Links Widget shows erroneous title + is missing an option

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

The current Links widget in WP 2.8 trunk displays the name of the first category, rather than the expected All Links.

The attached patch does two things:

• Adds an extra option that allows to only display links from a specified category
• Sets the title to All Links in the widgets screen when no category is specified

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Can anyone commit this?

I'd really like to stop needing to maintain my link widgets plugin, and mark it as "not useful as of WP 2.8".

It's just gory to scan through the widgets one by one, check if it's a text widget, and then replace the various callbacks as needed. (Using the new method, replacing the widget altogether is probably a better option, too...)

The same holds for text widgets (which also has a tried and tested patch): #5113

[ryan]

(In [10896]) Allowing displaying links from a specific category in the links widget. Props Denis-de-Bernardy. fixes #9449