DickMo777

My face is red. I should have noticed that the instructions for the plug-in “another_wordpress_meta_plugin” explains that the individual post-by-post meta tags don’t appear on the main page. So … never mind. Resolved.

Thanks, moshu. I’m embarrassed that I spent hours trying to solve that problem and somehow missed such an easy solution. I assume I have now ensured only one post on the home page, but still need to do the same on archive pages. Specifying wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost’) on my new template for the achive index page only affects the index list, I assume, and doesn’t ensure that each archived post will be printed on a separate page. I still haven’t figured that one out.

Dick

Thanks, Kafkaesqui. But I’m still not there.

As you suggested, I have uploaded a modification to the original archives.php template, called archives_list.php, which replaces type=monthly with type=postbypost in the wp_get_archives statement, by following instructions in the Codex document Creating_Your_Own_Page_Template. I also created a new page, Archive Index, by following instructions in the Codex document Creating_an_Archive_Index. (Those instructions were for WP1.5, and maybe that’s a problem, but I’m using the default 1.5 theme, if that matters.) But the resulting Archive Index page shows nothing except the title of the page. Of course, I don’t yet have any archives, because I’ve just posted one post so far. I’m considering adding a couple of temporary short test posts to test it out.

I still haven’t figured out how to avoid having more than a single post on the home page as well as on each archive page. That’s important since each weekly essay will be about 2000 words, and putting several on a page would make the page very long. Presumably, I need to modify the parameters of a get_post or wp-get-post statement, but I can’t find one on any template or on the Index page. Where would it be? Or is my presumption wrong as to the approach?

Again, the URL is moralorigins.com. This is my first blog, and any help would be welcome.

Dick

Oops. I did neither. Using my file upload application (the only tool I knew of that would tell me where a file was), I found the folder where the picture had been placed by WordPress, and then inserted the src img … code into the html directly on the manage:page screen. I didn’t know about clicking the picture because I hadn’t found the codex “Using Image and File Attachments,” and there was no guidance anywhere else. I had studied both “Using Images” and “Wrapping Text Around Images,” but neither one, surprisingly, gave any useful information on either uploading images or inserting them onto a page. So I figured it out myself, and got it wrong. Your comment about clicking on the picture turned the light on for me, Handysolo.

Thank God you folks are available. Am I the only user who has found the codex instructions woefully lacking? How could anyone write an instrutional document on “Using Images” and not even mention how to place an image on a page?

Anyway, thanks very much for your help. It saved me from going to bed angry.

Dick

OK. I have it, now. Moshu, I am still reluctant to dive into full footnote capability yet, but I probably will later. for now I’ll be happy with suitable formatting and no links.

vkarly, I finally realized that you evidently thought I was talking about formatting the footnotes themselves. I meant just the little numbers that appear in the text as references to footnotes. I want them reduced in font size and raised. I found reference to vertical-align:super, which raises the character, and also discovered that it was apparently the use of “div” that unfortunately set each number off as a separate paragraph, so I replaced it with “span.” Now it works. I am using:

.smallsuper {
vertical-align: super;
font-size: 70%;
}

Thanks for leading me into the right file and the right research, vkaryl. And thanks, too, moshu, for a solution I will probably move to after I get my feet a little wetter.