPress Widget Wizardy to learn how to set up and configure your blog’s widgets.

  * Also note that the foregoing does not apply to the Blix theme which is hard-coded to display all links in one alphabetically organized row.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 31, 2007 at 9:26 pm

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  Recently there have been several bloggers who seemed to require backend assistance with category issues. So if the foregoing instructions do not work for you then you should send staff a feedback on Monday.