Bonnie
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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Burbling.netThank you! 🙂
I made a category called Layout History, and then for each layout, I created a new post in that category with the name of the site and version as the title, and a description of the site as the post content. I then created a screencap and thumbnail with the same name as the post slug (i.e. for the title Burbling.net v2, the post slug was burblingnet-v2, so I had burblingnet-v2_tn.jpg and burblingnet-v2.jpg) and put those in a separate folder. I then made a new template for the category (by installing the Post Templates by Category plugin) and called up all the individual posts in that category like this:
<?php $posts = query_posts($query_string . ‘&orderby=date&order=desc&posts_per_page=-1’); ?>
<p class=’center’>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<x href='<?php the_permalink(); ?>’><img id=’post-<?php the_ID(); ?>’ class=’border’ src='<?php echo bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/images/site/layout-history/<?php echo $post->post_name; ?>_tn.jpg’ width=’150′ height=’82’ alt='<?php the_title(); ?>’ title='<?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> – <?php the_title(); ?>’ /></x>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
(Where x = a; it didn’t like the a href, for some reason!)
Hope that helps! 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page slug template tag?I was searching the forums for “post slug” instead of “page slug”. Oops. Found my answer:
<?php echo $post->post_name; ?>
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesUnfortunately, Ian, I can’t seem to get any tags to work in that way without putting them inside their own PHP tags. 🙁 It’s a shame because that’d be very convenient!
Minna – You’re an absolute star. That works. 🙂 Thank you so much!
Thank you Ian and Minna for all your help. 🙂 Now I can finally get on with modifying this script!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesSame problem with ‘print’. Hmm. I think I may just have to re-shuffle my site structure a bit and try to get away with using relative links after all. Thanks for the help, though, Minna and Ian. It’s much appreciated!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesHi Ian –
I don’t think so, because I need to use this same header for all my pages and some of them are in different folders. 🙁
Hmmmm.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesThanks for the suggestion, Minna.
Unfortunately, both of those seem to print out the following:
http://www.burbling.net/wordpress/<img src=”/images/nav_.png” width=”120″ height=”30″ alt=”” />
It echoes the value of blog(‘url’) before starting the IMG tag. I’m not really sure why though! I tried moving things around but to no avail. *feels a bit stupid*
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesYes, I’ve read the usage instructions and I can get the plugin working fine. However, I am trying to use a tag *within* PHP, so enclosing it in <?php … ?> tags won’t work. Similarly, just using it on its own (without the PHP tags) doesn’t work either.
This applies to templates as well, not just pages and posts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using template tags within PHP pagesHi and thanks for the reply. 🙂
It’s a plugin that basically allows you to treat pages and posts like regular PHP pages, providing you use the correct <?php … ?> syntax. It doesn’t require any special syntax (such as the suggested <phpcode> tag). It’s the RunPHP plugin. I’m using it within WP pages (not external pages).
Basically, what I need to know is how to write the variable bloginfo(‘url’) without enclosing it in its own <?php … ?> tags. Not just in my plugin-ified pages, but in templates, too. So, for example, if I wanted to include some PHP in my header template (which I do, also) I would use something like this:
<?php echo “<img src=\”bloginfo(‘url’)/images/nav_{$nav_id}.png\” width=\”120\” height=\”30\” alt=\”$nav_title\” />”; ?>
… where bloginfo(‘url’) is the variable for bringing up the URL to my WP installation, and $nav_id and $nav_title are my own pre-defined variables (which do work). Unfortunately, the script seems to break if I “leave” PHP to display the images, so I’d like to know how to echo the variable without its <?php … ?> tags. Simply using bloginfo(‘url’) doesn’t work; it just prints out “bloginfo(‘url’)” rather than the variable’s value.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Exporting between WP buildsI did upgrade(see above) but it didn’t change the structure of the database; I assume it doesn’t matter to the script which order the fields are in. HOWEVER, I think I’ve actually figured it out for myself after all that. Always the case.
Just in case anyone else is having the same problem: checking the “Complete inserts” box in phpMyAdmin before taking the data dump seems to include the field names in the dump. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. Sorry!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Clean Archives v1.0I got this plugin working in no time at all and it works perfectly. 🙂 I’m just having one small problem with it, though. I use WordPress to manage not just my blog, but also some other types of writing in separate categories, and I exclude those categories from my index file, search engine, etc. but I can’t seem to exclude them from the Clean Archives list of posts.
Is there any way to do this? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Category descriptions?Does anyone else have any ideas? Or is this function not yet supported…?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Category descriptions?Yes, I’ve tried that one – I didn’t get an error on the main category pages like with other tags, it just didn’t display anything.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Date header for every post“How do I make the date appear on each post, instead of only on the most recent post of the each day?”
http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WordPress%20Tips
I think that’s what you’re looking for. 🙂Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving comment notifications*Hits head* I’m so stupid! I had my email address under ‘admin_email’ but not in my actual profile. In fact I didn’t even spot the ‘My Profile’ option. I feel very silly now. 🙂 But thanks, I needed that pointer!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Simple master archive?Thanks so much! 🙂 I’m trying it out now, fingers crossed that it’ll work. I appreciate your help. 🙂