I saw an interesting comment from Andy Skelton over here:
“Hey there! Nice work on this plugin/widget code. However, it won’t work on future versions of WordPress because you’ve queried a table that will no longer be available. Links are tricky business these days…
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Interesting. The widget I just wrote also queries the database table directly. The API doesn’t allow for much manipulation of the links, as it has anchor tags hard-coded in (not viable for use in a drop down list).
I’m wondering if there is a reference online for how newer versions will change in regards to this? I’m assuming he’s referring to WP 2.1.
It would also be nice if the API allowed for a way to use the data like I am, without needing to re-implement the functions to format them appropriately. get_archives() was designed intelligently for this type of use. Unfortunately get_links() and list_cats() are not.
The thing to do now, actually, is run a test blog using the latest builds (svn or nightlies) and join the wp-hackers and wp-testers mailing lists. There is not any documentation for 2.1 yet, so if you want to future-proof your code you’ll have to keep up with core development.
yeah, his response was certainly cryptic.
i guess the thing to do now is submit API bugs for any functions with hard-coded formatting. =/
Left by adam on June 5th, 2006