jonimueller

This may be six of one, half a dozen of the other, but here’s how I did it. You can see it (Tech Tips), here: http://www.znzx.com

You’ll need to grab your category ID (I inserted the value X), and you can tell it how many posts you want it to display (value Y). Change up the heading from techtips to whatever your category is.

<li id="techtips"><h3>Tech Tips</h3>
<ul>
 <?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=Y&offset=1&category=X');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

This happens to me all the time, so I have to throw it out as a solution. When you created a new database for WordPress, and a new user, did you remember to assign the user to the database? I swear, I run off and forget that one little detail all the time. 😉

Agreed. And unless your web host is doing something behind the scenes, there was probably something you did (install a new plugin, tweak a theme) that caused the upload feature to work “until now.”

The more details the better. I left my crystal ball at home today, sorry. (And Whoo won’t let me borrow hers!)

First of all, in your template, take the style out (stuff between brackets below); it’s redundant, as it’s already in your stylesheet. 😉

<p class="postdate"[ style="text-align: right;"]>

Try this instead; I posted The Loop code so you could be sure you had the date call in the right place.

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_date('','<p class=\"postdate\">','
'); ?>

That puts the date code at the top of the day’s posts. But it’s not a wrapper so it won’t insert your border at the end of that day’s posts. You should create a wrapper division or move the “post” division up in front of the date code (after The Loop and before the date code I posted). Make it a class, not an ID, in case you have several days’ worth of posts. Then style it with a bottom border and some bottom margin and padding.

What version of WP are you running? If you are using anything other than 2.0.11 or 2.5.1, UPGRADE immediately. With 2.5.x, you have the option of creating a page (you can call it “Home”) and telling WP to use that as your site’s front page, rather than the page that contains your posts.

You are using WordPress.com This forum is for standalone, self-hosted versions of WP. Wrong forum, sorry.

Then you should create a custom category template. You can read abou that here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

The trick is to get it where the pages appear in the page listings. A friend of mine posted a neat trick to get an outside URL onto your Page Nav. But you could just as easily link it to your custom category page if you wanted to:
http://www.ivovic.net/2008/05/20/turn-a-wordpress-page-into-a-link

So once you have your category template created, and for example, if the category is called downloads, then if you have permalinks turned on, your site URL for the downloads category would be:
http://mycoolsite.com/category/downloads/

Your page would be called downloads and that’s what would appear in the Page Nav. But when it’s clicked on, it takes you to the category template page. Make sense?

Once all that is set up, all you ever need do is post to your downloads category and WP will take care of the rest. Hope this helps you to achieve what you want.