Is there a Wordpress widget that will automatically sort the links in my sidebar by date?

July 28, 2009 5:46 AM

Is there a Wordpress widget that will automatically sort the links in my sidebar by date? If not, how would I code one?

Basically, I'm looking to duplicate the Waxy Links sidebar in a Wordpress theme. I'm currently building a theme in Wordpress 2.8, and the Links widget does about 80% of what I want. (Yes, I have asked this on the Wordpress forum, but the question was competing with the other 8 million questions and have recieved no feedback.)

However, what I'd really like is the following workflow:

1. I add a new link with the links widget (or alternative) and publish.
2. The link shows up in the sidebar under a header with the date. Any additional links posted that day would also show up here.
3. For bonus points, it would be nice if there were some auto-cutoff, so after 25 posted links or so, the oldest links would disappear as the new ones were added

I'm reasonably code savvy, so no fear of php, css, etc. I'm just hoping there's a canned solution that's easy to implement.

posted by jeremias to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

I haven't tried it, but check this out. I suspect that coding your own widget would be pretty simple as well.
posted by adamrice at 7:21 AM on July 28, 2009