can you paste the full code of that template?
of what template page? it’s just the standard TwentyTen theme with some CSS edits.
from reading your question:
in the page, I have the following php code (http://pastebin.com/bSDMGEx1) which should pull in the 5 most recent posts, plus, it should an “Older Entries” link at the bottom to early entries.
i was assuming you were working with a page template, as in http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
it is difficult to check what might not be working from just a few lines which are only a small part of the code.
no, i’m not using any sort of page template. it’s just a regular ol’ wordpress page. however, i forgot to mention that i PHP Execution plugin at work here which allows me to place PHP inside a normal page and have it work: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-execution-plugin/
please advise.
well NOW i am using a custom page template, as per instructions someone gave me on another forum. i created a template called page-store-news.php which contains this code: http://pastebin.com/90mWaFH4
Then inside of the Store News page editor, I have this:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') :1;
query_posts( array (
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'cat' => '1',
'paged' => $paged,
));
get_the_date();
previous_posts_link('« Older Entries', 5);
?>
still though, I’d like to get the Post Date to appear right below each post title. How do I do that?
when you are using a page tempalte, the content from the page editor will usually be irrellevant, and will not be shown;
to add the date below the post title, you would need to edit loop.php (which is called by the page template) and add the_date() there.
if loop.php is used in other parts of your site (without the date), you might need to create a new loop-new.php (as a copy of loop.php) and add the date there; also you need to change this line (27) in your page template to:
get_template_part( 'loop', 'new' );
oy yoy yoy.
is there a simpler way (not custom page templates) to accomplish what I originally set out to do?
i used to be able to just paste php code in the page editor, but apparently after one of the recent WP upgrades, that trick no longer works.
