Jeremy Pry

Should be that all you need to do is add The_Loop to a custom Page Template.

You can use the link given by esmi if you want to be more specific about what posts are displayed (i.e. a certain category) or changing the order of posts.

See also:

Templates
Using_Themes
Theme_Development

Sorry, I was still typing mine and didn’t see Joseph’s response until after I posted. Same info, though!

Your functions file should be located at http://www.modernmanfitness.com/wp-content/themes/vesper/functions.php. You would can use the editor in the WordPress admin page, or use your own text editor to make the change. Simply copy and past the code that esmi gave to you, replacing the 100 in the line return 100; with the number of words you want in your excerpts.

Check out these pages for more details:

the_excerpt
excerpt_length

While looking at your site now, the Logo element is showing as white, I don’t see any of the changes that you mentioned in the custom stylesheet… This is the extent of the content in the custom stylesheet:

/*changes color of the content box*/
.custom #content {Background-color:#ffffff;}

/*changes background image*/
.custom {background-color:#000000;}

/*changes tabs*/
.custom ul#tabs .home-item a { color: #000000; }
.custom ul#tabs .page-item-1 a { color: #000000; }
.custom ul#tabs .page-item-2 a { color: #000000; }

.custom #sidebar_1 {background:#E3F0F2 padding: 0px 5px}

What browser are you using to test in? Are you editing through the WordPress admin panel, or are you using your own Text Editor and re-uploading the files? Or is there a special interface that the theme itself sets up for you?

I see why that wouldn’t work… I identified the wrong piece of code that needs changed. Try this instead:

#logo a {
   color: #fff;
}

Because it’s a link, if you want it to adjust the behavior of the link, you’ll also need to set the style of the pseudo classes. The most simple example would be if you want all of them to be the same no matter what, in which case you could do this:

#logo a,
#logo a:link,
#logo a:visited,
#logo a:hover,
#logo a:active {
   color: #fff;
}

Technically, you could hard-code the content in HTML, but that would pretty much defeat the purpose of WordPress, wouldn’t it?

A better option would be to make a WordPress page, and then set up your file as a custom template specifically for that page. The key ingredients are the template tag at the top of the page and the Loop. So, a very simple custom page template might look like this:

<?php
/* Template Name: Custom template
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="content">
<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- your formatting of the post content goes here, perhaps something like this: -->
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   <h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
   <div class="entry-content">
      <?php the_content(); ?>
   </div><!-- .entry-content -->
</div><!-- #post-## -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div><!-- #content -->
<?php get_sidebar; /* (if you have a sidebar) */ ?>
<?php get_footer; ?>

When you are editing the page in your admin panel, there is an option on the right side to select the template that you are going to use for that page. That is where you would want to select “Custom template”.

A few other things of note…. While technically you can write your header and footer however you want, a good practice is to contain all the opening code in your header, and all the closing code in the footer, rather than manually coding them in each template file.

Some good resources:
The_Loop
Theme_Development
Templates

In your page editor in the WordPress Admin section, set the page to use a custom page template (aka your page2.php). Doing it that way means that you don’t have to try to write redirects for WordPress, which by design handles URLs differently than a normal server file system.

For more information, see Pages.

There is a WordPress app for the iPhone, but I’m not sure whether it will do video or not. It definitely does images in posts. I have an iPhone 3G, but not the 3GS, so I can’t currently test with video.