Update : Aaron Brazell of Wordpress fame has addressed this question over on his Technosailor blog. You can find his thoughts here.

In Wordpress 2.0.x there was a simple facility to bulk change the link categories for numbers of links. Unless I’m mistaken, that appears to have been dropped from 2.1.x.

I’ve just imported 52 links to what’s now called the Blogroll (it used to be “Links”) and have had to add the link category individually to each one. To say that’s time-consuming is an understatement, especially if you have lots of sites to do.

In earlier versions of WP, you could set the link category default then import links, using AdminMySQL on the server, and they would automatically slot into the default.

In 2.0.x, this didn’t happen, but you could switch the whole lot to the same category with a couple of clicks.

Now, even that’s disappeared, and a pre-industrial, “by hand” method is all that’s left.

Am I missing something here? Anyone know?