ivovic

yeah, fair enough, who knows… maybe the hostican admins hang out here when their server is down.

maybe what you guys really want is a forum, not a blog.

Try the “design” tab instead… *sigh* 😛

I think it’s important to accept that there’s just some stuff you can’t do…

and putting borders and crap on your anchor tags is one of those things, unless you want it to happen on *all* anchor tags.

’nuff said.

really, the effect isn’t worth it anyway – if you want underlines, use bloody underlines, not borders.

your issue with replacing the text with an image must have been just a punctuation problem — otherwise, it should have worked just fine.

<?php if (in_category(9)) : ?>
   <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/brose1.jpg" alt="test system image" />
<?php elseif (in_category(8)) : ?>
   <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/automation.jpg" alt="test system image" />
<?php else : ?>
   [whatever else goes here]
<?php endif; ?>

I don’t like splitting up curly brackets like you have – it works, but it’s hard to keep track of, so when I use large amounts of HTML between conditionals, I like to use the alternate syntax, above.

your question about other reasons, and the purpose of rewind_posts are inextricably linked.

the_post advances the post counter so that once a post has been output, it isn’t stepped through again. Rewind_posts takes that counter and resets it.

This is useful if you want to reuse the query you just performed, for whatever reason. Instead of doing it again, rewind_posts will just allow you to step through it as though you’ve never outputted it before.

This is particularly useful for ‘contents’ style links like I have at the top of my sidebar on the main page — as it saves you doing the query again.

regardless of whether you change the query or not, rewind_posts just lets you use it as many times as you like.

well, if you’re comfortable with your understanding of the rewriting part, then it’s important to note that the rewriting is being sent to the same file (index.php)

wordpress then takes your URL and breaks it up according to your permalink options. First you tell it what the /x/y/z/ mean in the permalink settings, right? then it uses that information to deduce which of those is a category, and which is a page or a post name.

using the most common settings as an example…

if it finds /category/x/ it knows, that x is a category, if it finds just /x/ then it’s a page… since /9999/ is a number and if your permalinks are date based, then it’s most likely a yearly archive, right?… and so on.

set your permalinks to /howdy-friend/got-a-post-called/%postname%/for-ya/