Edward Caissie

@rahma – Unfortunately I do not generally test for any browser prior to the most current (especially in the case of IE) but from what I am seeing the “white box” may be another plugin that is possibly conflicting … WP_FB_Like_Button. Have you tried looking at the site in IE8 with that plugin deactivated? Also, you appear to be using another plugin that does basically the same thing, generally you only need one.

As to the issue with the other plugin, I would suggest reporting that issue to the plugin author; and, if you find the above “white box” issue resolves when deactivating the “like” plugin you should also let that plugin author know.

I would be more than happy to work with them if there is a specific Theme/plugin conflict to resolve, please feel free to pass that along if you do find the plugins are the root cause.

… and thanks for the compliments, it seems Desk Mess Mirrored reminds a lot of people of their desktops. 🙂

You might consider widgetizing an area within the content of the page and then using a text widget or some other widget to include “static” text within that area.

The best feedback for a theme is almost always with the Theme author; at least in my case I much prefer to have end-users send their issues directly to myself or post a comment on the appropriate page at http://buynowshop.com as I may not always notice these posts in a timely fashion.

… or, drop me a note with a link to the post in these forums is also very helpful for others to benefit from.

As it is, I will add this issue to the Theme’s TO-DO list as I do recognize the background image is very large and can be slow loading in many situations.

No worries … it was just a suggestion to share the code itself. A fresh set of eyes may have the issue just pop off the screen.

Category templates work by default when you choose the specific category.

If you have a category called “featured” and you want those posts to be shown differently than when you look at other category posts via the archive template then you would create the category-featured.php template and let it do its thing.

To accomplish the same thing on a “page” would typically require writing the code as a page-template.

Try this (un-tested) as the basis for your page template:

get_header();
get_template_part( 'category', 'featured' );
set_sidebar();
get_footer();

Have you tried setting your plugin version number to something very high such as 9999?