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Thanks a billion BinaryMoon. I’ve been out for the last few days so I’ll check with my host and see what’s what. 🙂

Quote:

“Honestly, the only one who knows that id number 7 is a post and 8 is a Page is you because you snooped into the database.”

Actually, this is incorrect.

When I make a post with a default install of WP v1.5 (default template) the title of the post comes up as the following link “wp/?p=1”.

The category link at the bottom of the post shows up as “wp/index.php?cat=1”, comments as “wp/?p=1#comments” and so on.

If somebody was to link to one of my Pages the default URL would be along the lines of “/wp/?page_id=8”.

I didn’t have to snoop anywhere to see that and it only occured to me because somebody trackbacked to a post of mine using the “wp/?p=1” link (which takes you right to the post they wanted).

I saw that you can use the date but that’s worthless when you post more than once a day on various subjects which is why I left it at the default setting. I was going to look into the post-slug thing (which is why I was asking about the clean URLs mentioned above) but I tend to have long titles and a URL ceases to be clean when it gets rather long. IMHO I think that “?post=1” is cleaner than “this-is-the-rather-long-title-to-my-post” but if somebody can show me the real merits of the other way of doing this I’m certainly interested.

[EDIT – forgot to mention the page URL in the first part]

Ok, I can see how that works but when I drop it into my header.php the rest of my content ceases to exist (index.php and footer.php et cetera). I can get it to work in my inxex.php just fine but that places it below my posts.
Hmm. Perhaps using header and footer files to keep even my static pages looking the same was a bad idea. =/

Yeah, I suppose I could use a drop-down box. In all honesty, the only reason I’m putting the list at the bottom of my page is because I can’t figure out how to call it from another page (my header.php) as it won’t parse unless it is in my index.php (or so it seems).

Ok. Before I check the links I want to figure something out… you say that the lists aren’t valid but the thing is, I’m not using a list. My code in my index.php is;
<?php get_archives('') ?>
That’s it. No list, no nothing. Where is it even pulling the

from? I understand that it’s not valid but I don’t even understand where that is coming from to begin with.

Ok. I viewed the source and it comes out with;

• August 2004

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That explains the bullet point and thank you for explaining that it is coming from within WP itself. Now, are you saying that I should go and add to my .css in order to counter this?
While I can setup a new parameter in my css to fix the color and feel of it how will that change the actual textual output of “August 2004” or the spaceless weekly output that comes out?