February 12, 2011 
Definition:
function get_linksbyname($cat_name = "noname", $before = '', $after = '<br />', $between = " ", $show_images = true, $orderby = 'id',
Gets the links associated with category $cat_name.
Parameters
- string $cat_name: Optional. The category name to use. If no match is found uses all.
- string $before: Optional. The html to output before the link.
- string $after: Optional. The html to output after the link.
- string $between: Optional. The html to output between the link/image and it’s description. Not used if no image or $show_images is true.
- bool $show_images: Optional. Whether to show images (if defined).
- string $orderby: Optional. The order to output the links. E.g. ‘id’, ‘name’, ‘url’, ‘description’ or ‘rating’. Or maybe owner. If you start the name with an underscore the order will be reversed. You can also specify ‘rand’ as the order which will return links in a random order.
- bool $show_description: Optional. Whether to show the description if show_images=false/not defined.
- bool $show_rating: Optional. Show rating stars/chars.
- int $limit: Optional. Limit to X entries. If not specified, all entries are shown.
- int $show_updated: Optional. Whether to show last updated timestamp
Source code
function get_linksbyname($cat_name = "noname", $before = '', $after = '<br />', $between = " ", $show_images = true, $orderby = 'id',
$show_description = true, $show_rating = false,
$limit = -1, $show_updated = 0) {
_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.1', 'get_bookmarks()' );
$cat_id = -1;
$cat = get_term_by('name', $cat_name, 'link_category');
if ( $cat )
$cat_id = $cat->term_id;
get_links($cat_id, $before, $after, $between, $show_images, $orderby, $show_description, $show_rating, $limit, $show_updated);
}
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