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1. 

   theorib
   Member

   Hi all,

   I'm still not comfortable with PHP though I manage myself well with XHTML and CSS.

   I was wondering if there is a way of showing Link Descriptions on the links.php page template without modifying the defaults on the wordpress bookmark-template.php file itself.

   I don't know how to do it but I would guess there would be a way for modifying the 'show_description' => 0 to 'show_description' => 1 in the functions.php file of my themelet.

   Also, on the links page, I need to output something like this:
   'between' => '<span class="between">|</span>', and $output .= $between . '<span class="link-desc">' . $desc . '</span>';
   Instead of the defaults:
   between' => "\n", and $output .= $between . $desc;

   Can it be done through functions.php?

   Thanks loads in advanced!

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   theorib
   Member

   Ok, I figured out a way to do the first thing (showing the description) by putting a copy of the links.php file in my child theme folder and replacing the:
   <?php wp_list_bookmarks(list_bookmarks_args()) ?>
   by
   <?php wp_list_bookmarks('show_description=1','list_bookmarks_args()') ?>

   Though this works I reckon there must be a much "nicer, cleaner and right" way to do it using something like filter hooks or action hooks in my functions.php file but even though I read Ian's great tutorials on both things I still can't find the way to do it...

   Any help would be much appreciated to learn more about PHP!

   Thanks loads, Thematic is awesome!

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi Theo,

   the one and only advice: Don't touch that Theme! :)

   Ok .. the list_bookmarks_args() filter function was build to hand the needed arguments over to wp_list_bookmarks().

   Create a function that returns the arguments you want to use for wp_list_bookmarks():

   function my_list_bookmarks_args() {
       // the default args
       $content = 'title_before=<h2>&title_after=</h2>';
       $content. = '&show_description=1';
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('list_bookmarks_args', 'my_list_bookmarks_args');

   If you want to leave the default args in there (the above code sample is just to show what's already there), you can shorten the above code:

   function my_list_bookmarks_args($content) {
       $content. = '&show_description=1';
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('list_bookmarks_args', 'my_list_bookmarks_args');

   Chris

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   theorib
   Member

   Chris you are awesome, thanks! That works wonders!

   If someone else looks for this in the future, there was an extra dot that messed-up the code above, the correct one should be:

   function my_list_bookmarks_args() {
       // the default args
       $content = 'title_before=<h2>&title_after=</h2>';
       $content. = '&show_description=1';
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('list_bookmarks_args', 'my_list_bookmarks_args');

   I'll look at how to style the between with the info you gave me!

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   theorib
   Member

   For the record if anyone is interested, here is the final code sniplet I used to solve my initial post proposition, changing the output code and showing description on the links.php page template:

   // Customizes the output on the links.php page template
   function my_list_bookmarks_args() {
       // the default args
       $content = 'title_before=<h2>&title_after=</h2>&show_description=1&between=<span class="between">|</span><span class="link-desc">&after=</span></li>&order=DESC&orderby=id';
       return $content;
   }
   add_filter('list_bookmarks_args', 'my_list_bookmarks_args');

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   JimDandy
   Member

   Can I ask a question 7 months after the last post in this thread? Well, here goes.

   I'm pretty boneheaded when it comes to PHP, although I understand it in theory. Anyway, if I want to pull in named anchors for my link categories on my links page, what do I need to add to the content filter, as above? I've successfully modified the category_before argument to add a named anchor, but have only had success using the id variable (because it's a documented variable, and my comprehension ends there!):

   $content = 'category_before=<li id="%id" class="%class"><a name="%id"></a>&...

   So my question is how could I change that named anchor to pull in the category name, if I wanted to do that. I don't know if I'll actually go that route, since the name could include spaces, and I'd probably need to do a reg_exp filter on it to make it usable as a tag parameter, but I figure I should try to learn something in the process. Thanks.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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