ColdForged

The %category% permalink tag has trouble in environments with greedy parsing of regular expressions. You can see a possible solution on Ryan’s site.

There’s no way to specify to exclude a post by post ID in The Loop. That said, is there any reason you can just skip over it in your Loop processing? In other words:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
if( $post->ID == $that_post_I_hate )
continue;
// Do stuff like format each post etc
endwhile;

Looks perfectly understandable to me, Flegme, nice work.

No worries, come back when they get your database setup.

There’s our issue. You need a MySQL database set up by whoever administers that university server. They need to set it up, then give you a name of the database, the server that it’s on, the username for the database and the password. You then fill that information into the wp-config.php file. Then you can start installing WordPress.

What still doesn’t work? That link is not your login link, it’s a representative example.

No. The username and password that you put into the wp-config.php file are the appropriate ones for your database. The username and password to login to your WordPress installation are generally “admin” and a randomly generated one that is provided to you upon installation.