ColdForged

A very bad solution is to use the_content instead of the_excerpt in your archive template…

That’s the second time today you’ve referred to it as a “bad solution.” There’s nothing wrong with it at all. If you choose to display your excerpt instead of the complete content in your archives, more power to you. It’s a choice. But don’t try to paint it as something defined in holy writ that must be adhered to.

See this.

Thanks, I’m sure mine is the site you’re thinking of since it is obviously a thing of beauty which is admired by all :). Oh, I kill me.

Well, your templates will be different from the resultant HTML generated by WordPress. The templates tell WordPress how to generate the look of your site, so those templates are filled with PHP that won’t show up in the eventual HTML if you view source.

Your calendar will typically be in the sidebar.php file. However, if the person who created your CSS told you to modify how the calendar is created that will be tricky… the calendar — if it’s a typical WP calendar — is generated dynamically inside a function. It’s not static HTML.

I doubt blogger users have to put up with this very awkward workaround or memorizing html syntax.

No, they don’t, they have a WYSIWYG interface instead of raw HTML in their publish page. But then, if that’s your desire you’re more than welcome to use one of the many WYSIWYG plugins for WordPress.

Joe, without a link or a theme it’s tough to answer definitively, but I’ll give it a general guess: edit your theme’s search.php file and change the line that says the_content() to be the_excerpt().

You will likely need to create some mod_rewrite rules to silently redirect each of those legacy directories to your new permalink format. Something like the following in .htaccess above your WordPress rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^articles/?$ /wordpress/$1 [QSA]

try:

ALTER TABLE wp_posts AUTO_INCREMENT = 29

truelight, that’s actually entirely valid XHTML. Since there’s no closing </img> tag, the included closing slash is in the initial tag. The only problem comes when you incorrectly don’t put quotes in around your source.