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I have a similar problem and the solution identified in the link doesn’t work for me because I don’t have any reference to

the_category()

in my theme.

I’ve set up my permalinks structure as follows:

/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

which I suppose is fine, but:

1. I can only use my categories pull-down menu on my main page in order to correctly go to a category (example: http://magazine.interracialweb.com/index.php ) and

2. Get a 404 not found error when I try to use the pull down menu for my blog categories everywhere else (example: http://magazine.interracialweb.com/index.php/2005/12/05/beautiful-multicultural-babies-cookies/ ).

The pull down menu code I’m using is directly from the codex:

<form action=”<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>” method=”get”>
<p style=”padding: 0px; margin: 0px;”><?php dropdown_cats(); ?>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Go” />
</form>

What do I need to do to fix this?

Is it even possible to display a products page versus the template sidebar? Can this or any other amazon related plugin be put on a page (using pages)?

This concept is greatly appreciated, however, how does someone even download one of the themes presented in the theme viewer? Every theme source I click on doesn’t seem to have a download link — it just takes them to their blog and most recent posts and if I do find a link to download their theme (which hasn’t happened yet — must be buried in their sites), it will be a miracle. Some guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.. It’s not quite working yet. I’ve removed the amazon items because I still haven’t solved the issue with it running off the right column.

Just sent you a message… Thanks for your help on this.

Okay…..did what you suggested and it makes sense but I must be missing something here. I’ve added to your theme’s stylesheet the following (because the first line of the above code didn’t seem to work and I figure the div name and the section in the stylesheet need to be the same):

#amaz a
{
display: block;
padding: 3px;
padding-left: 17px;
width: 130px;
text-align: left;
background-color: #FFF;
}

and in the sidebar I added a new div outside of the nav div, but inside the menu div:

<div id=”amaz”>

<?php show_amazon_items(3); ?>
</div>

….and I’m obviously screwing something up because now the sidebar display looks worse (it’s still all the way over to the right even though I played with the CSS code Root provided above). The bullet items are gone (which was half the battle) so now it’s just a matter of getting it to format to the left. Honestly, I take pics and am barely good at that — CSS is not my expertise. What “specifically” do I need the code to be?

Thanks for your help.