Len

You’re pulling posts from various categories using custom queries all styled by CSS. In this thread I listed several free magazine-styled themes that do this.

Where can I get content?

Um, your head?

If you’re looking for something to supplement your content try Googling “article directories” – some of them allow you to reprint their content on your site.

The Themes section used to be searchable by various criteria. It also offered the ability to browse all themes.

To search by tag go to –>http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/

To view theme by theme click “Newest Themes” and you’ll be presented with a list of themes with a navigation link at the bottom of the page.

You’re on the right track. What theme are you using?

so when I put the link in, it gives me a “Page not found” message.

When you put what link in? The full URL of the image is,

http://www.myheartvoice.com/wp-content/themes/pink-orchid/ads/125-ad.jpg

The image is contained in a subfolder of your theme called ads. Just replace each instance with your own image using the same dimensions.

I’m sure there must be something in the Plugin Directory that will do what you want although I haven’t looked.

Another method: insert the following in your theme’s function.php file,

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_trim_excerpt');

function custom_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
global $post;
if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');
$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = x;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '...');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
}
return $text;
}

Adjust the line $excerpt_length = x; to whatever you want.

Yet another method (and one I don’t recommend) is to change the core file used to set excerpts. It is located at wp-includes/formatting.php Look for the line excerpt_length

for that you can also use various author tags for that please refer:

Why would he want to do that? He can refer to the Template Tags section of the Codex.

Are you here to help or plug your blog?

Yeah, you can insert it into any page template you want. Just be sure to use it inside the loop.