Len

Are you sure you’re not “nesting” the folders? It’s a common mistake.

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Although I understand what you mean I’ll clarify anyway. You’re not moving your blog to wordpress.org. This site is simply the place where you can get the free software to download and install on your server.

You can get that theme from the author’s website –> chrismeller.com

What makes you think you can’t use it on your own self-hosted blog?

Hi jackstands,

I just answered your question in the other forum where you asked it but I’ll answer it here as well for the benefit of others who may be wondering how to do it.

You can approach this in 2 different ways using the query_posts() function. This is a powerful function and can be used for all sorts of things. You can:

1. Include posts from ONE category to display on your home page or…

2. Exclude posts from ALL categories except for the one you want to display on your home page. Either way achieves the same result. How you go about it I suppose depends on how many categories you actually have.

Using method #1.
Let’s assume you have 3 categories named Local, Viral and Product Reviews. At the very top of index.php insert the following…

<?php
if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=x");
}
?>

…where x is the numerical ID of the category whose posts you want displayed. So, if you want to display posts only from the Local category on the home page then find the numerical ID of that category and insert it in the place of x.

Using method #2.
Again assuming you have the three categories as listed above insert the code below at the very top of index.php …

<?php
if (is_home()) {
query_posts("cat=-x,-x");
}
?>

This will EXCLUDE all posts from the categories you specify.

Further reading on query_posts() and the various arguments that can be passed to it at,

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

Also remember admin95, most of these hacks are carried out automatically by bots/scripts rather than someone sitting there viewing source code of random websites. That said security through obscurity is not a bad thing. Every little bit helps. It’s just something else to think about.

For the record, I too have WordPress plastered over all my site. There are many great tutorials all over the web (and in the Codex) on how to lock down your install.

Probably the easiest way is to view source code. The WordPress directories will be visible.

You could also do this:

Look in header.php for the call to the style sheet. It will look something like this…

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

We just need to wrap a few lines of code around it. Let’s assume the numerical ID of the page in question is 50.

<?php if ( is_page('50') ) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/pg-50.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } else { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>"  type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } ?>

What this says is if we are on the page with the ID of 50 use the style sheet pg-50.css and if not then use the regular style sheet. By the way you can also style categories this way. Rather than using is_page you would use is_category

WordPress doesn’t have a “default” htaccess per se. If you’re using the default permalink structure you won’t have that file. (unless you manually created it) If on the other hand you want to use so-called “pretty permalinks” WordPress will automatically create that file. Be advised that using “pretty permalinks” requires your server to have mod_rewrite (an Apache module that rewrites permalinks on the fly) enabled.

Here is a very basic htaccess file using “pretty permalinks”

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Have you tried reverting to the default permalink structure then enabling pretty permalinks?

Have a look at wp_list_categories

Edit: after re-reading the two questions perhaps I should be more clear.

Can I also hide the category from the “Categories list” in my sidebar?

Yes. Peruse the link I gave you above.

I’ll put a direct link under the Album of the Week picture. Is that possible?

No need to insert a direct link. <?php the_category(', '); ?> will display a link to the category of the post. In your theme it could be used like Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?> or something similar. More info on that here.

if I click on the “hidden category” it doesn’t display any posts. It redirects me to the homepage without my hidden post.

What theme are you using?