Doodlebee

I do not see how it can be a problem

I suppose for such am small site, it wouldn’t be a problem. but as more stuff is added, it can eventually become one. I guess I’m thinking of “future-proofing” (which I always do) because there may come a time when you’ll want to utilize the site more – and handling that type of thing *now* would be effortless, comparing to the mass 301’s you’d have to put in place later on.

Since this page will have so few posts, I dont want to categorize them and I would prefer to not have “uncategorized” in the permalink.

But again, *because* you will be using posts, you *will* be categorized. The default is “Uncategorized.” if you want a different word to show up, then rename the category. Then just use the %category%/%postname as the custom permalink. (again, adding %year% or %hour% or %postID% would be better in front of that, and it really doesn’t do anything to SEO)

If you add “blog” as the beginning category thing in your settings, then all your posts will show up as “sitename/blog/uncategorized/postname” so to get rid of the “uncategorized” just rename it.

your require statement requires the correct path to wp-blog-header.php. You will also want to make the the FULL SERVER PATH on every page you plan to pull in from WordPress, since outside of WordPress, you’ll be changing directories all the time, and a relative location will pull in the wrong URL.

BTW a server path doesn’t begin with http:// – that’s the URL. You need to find out from your host what the server path is (starts with something like “usr/site/public_html/…”)

If you’re only doing it for one single page (like a welcome page) then you can use the path relative to where that page is. So if your welcome page is at the root, then your path should be ‘./blog/wp-blog-header.php’. However, it would probably just be much simpler to put the WordPress install in the root of your site, and set a Page as the home page. Then you don’t have to go through all of this.

You want it to say “blog” but you will use absolutely no categories at all? Is the site consisting only of Pages, with no posts? If you’re writing posts, you *are* using categories – the default is “uncategorized.”

The default category is “uncategorized.” And you don’t have to stick with “year” that was only a suggestion. If you read that post, it’ll give you some good suggestions.

If you want the category name to show, you can change the “Uncategorized” to “blog”, and put “blog” in the category base. But I’d read the post I linked to for safe suggestions on the best permalink to use.

First off, you should *never* use %postname% as your permalink settings. All kinds of bad.

Second, sounds like you want to use %category%/%postname – which is also all kinds of bad.

Instead, you wan to use a permalink setting that startes with a number, like /%year%/%category%/%postname or something along those lines.

I’m afraid I don’ quite understand what you’re asking for. but if all you want to do is put a link in a post that downloads a file, then you just insert it via the regular “Uploads” section at the top of where you write your post. The last image (looks kind of lik a star) is for files. Click it, upload your file, and insert the link into the post. That’s pretty much it.

You can remove the paragraph tags, but it requires some code. Your best bet would be to leave it alone, and just use CSS to change how the P tag is displayed. So in your theme file:

<div class="cat_desc"><?php echo category_description(); ?></div>

and in your CSS:

div.cat_desc p { display:inline; }

If there’s a block-level element before the P tag (such as an <h2> tag or something) then it’ll still push it to the next line. So in that case, you could do:

<div class="cat_desc">
<h2><?php get_the_categry(); ?></h2>
<?php echo category_description(); ?>
</div>

and in your css:

div.cat_desc h2, div.cat_desc p { display:inline; }