Dutchg

Got it, Matt. Thanks. I think I’ll sidestep the issue by making the captions part of the image itself–I need the flexibility of placing the images in the middle of longish paragraphs.

I appreciate your help in tracking down the issue.

But IE is showing the same behavior–i.e., breaking when the caption is added. So are you saying, Matt, that 1 and 2 look identical on Safari? … I mean other than 2 having a caption.

I’ve been searching and experimenting. I think I found my answer. I found a longer “page of posts” file and slipped that in for the “podcast” page theme we had, and identifed “podcast” as the category to display. So the new podcasts.php one looks like this, and seems to be doing the trick.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Podcasts
*/
get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="site-content">
		<div id="content" role="main">

		<?php
			$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
			$args= array(
				'category_name' => 'podcast', // Change this category SLUG to suit your use; or see for query parameters http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
				'paged' => $paged
);
			query_posts($args);
			if( have_posts() ) :?>

			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
				<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
				<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

			<?php twentytwelve_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>

			<?php else : ?>
			<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
				<header class="entry-header">
					<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h1>
				</header>
				<div class="entry-content">
					<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></p>
					<?php get_search_form(); ?>
				</div><!-- .entry-content -->
			</article><!-- #post-0 -->

			<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I also loaded a plug-in to help switch in alternate header on the podcast page. Getting there…

thanks again for your help, Esmi

esmi, I’m sorry to bother you, but I’m unable to solve this. Per my last note, the podcast page we created is not showing my posts that are categorized as podcasts. Any pointers you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dutch

esmi, I’ve been experimenting with this for the last couple hours. You will see I’ve put the main nav up top, just beneath my header. The “podcast” link in that nav points to the custom page we created this morning.

But you’ll see that when you click that podcast link, the one podcast I’ve uploaded doesn’t show up. I can’t figure out why.

I could make that top-nav podcast link go to the “category” podcast instead of the page we created (as the category link in the sidebar now works), but I was hoping that having a custom page for the podcast would allow me to customize the header for the podcast (haven’t tried that yet).

I feel like we’re very close. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Great, esmi. That seems to be working. Now…I see where we’re going, but what’s my next move if I want to create that page for my podcasts? Sorry if I seem a little dull about this–I am! I appreciate the help!

OK. Just did that. So far so good, I think. I noticed, that last line of your snippet:

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );

Is “exclude_category” right there? Or should that, too, change to “only_category”?

I’m having trouble with that, Esmi.

I created that custom page template, uploaded it into my child theme directory. I then went into my child functions.php, adding the code you sent, so it looked like this:

<?php 

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-9' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_page_template( 'podcasts.php' ) && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '9' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

?>

When I updated to save that change, the site went away and I got this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/mdgarvey/public_html/oldanswers/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/functions.php:10) in /usr/home/mdgarvey/public_html/oldanswers/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1121