Len

You could simply create a category called Album of the Week and file those particular posts in it. When a visitor clicks that category name those posts will come up. They can then select individual posts to read and/or comment on.

With respect to excluding those posts from the front page you can do it with the query_posts function. Look in index.php for…

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

…and modify it as such…

<?php query_posts('cat=-ID'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

…where ID is the numerical ID of the category you want to exclude.

More reading on query_posts.

With respect to the first question, under the “write post” block is another block called “Excerpt”. Put whatever you want in there. See this link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt paying close attention to the very first paragraph.

Open r_sidebar.php and look for …

<h2>About</h2>
This is an area on your website where you can add text.  This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

On another note, you have an incorrect link on your personal website. The home link in the top nav points to a file on your hard drive. 😉

Your blog is pinging itself when you link to internal posts. This results in pingbacks appearing in the comments section – a normal WordPress behaviour. If you don’t want that you can search for a “no self ping” plugin.

What is your site’s URL?

Okay, you’ve swapped this for that but I’m a little confused as to what you exactly did.

This is an interesting theme in that it utilizes 3 different header graphics – one for index.php, another for archive.php and yet another for page.php

If you open up page.php (which is the template your theme uses for displaying Pages) you will see this at the top –>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/myheader1.php'); ?>

Instead of calling header.php it is calling myheader1.php So let’s take a look at myheader1.php. If we open up THAT file we see this –>

<div id="banner2" onclick="location.href='<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>';" style="cursor: pointer;"></div>

It is using the DIV –> banner2
So we now go to the style sheet where we see this…
#banner2 { background: url("images/banner2.jpg") no-repeat; height:134px; }

The DIV banner2 uses this graphic –> images/banner2.jpg

Putting this together, let’s assume you want to change the graphic displayed on Pages. (page.php) You don’t have to be renaming DIVs. All you need to do is change the call to the image in the style sheet.

1. Upload you new image to the theme’s image folder – let’s call it newbanner.jpg for simplicity
2. I already explained how page.php calls myheader1.php
3. myheader1.php contains the DIV “banner2”
4. In the style sheet look for…

#banner2 { background: url("images/banner2.jpg") no-repeat; height:134px; }

…and change it to…

#banner2 { background: url("images/newbanner.jpg") no-repeat; height:134px; }

Try this…

<?php wp_list_authors
('exclude_admin=0&show_fullname=1&hide_empty=1'); ?>

Have you run the upgrade script?

yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

While in phpMyAdmin can you see wp_terms?