Now that the web host move is out of my way, I can resume where I left off one week ago: organising the sidebar links.
The default WordPress installation shows on the sidebar several links to wordpress.org pages (documentation, etc.), all under the heading ‘Blogroll’. That is actually a slight misnomer, because a blogroll is a list of other blogs that the author of this blog reads. The WordPress team knows that, but nevertheless chose the term ‘blogroll’ to categorise any links (not just to blogs) that the blog author hasn’t yet classified.
So, if I want to change the ‘Blogroll’ heading into ‘WordPress.org’, I will have to create a new link category with that name and then move all links from the old to the new category. I will also take the opportunity to hide some of the links I don’t care about (like the WordPress developers’ blog).
After logging into the administration panel, I went to Manage > Link Categories subpanel and created a new category named ‘WordPress.org’. I just provided the name, leaving the other information fields empty. Then, in the Manage > Links subpanel, I went through the list of existing links, clicking on each link’s name to edit the link (note that the Codex documentation for the Manage > Links subpanel is slightly outdated). This will open a Write > Link subpanel, with all information for the existing link pre-filled. For those links I wanted to keep, I changed the category from ‘Blogroll’ to ‘WordPress.org’, whereas for those I didn’t want to keep I just made them private, to hide them. I could have removed them, but one never knows if they will become useful later on. After doing all this, the original sidebar‘s Blogroll list became the currently seen list.
My next goal is to get rid of the rather useless Meta section in the sidebar.
[...] Note that the Links widget lists all the links marked as visible in the Manage > Links sub-panel. The widget will automatically create in the sidebar one section per link category. Since I was re-arranging the sidebar, I took the opportunity to add links to my other blogs (I know it’s crazy to start three blogs in parallel…) and put them under the new ‘Alter blegos’ (get it?) link category. Thus, the Links widget now lists both the new and the existing wordpress.org links. [...]