MichaelH

New To WordPress – Where to Start

WordPress Semantics

Actually, thinking about it, a category called Jokes is redundant of the site itself. Maybe just categoires that are “Animal Jokes” and “Bar Jokes”. No sub-categories.

pulls the custom taxonomy name from the page itself

echo get_query_var('taxonomy');

Have used this lately, but might help you:

<?php
//get desired post_type(s)
//get all taxonomies for each post_type
//for each taxonomy get all terms
//for each term display all posts in that post_type/taxonomy/term

$args=array(
  'name' => 'book',
  'publicly_queryable' => true,
  'exclude_from_search' => false
);
$output = 'objects';
$post_types=get_post_types($args,$output);

foreach ($post_types  as $post_type ) {
  $object_type = $post_type->name;
  $taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies($object_type);

  foreach ($taxonomies  as $taxonomy ) {
    $args=array(
      'name' => $taxonomy
    );
    $output = 'objects'; // or objects
    $tax=get_taxonomies($args,$output);
    $tax_terms = get_terms($taxonomy);

    foreach ($tax_terms  as $tax_term) {
      $args=array(
        'post_type' => $object_type,
        "$taxonomy" => $tax_term->slug,
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
      $my_query = null;
      $my_query = new WP_Query($args); 

      if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
        echo '<p>Listing post_type='.$post_type->label . ', taxonomy='. $taxonomy . ', term='. $tax_term->slug.'</p>';
        while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
          <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
          <?php
          echo get_the_term_list( $my_query->post->ID, $taxonomy, $tax[$taxonomy]->singular_label.': ', ', ', '' );
        endwhile;
      }
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();
?>

Might check http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-users/

For posts from last year wouldn’t you need to decrement the year?

// don't need this        $current_week = (date('W')-1);
        $current_year = (date('Y')-1);
        query_posts("year=$current_year&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1");

This would imply wordpress is trying to use the same database twice. However, I set up a new database for this blog (and double checked the wp-config to see I had it refer to the correct database). Does anyone know what’s wrong here?

Double check the wp-config.php file as that is where the database info resides.

Thanks. So is the CODEX too conservative in suggesting incremental upgrades?

Maybe, but it the 1.5 direct to 3.0.1 fails then the incremental approach works.

Or maybe the incremental upgrades are needed only to get up to 2.7.x?

Depends, but you would only know when the 1.5 to 3.0.1 does not work.