For a no-nonsense way to set the order of your Blogroll links within Wordpress, place a numeric value in either the description or notes field then set up the wp_list_bookmarks function to order by that value. Make sure numbers that are < 10 are put in as two digits (01, 02, 03). This is not ideal, but it is quick and easy...and it works.

Once you added in the links to the Blogroll admin, use the following function: wp_list_bookmarks to display your links on your site. The following example will list all links and order them by the value in the description field. The output will not have "blogroll" nor the link category headings. For more information, check out the wp_list_bookmarks documentation.

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SDAC Inc. provided:

• XHTML/CSS programming
• bbPress theme customization
• WordPress CMS setup and configuration

technologies used:

XHTML, CSS, bbPress

front end:

The client approached me with a basic design already in place that he wanted to turn into a bbPress theme. I used the existing code and modified it a bit to work with bbPress so that the forum section of the site did not stand out so much as being completely different.

back end:

This project uses bbPress which is very similar to working with WordPress so editing theme files and adding plugins were easily done.

lessons learned/random thoughts:

bbPress themes have several files, but is still much nicer to customize than phpBB - in my opinion

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