Austin Matzko

If you want to assign this template to a particular page, then you need to amend it as so:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Pure Content
*/
the_content();

and choose “Pure Content” under Attributes > Template when editing a page.

so, perhaps, i’m better off turning the front page into a static page. and then putting the the “blog” on another page. and then putting the “single recent post” on the static front page. logistically, does that make more sense given my desired end result?

In my opinion, this is the best way to go, because otherwise you’re going to run into some complicated paging issues.

I don’t know if there exists such a thing, but here is the code to do it:

<?php

/*
 Plugin Name: Post Category Widget
 Version: 1.0
 Description: Widget to show a list of posts from the current post's category.
 Author: Austin Matzko
 Author URI: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/
 */

function current_category_widget_list($args) {
	if ( have_posts() && ( is_single() || is_category() ) ) :
		the_post();
		$post_id = get_the_ID();
		$post_id = intval($post_id);
		rewind_posts();
		wp_reset_query();
		extract($args);
		$cats = (array) wp_get_post_categories($post_id);
		$cat_id = ( is_category() ) ? intval(get_query_var('cat')) : intval(array_shift($cats));
		$r = new WP_Query("cat=$cat_id");
		if ($r->have_posts()) :
			echo $before_widget . $before_title . sprintf('Recent Posts in "%s"', get_cat_name($cat_id)) . $after_title; ?>
				<ul>
				<?php  while ($r->have_posts()) : $r->the_post(); ?>
				<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php if ( get_the_title() ) the_title(); else the_ID(); ?> </a></li>
				<?php endwhile; ?>
				</ul>
			<?php echo $after_widget;
			rewind_posts();
			wp_reset_query();
		endif;
	endif;
}

function current_category_widget_list_init() {
	wp_register_sidebar_widget( 'current-post-category-list', 'Current Category List', 'current_category_widget_list');
}

add_action('init', 'current_category_widget_list_init');

If you really want just the content of a page (in the WordPress sense of “page”), then create a page.php template file in your theme’s directory with the following content:

<?php
the_content();

Yep, that’s it.

Wow. If you’re consistently getting those kinds of performance hits just from using get_currentuserinfo() then please open a support ticket, as this is a bug that needs to be addressed.

To get the current username from the cookie, do the following:

$cookie_data = explode('|', $_COOKIE[LOGGED_IN_COOKIE]);
$username = $cookie_data[0];

What it means is that the cached data object for your RSS feed occasionally doesn’t exist.

But that’s not the real issue. The real issue is that for security purposes a live site should not be displaying any error messages whatsoever, much less warning messages, which is all this is. Contact your host and ask it to disable PHP messages for your site.

If there isn’t already a home.php template file in your theme, create one by copying index.php as home.php. Then edit it and somewhere at the top put the following:

query_posts(array('showposts' => 1));