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brendadada –

What ftp program are you using? Sometimes errors in the FTP upload process will cause these types of errors. Re-upload all of the 2.5.1 files BESIDES ‘wp-content’ and ‘wp-config.php’. If you are still having this problem, use a different FTP program.

I just had the same issue. After a restart of the FTP program and overwrite of the files (minus above), everything works fine.

Let me know how it goes.

You want pretty links, refer to this article to set up your custom Permalink structure.

You could make a Page called “Songs” and try this:

<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=1
&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=8'); ?>
</ul>

Enter the parent-category ID where the ‘8’ is. Refer to this article for more details on “wp_list_categories”.

And in general, get familiar with Template Tags. <– The key to WordPress. From this page you will find documentation on:

• Stepping Into Template Tags (an introduction to Template Tags)
• Anatomy of a Template Tag (details of how to put Tags into Template files)
• How to Pass Tag Parameters (details of how to use Parameters with Tags)
• Include Tags (additional tags not shown here, related to including one Template file within another)
• Conditional Tags (more additional tags not shown here, related to making your Templates more flexible with options)
• Templates (a comprehensive list of Template, Theme, and Tag resources)
• Stepping Into Templates (introduction to Template files)

Good luck, let me know how this goes I’ll keep watch on this post. Welcome to the WordPress community.

Sorry I’m new to giving advice. If you want code to copy and paste for the loop, here it is (without my site-specific code)

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('showposts=6' . '&paged=' . $paged . '&cat=4');
$wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false;
?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="thumbnails" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>-thumb">

 <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="http://s2.ytimg.com/vi/<?php
// this is where the custom field prints images for each Feature
$values = get_post_custom_values("video_id"); echo $values[0]; ?>/default.jpg" alt="<?php the_title(); ?> Thumbnail" /></a>

<p class="thumb_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php endwhile; ?>

  <div class="navigation">
                <div class="alignright"><?php next_posts_link('Next') ?></div>
		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_posts_link('Previous') ?></div>
  </div>
</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

CSS that needs styling with this code:

• .thumbnails
• .thumb_title
• .navigation
• .alignright
• .alignleft

Posts as Youtube Thumbnails

You can use the custom fields to accomplish this.

First, create a custom field in one of your posts. Name the ‘Key’ somethings like ‘video_id’ (without quotes) and in the ‘Value’ field, put the ID of the youtube video:

So if your embed code looks like this:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uug6TjvRJaE&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uug6TjvRJaE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

the Custom Field would be Key=video_id and Value= uug6TjvRJaE

After creating the custom field, create a new page template (eg. video_thumbs.php) NOTE: you can alter your index.php file directly, but I would advise testing on a page first.

In that new page, copy and paste all of the contents of your index.php. Then replace the loop with this code:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php
// this is where the module begins
query_posts('showposts=1&cat=199'); ?> //change the showposts number to the number of posts that you want to appear, and change cat=199 to your category number (or remove), which you can find out by going to Manage > Categories
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="thumbnails">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="http://s2.ytimg.com/vi/<?php
// this is where the custom field prints images for each post
$values = get_post_custom_values("video_id"); echo $values[0]; ?>/default.jpg" alt="<?php the_title(); ?> Thumbnail" /></a>
<p class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?></a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Only replace the code between <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> and <?php endwhile; ?>

Save and upload to your server. Then create a new page and set it to use the video_thumbs.php template. Navigate to this page and viola!

You must add a ‘video_id’ custom field to any post that you wish to have a thumbnail.

With the example above each entry will be given a div class of ‘thumbnails’. You can call that whatever you want, as well as style it appropriately.

Of course, when you have your desired results you could use ‘is_home’ conditional tags to incorporate this into your index.php file.

This works for me. Just figured this out for myself and I was so happy that I had to share. I knew people would love to hear my solution.

And just so you know, the link to a thumbnail for any youtube video is http://s2.ytimg.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/default.jpg (where ‘video_id’ is the youtube id – eg: http://s2.ytimg.com/vi/uug6TjvRJaE/default.jpg)

Let me know how it goes. May end up turning this into a simple plugin.