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Categorising the WordPress blogroll

I haven’t got many links on this site’s blogroll as I don’t really make use of it myself. I’d rather just bookmark sites with my browser and surf that way.

However, I’m currently setting up a second blog which is to feature an extensive blogroll and I was unhappy by the way WordPress organised the links by default.

The code that governed how my blogroll was organised was this:
WordPress blogroll code

That code resulted in my blogroll looking like this:
WordPress blogroll get_links
I didn’t want my blogroll looking like that.

For one thing, I have my links categorised so I would like to see the categories on the blogroll and have the links listed under the associated categories.

I also thought it wasn’t necessary to display the description like that since the reader would see the link description as a tooltip when the cursor is hovered over the link.

After reading up a bit, I finally got what I wanted by replacing the above code with this:

< ?php wp_list_bookmarks('show_description=0'); ?>

This resulted in the blogroll looking like this:
WordPress blogroll categorised
That’s much better.

Posted in Software, WordPress.


Guild Wars links

NCSoft at London Film and Comic Con 2007.
I especially enjoyed the sequence showing Mike Collins drawing the Assassin. (Related.)

Danke, ArenaNet.
Kleinermann123’s fanvideo, set to Louie Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” showcases the beautiful environs in the game.

Guildcast episode 82 released.
Apparently the direct link to the 50MB MP3 is so supersecret, Shawn didn’t want to give it away. The direct link is up now.

Posted in Guild Wars, Web.


Elsewhere on the web

Life in a game. [via]
Outstanding.

Spider-Man spins his web.
Mary Jane must be out of town.

Goldfish earrings.
Seen in Harajuku.

Posted in Web.


Guild Wars links

Sign you play too much.
I have a strong suspicion ArenaNet can’t fix that drop rate.

DPS high scores.
The Master of Damage NPC calculates damage inflicted by the player per second. The high score seems to be an astounding 840.

Tips and links for the new player.

Posted in Guild Wars, Web.


Opera: Wikipedia search

One of Firefox’s nicer features is the ease with which users can look up Wikipedia, IMDB or Amazon with the Firefox Search Bar. Adding a custom search engine takes only a few mouse clicks.

Opera has a similar feature but you need to do a little extra work. Angsuman Chakraborty has instructions for adding a custom search engine to Opera. For specific instructions on how to add Wikipedia as a custom search engine, you can check out Wikipedia itself.

After doing that, I now have the ability to search Wikipedia directly from Opera’s address bar.

Posted in Opera, Software.