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1. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Hi, I tried to use the show one category on the index page hack. I copied the data directly from the wiki page, but I'm getting an error. This is my first attempted hack. Help?
   http://www.moltenwords.net
   Here's the error i got:
   Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/moltenwo/public_html/my-hacks.php on line 3
   Parse error: parse error in /home/moltenwo/public_html/my-hacks.php on line 3

2. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #

   if ('/' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
   is the hack.
   Is yours the wrong way round ?

3. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   No, I copied and pasted it directly from the wiki.

4. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I don't use this hack, but I'd try using a / instead ? Just to see what happens ?
   (I know it sounds daft, but comparing error messages sometimes helps ?)

5. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #

   oops. I meant \

6. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Thanks, I'll try that as soon as my server starts working again. grr...

7. oriecat
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Well I don't know what the deal was, but I erased the '/' and retyped it and now it works. Frickin' computers!

8. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Excellent :)

9. skippy
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I tried creating a my-hacks.php with the code as listed in the Wiki. After enabling hacks in my WP options, my blog disappears -- a totally blank page. If I disable hacks in WP options, the blog comes back.
   I also tried several permutations on this, as found here:
   http://wordpress.org/support/3/2954
   When I try this, I _only_ get the category I define in my-hacks.php. Worse still is that index.php?c=7 (a non-front-page category) shows the latest post in the general category!
   I tried putting the if clause into my index.php instead of in my-hacks.php, but that doesn't work _either_.
   Pointers are greatly appreciated.

10. redneck
    Member
    Posted 8 years ago #

    I tried the code in the Wiki, but it didn't do anything for me.
    So I replaced it with this:
    // This bit forces the default category to be category 1
if (!isset($cat) && !isset($p))
$cat = 1;
if (isset($s))
$cat = ''; // so searches work on all categories
    This works, except the archive is screwed up (only archive that is visible is the current category). I haven't started working on that bug yet...

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