Now you might think that wading through lines of code is something nerds like me do in my sleep, but you would be overlooking two minor points:
1 – I know nothing about wordpress, and
2 – I know nothing about PhP, the code it’s written in.

Despite this, I actually managed to find two bugs in the source code, which is probably a no-brainer, but of which I’m unreasonably proud. Probably because of the amount of time it took me!

So I’m putting it here so when some poor sap installs WordPress 2.2 (or a new theme later when still on 2.2) and goes searching for why his blog is broken, he might just find this post and it’ll help.

found bug 1
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php

line 331
'category_orderby' => 'name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
needs to be changed to
'category_orderby' => 'cat_name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
that resolves the problem of themes which call the bookmarks function such as
php wp_list_bookmarks();

found bug 2
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php
line 293
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'name', $limit = -1) {

needs to be changed to
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'cat_name', $limit = -1) {

that resolves the problem of themes which call the categories function such as
php wp_list_categories();

Mind you I also find ‘name’ instead of ‘cat_name’ issues in links.php(line526) and template_functions_category.php(line122) and category.php(line22) but it’s possible those are NOT bugs; changing them didn’t do anything for me, but if I run into more similar bugs I’ll know where to look.