jonimueller
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Extending the length of type per post…You can control the post length on a post-by-post basis using the More tag rather than an excerpt.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Which .php is used to control a New Static Page?The page.php template is used to generate WordPress PAGE content (static pages).
If you want to use one of your WP Pages as your web site’s home or front page, you have to tell WordPress that in Settings.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Like WP so well, want to update other parts of site with it.This should get you started. There are also some helpful tips in the comments.
http://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages
Lakehills, Texas, BTW?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Extending the length of type per post…The excerpt is hard coded into WordPress to be 55 characters long. I personally would prefer a setting expressed in LINES rather than characters.
Nevertheless, you can alter that number across the board by placing this code into your functions.php file; just change “55” below to the number of your choice (it may take some trial and error):
// POST EXCERPT LENGTH IS SET HERE function my_excerpt_length($text){ return 55; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Can’t decode theme!I wouldn’t use a theme that has malicious code in it. Your question was already answered, a solution provided to you. Whether you heed the advice given is entirely up to you. But please stop with your ginormous sense of entitlement. This is a free forum; no one here is paid to be here or to help. Maybe people have paying work they need to do, maybe they’re out on the town, asleep. Or here’s one: Maybe they just don’t feel like it. Sheesh.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer Problem!And once you fix those validation errors, and you still have issues with IE, you may want to look into writing a specific stylesheet for it using conditional comments. Those are less necessary with IE8, but still needed in some cases with IE7. And don’t get me started on IE6. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: NGG header code throws out broken images and breaks siteI knew as soon as I posted this, I’d figure out it was a problem between and betwixt the keyboard and the chair.
Carry on. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Display posts on a page#henk, if the above was meant for me, thanks. The query posts code is nudging me in the right direction. Right now I have a custom category page that is pulling in weekly archives and I need to add the query to make it specific to that category, because apparently, WP is not honoring the category-x.php extension. It’s throwing all weekly posts there. So I guess I need that query string.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Display posts on a pageOh, and Jarred, what you really need to do if you have a specific category that you want to do this with is just create a category template for that category. You need to go to the category page in the WP dashboard and find the category ID. Make note of it. Let’s assume it’s ID is 5. You’ll then name your new category template category-5.php
You can then go hog wild and style the crap out of that template; you can choose excerpts (which I recommend) or full posts, just titles and dates or have it basically any way you want. This is something I do regularly.
Here’s some more info on a custom category template:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templateshttp://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/custom-category-templates-on-a-archive-or-index-page.html
http://gabediaz.com/blog/custom-category-page-and-post-templates-for-wordpress/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Display posts on a pageI’ve got a similar issue. I need to be able to display all the posts of a particular category, but only for the latest week. Or if this is not feasible, then to just break them down by week.
CATEGORY “FOO” PAGE which should display as follows, assuming Week 5 is the current week:
Week 5:
A post in category foo
Another post in category foo
Yet another post in category foo
More fooWeek 4:
A post in category foo
Another post in category foo
Yet another post in category foo
More fooWeek 3:
A post in category foo
Another post in category foo
Yet another post in category foo
More fooAnd so on. I know I can pull all the posts from a certain category, but how can I tell WordPress to also break them down this way? Loops?
Thanks!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Entire Web Site won’t centerYou’re going to have to put the entire thing in a wrapper division:
<div id="wrapper"> blog contents here </div><!-- /wrapper -->So the first part (
<div id="wrapper">) goes in your header.php file right below the body tag.The closing tag (
</div><!-- /wrapper -->) goes right above the closing body tag.And in your stylesheet add this:
#wrapper { margin: 0 auto; width: [[You'll have to decide on a fixed width based on your content and sidebar widths combined, expressed in px]]; }Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: stopping image having underline when a linkTry
#content img a:hover { border-bottom: none !important; }That tells the browser not to underline any image in the #content division.
I’m not sure this works and I’m not where I can test it out right now, and really the better thing to do is to have all your links use text-decoration, rather than border. If an image has a border, which some do, especially thumbnail images in posts, this is going to wreak havoc with those borders, if I’m not mistaken. I’ll be home in about an hour. I want to see if I’m right or wrong. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Email ForwardingWhat this has to do with WordPress is beyond me, but I’ll try to answer it anyway.
If you have cPanel access, just go to Email and Forwarders. That allows you to set any number of “forwarders” and have them go to the email address of your choice.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WTF, content won’t show! WP Gurus help me =)Can you see the posts in the SQL file via PHPMyAdmin? I am wondering if somehow they all became draft posts? Other than that, I’m out of ideas.
Which themes are you having problems with? Make sure that your FTP program isn’t choking and failing to completely upload all the theme files. This sometimes happens.