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Hi sillystrations, you can post questions related to the customizr theme in the customizr support forum.

Hi sergec10, the wp-config-sample.php is in the main folder of your WordPress install files. Once you find it, you can manually change the values, then save it and rename it wp-config.php

Are you opening wp-admin/install.php by visiting the location in your browser or by opening the file in a text editor?

Sure! Here’s a step-by-step. How you approach depends on how you’re set up, so I will assume that you’re using a .org directory theme (like twentyeleven, etc) rather than a custom-built theme.

1. Create a Child Theme (so that you’re not messing with your current theme’s template files) and activate it.

2. Create a Page Template by copying your current theme’s index.php into your child theme and formatting and renaming it to function as a template.

3. Add a query to the loop in your page template

4. Create a News page and assign your template to it.

5. Add the News page to your menu

This are good techniques to test out anyway — once you get the hang of page templates and queries, you’ll find lots of ways to customize your content feeds. Let us know how it goes!

There’s a super-simple solution, if you want to apply that to all your archive pages: go to Admin Dashboard > Settings > Reading and set “Blog pages show at most # posts” to 5.

There are a lot of errors in that code. Without going too deep, I removed a bunch of the typos that were causing things to break. There are a few things about image treatment that I couldn’t be certain about at first glance, but hopefully the surface errors are the source. Let me know if it helps!

<?php get_header();?>
<div id="main-container">
		<ul class="posts">
			<?php if(have_posts()):?>
			<?php while(have_posts()):the_post();?>
				<?php if (is_paged()) : ?>
				<?php $postclass = ('post'); ?>
				<?php else : ?>
				<?php $postclass = ($post == $posts[0]) ? 'featured-post' : 'post'; ?>
				<?php endif; ?>

					<?php if ($postclass == 'featured-post'){ ?>
							<div class="feature-post">
								<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">

								<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true) ) { ?>
									<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', $single = true); ?>&h=164&w=320&zc=1&q=100" class="thumb-image" /></a>
									<?php } else { ?> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/latest_post.jpg" /></a>
									<?php } ?>
									 <img src="http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/Disneylover1031/missing-image_zps3803d257.png" border="0" alt="" /></a>	

					<div class="post-title-big">
						<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
					</div>
						<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
						<a href="<?php the_permalink();?>" id="continue-btn" title="Continue Reading">Continue</a>

					</div><!--feature-post-->

					<?php } else { ?>
						<li>
						<div class="<?php echo $postclass; ?>">
						<div class="post-title"><span class="comments-bubble"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%');?></span><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title();?>"><?php the_title();?></a><!--comments-bubble--></div><!--post-title-->

					<?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true) ) { ?>
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
							<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', $single = true); ?>&h=164&w=320&zc=1&q=100" class="thumb-image" /></a>
							<?php } ?>
							<div class="post-excerpt">
							<?php the_excerpt();?>
							</div><!--post-excerpt-->
							</div><!--post-->
						</li>
					<?php }	?>

				<?php endwhile;?>
		</ul>
		<?php endif;?>
		<div class="page-navigation">
		<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) {?>
		<?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
		<?php } else { ?>
		<?php posts_nav_link();?>
		<?php } ?>
		</div><!--page-navigation-->
</div><!--main-container-->
<?php get_footer();?>

Hi Rick! You’ll be happy to find out that it’s easier than you think — RSS feeds are built into WordPress. You can read up on it here, and come back and ask if you still have questions: WordPress Feeds

You can change the date format in your admin dashboard: Settings > General. There’s a screenshot here: Settings General Screen

The problem for the author entry is that display has been set to ‘none.’ If you delete that line in your .css file, the author should show on your page.

.single-author .entry-meta .by-author {
    display: none;
}