mattread

GreatBug, that sounds like a problem with the query string. I would try including the wp-config.php, then below that include your actual template file, index.php from your theme, instead of just the WP index.php.

use the <!--more--> tag.

put that tag where you want the “more” link to be displayed, and on the front page it will display only the text up to there.

<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=10'); ?>

that will give you a list of post titles, with links.

Well, unfortunatly you can’t really do that. You can use a font face “at rule” in CSS, but browser support is very weak, if any at all. IE is the only one that has ok support. But here is how you would do it:
@font-face {
font-family: somerandomfontname;
src: url(somefont.eot);
}
However you need to use an OpenType font, not True Type font. Microsoft’s WEFT software can convert TT fonts though.
The best, and really only way to do this, is to use images. 🙁

are you including wp-config.php instead of wp-blog-header.php?

http://wiki.wordpress.org/get_links
make sure the ‘show_images’ is set to true. However from what I understand the image will replace the link text. So I think you’d be better off using CSS to add the bullet.

gahazzah, is your index.php in a different folder than your WP folder?
If so you’ll need to modify the wp-pass.php file that sets the cookie as follows:
setcookie(‘wp-postpass_’.$cookiehash, $_POST[‘post_password’], time()+60*60*24*30, “/path/”);
notice the extra “/path/”. this will be the path to your index.php file. so if your index.php is in your root dir it would be “/”. If it was in a dir named blog, it would be “/blog/”. and so on…
Again this is assuming your index.php is in a different directory than your WP folder (wp-pass.php).