I haven’t played around with the links menu that much. I prefer to do most of my link menus manually in the index.php template. Here’s a sample of some code for a quick link menu:
- <h2><?php _e('Validation'); ?></h2>
You can go to http://www.macmanx.com to see the resulting output.
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Anonymous
Macmanx: try do that with 700 links =)
Podz: do I need to include it in the templates?
require_once($abspath.’wp-content/links-update-cache.xml’);
Do you know if to show and order by the _updated timestamp, do I need to be using blogrolling?
Thanks =)
I have nothing in the templates apart from normal wp stuff – for the ‘Reading’ cat I have this:
<li id="reading">Reading
<?php wp_get_links(15); ?>
as I display it separately.
And blogrolling ? Nope – just what wp gives you / me.
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Anonymous
I’ve changed my setup and code to match yours but still no changes.
Your list shows the updated items first (you can see the timestamp on mouseover)
and mine doesn’t. No proper order nor timestamp.
links-udpate-cache.xml and link-udpate-cache.xml are 0777 but they are empty. Shouldn’t they be filled with the content of changes.xml?
Is that the file are you retrieving? http://www.weblogs.com/changes.xml ?
I’m out of ideas =(
I’m pretty sure it is, yes, but if you’ve just opted for this, you may need to give wp time to grab the info ?
I’m using Carthik’s plugin on my blog to get this working, if that’s any use to you.
http://carthik.net/wpplugins/updatelinkroll.phps
although looking at it now, all that does is include the links cache file. hmm. Sorry, I’m not much use here I don’t think
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Anonymous
I was paying attention to that and changed the time for 10 minutes and even less and pinged a couple of sites on my list.
Apparently the problem was that weblogs.com/changes.xml as been in and out (at least) for this last few hours (right now is page not found) and changing to http://blo.gs/changes10.xml seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks for your help and patience, Podz =)
Is there any other place to check for changes besides blo.gs xml file?
Holographic: thanks! I’ve installed that also just to be sure =)
I am experiencing update problems as well, on several blogs. I catch some updates, but I know I miss more (blogrolling.com powered blogrolls on other sites, RSS reader). I suppose weblogs.com is acting up, but I don’t know for sure.
A while ago it got even worse: I had the include-line somewhere in index.php (you know, the one that calls the update script). Somehow, my blog wouldn’t load. It’d timeout at some point. Removing the line solved that problem.
I’ll try the blo.gs link to see if that solves problems.
