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Hi ChristiNi,

Thanks so much for writing back, I applied a width to my css sheet for the body element but I’m still getting the same thing.. not quite sure whats wrong but I’m gonna keep hunting..LOL would you have any other suggestions of where I should be looking? I thought at first maybe there was a div pushing out of the wrap but I placed background colors on each one to visibly see the divs and nothing seems out of sorts.

Thank you again for all your help 🙂

Hi racer x thanks for the reply –

I’m familiar with php but still learning the environment –
would you mind if I ask : where would I place the above code –

$url_length = strlen($the_url);
if ( $url_length > 15 ) {
$url_length_trunc = substr($the_url, 0, 14);
$url_length_trunc = $url_length_trun . '...';
}

and then where where would the
<?php echo $url_length_trunc; ?> go

the reason I ask is because this is the php code which is generating the twitter feed onto the page – and this coding is sitting in the
.twitterfeed -DIV

<?php
$username = "yo_maggie";
$num = 1;

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=" . $num;

$newfile = dirname(__FILE__)."/twitternew.json";
$file = dirname(__FILE__)."/twitter.json";

copy($feed, $newfile);

$oldcontent = @file_get_contents($file);
$newcontent = @file_get_contents($newfile);

if($oldcontent != $newcontent) {
copy($newfile, $file);
}
$tweets = @file_get_contents($file);

$tweets = json_decode($tweets);

echo "<ul>";
for($x=0;$x<$num;$x++) {
$str = ereg_replace("<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/:alpha:">:alpha:</a>+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\">\</a>", $tweets->results[$x]->text);
$pattern = '/[#|@][^\s]*/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $matches);	

foreach($matches[0] as $keyword) {
$keyword = str_replace(")","",$keyword);
$link = str_replace("#","%23",$keyword);
$link = str_replace("@","",$keyword);
if(strstr($keyword,"@")) {
$search = "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$link\">$keyword</a>";
} else {
$link = urlencode($link);
$search = "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/#search?q=$link\" class=\"grey\">$keyword</a>";
}
$str = str_replace($keyword, $search, $str);
}

echo "<li>".$str."</li>\n";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

Thanks again hope this makes sense.

Thanks very much truly appreciate it!

Hi thank you for the reply.. I’m a bit new to WP so forgive for not being up to date with all this. What exactly should I do with the pastebin file? do I just copy whats in the category template I created and paste that in? The error with the nesting is this something that I would be able to see viewing the source code here is the actual coding being used on the category page do you think you could spot what needs to be fixed? Thank you very much for your assistance.

<?php
/*
Template Name: The Making of Player Hating
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

   <style type="text/css">
	body {background-color:#fff;}
	#wrap {background-color:#fff;}
	</style>

         <div id="blog_main12">
         	<div id="blog12">

         <div class="blog-cat12">
        <?php global $query_string;
query_posts($query_string . "&order=ASC"); ?>

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

                    <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                    <p class="meta">posted by <?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_date(); ?></p>
                    <?php the_content('read more'); ?>
                    <br />
                    <div id="retweet">
          <?php if (function_exists('topsy_retweet_small')) echo topsy_retweet_small(); ?>
          </div><!--end retweetTW -->
                    <div id="shareFB">
       <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink();?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>" target="blank">Share on Facebook</a>
</div><!--end shareFB div-->

     <div class="BlogComments">
             <a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?> Comment(s)</a>
             </div><!--end blogcomments-->

             </div><!--end blog post-->

     <?php endwhile; ?>

               <?php else : ?>
               <p>The information you are looking for is not available.</p>
               <?php endif; ?>
                 </div><!--end blog-->

         </div><!--End main-->
	<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hey esmi if I could ask another question would you know if I’m using this coding here `
<?php $recent = new WP_Query(); ?>
<?php $recent->query(‘cat=12&showposts=1’); ?>
<?php if($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

<h2>“><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<p class=”meta”>posted by <?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?> at <?php the_time(‘g:i a’); ?></p>
<?php global $more; $more = 0; ?>
<p><?php the_content(‘read more’); ?></p>

<div class=”BlogComments”>
“><?php comments_number(‘0’, ‘1’, ‘%’); ?> Comment(s)
</div><!–end blogcomments–>

<div id=”retweet”>
<?php if (function_exists(‘topsy_retweet_small’)) echo topsy_retweet_small(); ?>
</div><!–end retweetTW –>
<div id=”shareFB”>
&t=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”blank”>Share on Facebook
</div><!–end shareFB div–>
<?php endif; ?>

<div id=”blog_message”>
<p>Please check back shortly for updated blog content!</p>

</div>

</div><!–end blog post–>
</div>`

the div – blog_message: displays the message on the page and the content is gone after using your suggestion of <?php if (have_posts()) :?> but if I place content in the message is still there under the post would you know what conditional statement I would use to make the message disappear when content is present?

Thanks again.

Hey esmi I figured everything out.. took some time but I finally got it. Thanks!

Also just some background right now I have in the post section of my WP Admin panel a post called Blog which is linked to the category Uncategorized and then I have a Template set up on my server with this coding in it to pull the most recent post from each category on that page here is the coding Is this even the right way to do this, I was thinking that maybe I need to place this in a page but it doesn’t seem to work very well.

Thanks again.

<?php
$num_cats_to_show = 10;
$count = 0;
$taxonomy = 'category';//  e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; //  e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC',
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => 1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      $count ++;
      if ($count <= $num_cats_to_show) {
        while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

         <div class="blog-post">
            <!--<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Thumbnail", true);?>" /> -->
            <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
         <p class="meta">posted by <?php the_author(); ?> on <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?></p>
          <?php the_content('read more'); ?>

     <div class="BlogComments">
             <a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?> Comment(s)</a>
             </div><!--end blogcomments-->

             </div><!--end blog post-->

         <?php
        endwhile;
      }
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>