changing the order of links in wordpress.com

October 4, 2009 by Erin

Many people have searched the internet for the answer to one question: “How do I change the order of the appearance of my links on my wordpress.com blog?” There are not many easy answers. While you can order them by name, id, rating etc. while editing them in the dashboard, they always appear in alphabetical order on the blog. Here is an html workaround for the problem: First, do not use the links widget in WordPress, instead select a text widget. Then title the text block (for example, “links”). Then copy this code into your text box:

<ul class=’snap_preview xoxo blogroll’>
<li><a href=”http://COPY YOUR LINK HERE”>LINK TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://COPY YOUR LINK HERE”>LINK TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://COPY YOUR LINK HERE”>LINK TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://COPY YOUR LINK HERE”>LINK TITLE</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://COPY YOUR LINK HERE”>LINK TITLE</a></li>
</ul>

Then paste your links where it says COPY YOUR LINK HERE. Remember to leave the quotation marks. You can title the link in the area where it says LINK TITLE. For example, <li><a href=”https://erinashleymiller.com/writing/”>Erin Miller’s Writing</a></li>. Don’t forget to open and close the text with the appropriate tags (<ul class=’snap_preview xoxo blogroll’>, </ul>). You can now change the order of the links by just cutting and pasting the lines of text that contain the links in the order you want them to appear. Good Luck!

Posted in Thoughts | Tagged techy stuff | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on February 19, 2010 at 10:48 am karlos

great solution. i have wasted too much time on this ‘issue’ thanks
- on February 22, 2010 at 1:19 pm Erin
  
  Great. Glad this helped. It was a tricky thing to work around.
on May 14, 2010 at 9:34 am Lee McFatridge

Thanks! I use this as a page order menu as well. Do you know how I could make “subs” of pages using this same type of code?
on May 23, 2010 at 12:27 pm Erin

@Lee, sorry, I don’t know about “subs” of pages. Good luck.
on September 9, 2010 at 10:21 am Back at the Ranch Shop

This just saved me much time, effort and frustration. Thanks!
on November 8, 2010 at 8:21 am Jason

Great job! That’s thinking outside the box. 🙂

I needed to add a “See More Cities…” link at the end of my links list and creating a list within a text widget allowed me to place my “See More Cities…” link at the end of my list while retaining the alphabetical order of the other items within my list.

Thanks again for the simple but effective solution!

Jason
on November 8, 2010 at 9:39 pm Erin

Thanks, all. Glad this is still working out for people. Good luck with your blogs!
on December 17, 2010 at 8:03 pm thetinkeringprimate

Thanks! This was super helpful.
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on January 25, 2012 at 3:40 pm jaclkima

This has been a life-saver. Thanks so much.
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