I've seen a couple of posts about changing sort order and don't mind admitting that I am totally confused. Also, those posts appeared to be geared toward randomizing the sort order, or toward weighting them by number of hits. I really don't want to do either.
The links.def file says:
$db_sort_links = 1;
(with 1 = site title, i.e. alphabetically).
and it appears that the actual (default) sort order in 2.0 is:
1. Popular sites
2. New sites
3. everything else
with each set in alphabetical order.
All I want to change is to NOT have popular sites elevated to the top of the list. I figure a lot of folks will just click those links which will keep them at the top of the list which will prevent other sites from getting much traffic (the same idea as having a first page result from excite or alta vista...those sites always get the most traffic).
How can I change it so that new sites remain on top, but popular sites are just listed alphabetically with the rest of the links? Please keep in mind my general ignorance and be as specific as possible.
On another note, what exactly is the purpose of the 'yes' 'no' selectors for pop and new in the links manager? It doesn't seem to make any difference how they are set because the script overwrites them based on the links.cfg settings.
The links.def file says:
Code:
# Field number to sort links by: $db_sort_links = 1;
(with 1 = site title, i.e. alphabetically).
and it appears that the actual (default) sort order in 2.0 is:
1. Popular sites
2. New sites
3. everything else
with each set in alphabetical order.
All I want to change is to NOT have popular sites elevated to the top of the list. I figure a lot of folks will just click those links which will keep them at the top of the list which will prevent other sites from getting much traffic (the same idea as having a first page result from excite or alta vista...those sites always get the most traffic).
How can I change it so that new sites remain on top, but popular sites are just listed alphabetically with the rest of the links? Please keep in mind my general ignorance and be as specific as possible.
On another note, what exactly is the purpose of the 'yes' 'no' selectors for pop and new in the links manager? It doesn't seem to make any difference how they are set because the script overwrites them based on the links.cfg settings.