chadrew

Regarding your first question – you should use a meta description tag, at least on your homepage. I explained how to do it in this topic:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-meta-description-of-my-site

For example, this code shows your blog description (from your admin panel) as meta description, on your blog homepage only – since we don’t want every page to have the same description, right?

<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' ); ?>" />
<?php } ?>

This isn’t working on yours because you have <div class="post"> and no post ID in there. You could edit your – page template, was it? – and put this in there <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>> then style in your CSS as you described.

Edit your style.css, change

#content {
	float: left;
	width:720px;
	overflow: hidden;
	margin:20px;
	}

to

#content {
	margin:20px;
	}

<a href="<?php echo admin_url('post-new.php');?>">Apples</a>

Looks like it’s mostly Youtube embed code not being HTML5-compliant or whatever. I wouldn’t worry about it. Sorry I can’t help with the IE problem though. Everything looks the same to me on FF6 and IE9.

You sure it isn’t just text zoom? Press CTRL+0 or set the zoom to 100% via options.

So you want a sort of expandable post list. I think you could get post lists for all your categories in the sidebar first, then hide them using CSS (display: none;). And then use a simple JavaScript toggle which happens when you click a category link, to “unhide” them.

Makes sense? But don’t ask me to actually write it all since I haven’t done anything like this before 🙂

Edit: there are lots of toggle code examples online, like this:

http://circlecube.com/2007/11/javascript-code-to-show-a-hidden-element/

Great. I realized afterwards that limit() might be used in other places on your theme, which need special chars converted (like meta description or whatever). I suppose a safer way would be leaving limit() intact, and creating an identical function without the offending line (call it limit2 or whatever).

Then instead of <p><?php echo limit(150, $excerpt); ?></p> you would use <p><?php echo limit2(150, $excerpt); ?></p>, while other areas of your theme will still use the original with its special char conversion.

Try removing the $var = htmlspecialchars($var); line.