The Return of the Blogroll
When I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 my blogrolls disappeared.
I called up the team from Without a Trace becuase they seem relatively good at solving missing persons, or in this case missing blogroll cases but for some reason they wouldn’t take my class. Hurumph!
Today when I logged into my Dashboard I noticed an article called WordPress 2.1 Gotchas and clicked to see if this was a common problem that might be listed in the article. Sure enough it was! I tried the fix listed in the article but it messed up everything, the blog would even display but the article gave me another idea to try.
You see WordPress pre-2.1 listed blog categories and link categories separately. When I created the blogrolls I specified which catagory of links I wanted to display. If I understand correctly, with WordPress 2.1 the blogroll categories and the blog categories are listed together. In order to do that WordPress had to renumber my blogroll category ids. In the old blogroll I was calling category with the id 1. In the new WordPress that category id was now 23. So I went back to PHP tags that were working before the upgrade and change the category id from 1 to 23. Their back.
So that is something to be aware of. If you are upgrading to Ella, and you current themes have blogroll tags that specify category ids like I did then you just need to change those id numbers to the new category id numbers.
I hope someone else finds this helpful.
Class dismissed!
January 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Well, I still can’t get my posting to work properly. I don’t have a choice, its all HTML.
I even tried to upgrade to firefox 2 as per your suggestion and that didn’t work either.
January 31st, 2007 at 6:40 am
I believe we have that fixed now.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
OK, I made the jump. The only gripe is that my settings for the categories on the sidebar were lost. I used to have 5 rotating posts to link to (hall of fame) and now all are shown.
To accomplish a shorter sidebar, I’m actually pulling posts from my hall of fame! It’s like taking Bart Starr and telling him that he no longer belongs.
Hmph.
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:20 am
Thanks. Definitely found it useful! I upgraded to 2.1, saw my blogroll disapear, and dulyfixed my theme template with the new category IDs, and it all worked. Cheers!