luckdragon

in your footer, you can do something like:

<div id="widget-footer">
                    <div class="container_24 clearfix">
<? /* Begin Box Here */?>
                        <div class="grid_6">
                            <?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( '1Footer' ) ) : ?>
                              <!--Widgetized Footer-->
                            <?php endif ?>
                        </div>
<? /* End Box Here */ ?>
                    </div>
                </div>

then, for each of the boxes you define, in your functions.php put:

register_sidebar(array(
   'name'          => '1Footer',
   'id'            => '1footer-sidebar',
   'description'   => __( 'Located at the bottom of pages.'),
   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-footer">',
   'after_widget'  => '</div>',
   'before_title'  => '<h5>',
   'after_title'   => '</h5>',
   )
 );

that will add the locations and allow you to place “widgets” into them 🙂

just repeat the steps for the boxes (copy from begin box to end box to duplicate and change the name)

probably setting up some kind of user variable that is their “default location” so that when searches and stuff are done, it uses that variable. if that variable isn’t set, have it default somewhere, but also allow it to be overridden via urls or something similar.

is that a plugin? or a built in page? if it’s a plugin, you can modify it so you can pass a parameter to it, whether it be via ?letter=A or /yourpage/A

then you can modify the query to only show the links of the letter specified.

same concept, only since there’s only 1 theme, you only need to put it in that theme’s functions.php file

add_action('wp_head','magazine_style');
function magazine_style() {
  global $post;  get_the_category();
$magazineAcats = array("Magazine A","headlines A", "TOC");
$magazineBcats = array("Magazine B","headlines B", "Sporting Events");

if (in_category($magazineAcats)) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url')?>/magazineA.css" type="text/css" />
<? } else if (in_category($magazineBcats)) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url')?>/MagazineB.css" type="text/css" />
<? } else { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url')?>/style.css" type="text/css" />
<? }}?>

also, you might have to list each category individually (like sub-categories)

$magazineAcats = array("Magazine A","headlines A", "TOC");
$magazineBcats = array("Magazine B","headlines B", "Sporting Events");

if (in_category($magazineAcats)) {

define('FS_METHOD','direct');

that is 2 parameters, try typing it rather than pasting it, sometimes characters don’t translate properly.

if you are differentiating them by category, it would be something similar to this:

add_filter('template', 'magazine_style');
add_filter('option_template', 'magazine_style');
add_filter('option_stylesheet', 'magazine_style');

function magazine_style($theme) {
  get_the_category();

  if ( in_category('Magazine A') ) {
    $theme="MagazineA";
  } elseif ( in_category ('Magazine B') ) {
    $theme="MagazineB";
  } elseif ( in_category ('Magazine C') ) {
    $theme="MagazineC";
  } else {
  }
  return $theme;
}