wp_get_linksbyname shows all categories

wp_get_linksbyname() has been deprecated. Look to get_bookmarks()

The huge number of themes in the wild will be using deprecated API for some time. I think we should not break those themes. I'll reopen and take a look.

tandilboy, how are you using wp_get_linksbyname()? Can you tell us exactly what arguments your theme is passing to it?

<?php wp_get_linksbyname('Secciones','orderby=rating&before=<li>&after=</li>&show_description=0'); ?>

2.1 cant filter the links by category

i using this code. any case reply me with the new code to update the theme

Replying to tandilboy:

i using the wp_get_linksbyname in diferent instances showed by categories, in 2.1 the wp_get_linksbyname can´t filter categories and shows all links in all instances

It appears that the problem is not in wp_get_linksbyname it's in wp_get_links (bookmark-template.php).

parse_str($args) messes up the first var it's trying to parse in $args because it starts with something like '/?varname=var'. So, in the case where it's trying to look up a category, $category never gets set and will lookup all categories. My temp fix was to strip out everything up to the '?' and it now works as it should.

A quick grep through the code base show lots of parse_str($args) and I would imagine that this problem would also be happening there.

Any reason we're keeping this open? I believe [5444] fixes this.