I’m also looking after my Club’s site, and have loaded Alex King’s CategoryOverload plugin.
This is cool, as it lets you build a hierarchy of link categories.

I’ve written a custom SQL routine – which I’ve included in one of our pages – to use this for output, by cycling through the different sub-categories of a parent (other links aren’t output).
This works with WordPress 2.1.3.
Feel free to adapt it.

Here’s the skeleton code, for a “parent” category with an ID of 12.
Note that Php commands have an extra space inserted after the “< " to prevent accidental execution. This first bit builds a array of sub-categories :- [code lang="php"] get_results($querystr, OBJECT); ?> [/code]

… Then this part loops through each subcategory and outputs it.
(you may want to put some formatting in …)

[code lang=”php”]
< ?php if ($linkcats): ?>
< ?php foreach ($linkcats as $linkcat): ?>
< ?php echo $linkcat->cat_name ; ?>
< ?php get_links( $linkcat->cat_id, ”, ”, ”, TRUE, ‘category’, TRUE, FALSE, -1, FALSE, TRUE); ?>
< ?php endforeach; ?>
< ?php endif; ?>
[/code]

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