Can I do this ?

The question of how to do something is different from the question as to whether it can be done. Might I respectfully suggest that you get started straight away with a WP install.Then make a list of what you want. Then start the research. Then start posting here with a url. Ideally with one question per post and a good clear question title. If you follow these basic guidelines it is almost guaranteed you will receive almost unlimited, high quality tech support from guys who know.
That support will consist of referrals to other references where appropriate. But it is much easier to deal with a specific question about a live install, than to answer in general terms. Good luck.

jonimueller — ah, but ve have vays of making it verk! It is possible to change the css that is loaded based upon the category being viewed.
And it isn’t all the difficult. In order for it to work, you will need to know the category ID number (which can be found from the “Categories” page in the admin area.
Open index.php. Find the line that looks like this:
@import url( <?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-style/book/style.css);
change it to:

@import url( <?php
if ($cat == "XXX") {
echo "path and file to alternate CSS";
}else{
echo get_settings('siteurl');
}
?>/wp-layout.css);

Be sure to change XXX to the number of the cat you want to have a different look for.
TG

Techgnome – that’s EXACTLY what I’m looking for! I’ve got one main blog and 7 sub-blogs off it – the sub-blogs are like categories. One for recipes, one for riddles, one for hacks and code bits, one for NaNoWriMo, etc. I have each of these set up as separate blogs in MT because that was the only way I knew to make the sites look completely different from my main site. (They used to look different – they don’t look different now because I quit reinstalling MT 3.0 right in the middle this past weekend and switched to WP. Smartest thing I ever did.)
I read on here somewhere I can exclude certain cats from appearing on the main page, and so combined with the separate style sheets for each cat, that makes the multiple blog option I was looking for. And it makes it way easier than MT because even though you could access all your blogs from one main page, it’s still a completely separate interface in order to post to each one. If I wanted to post to my main site I’d have to go in there and do it, and then if I wanted to post a recipe I’d have to go up out of the main blog and down into the recipe blog. Tedious.
I’ve got a couple questions:
1. With your code above and the if-else statement, I’m assuming I can extend that and make as many different stylesheets for as many different categories as I want? I can go if—else if—else if—else, right?
2. Is there a way, with the levels of access for my users, to set it up so like User#3 can only post to Category#1?
3. Is there a way to set up the category page so that it would only show like the last 5 entries to that category? And then have the full listing of everything in that category somewhere else? Either that or I guess paginate would work for that also.
Man, this is awesome. 🙂
-Iki

Well it certainly is awesome and the support some of the php guys here dish out is unbelieveable. Even I am beginning to understand it. 😉

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