monkeypup

The easiest way to do this, in my opinion, is just to show only the day and month. Then, you need not specify the year. OR, you can fake it. Here’s what I mean:

First, you want to find the spot in the loop where the date is called for. It will likely look like this:


<?php the_date('buncha stuff in here'); ?>


or


<?php the_time('buncha stuff in here'); ?>


Replace whichever one you find with this:


<?php the_date('m-d', '<h2>', '</h2>'); ?>


Today, that would output: 5-12, rather than 5-12-06.

If you wanted to make it seem 2090, then do this:

<?php the_date('m-d', '<h2>', '-2090</h2>'); ?>


which would today output: 5-12-2090

If you need more instruction on where to find the loop, or what the loop is, respond to this thread and I’ll walk you through it.

This happened to me and it killed me! For the longest time. I tried every damn thing I could find in the codex and on google to fix it, and nothing worked. Then, based on a suggestion (from Lorelle, I think), I checked the wp-admin options page and found that my site was listed as www dot sitename dot com rather than sitename dot com (notice the lack of www), which is what I always browsed to. I removed the www, saved it and boom! All was well. If you can’t change it there, you can do it in your mysql database.

May not work for you, but it worked for me!

I am struggling to do this myself, but I think I can help.
Check this link out.

It’s a section on the Codex about Multiple Loops, with customization to call different posts as you describe. You’ll need to get familiar with the wordpress loop (the php that calls the posts), but that’s in the same link if you scroll up.

Hope it helps.

Alright, me matey, here’s what ya do. Look in the php of your archives page (usually archives.php) and look for the php code that tells the archives to appear. It should look like this:


<?php wp_get_archives(); ?>


It might, however, look like this:


<?php wp_get_archives('some numbers or modifiers'):?>


What you want to do is change (or add) the modifiers.

For instance, you can do this to get the last 12 months:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12'); ?>


To do what you want, make it this:

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=4'); ?>


If you want to learn more about the Archive function, check it out on the codex:
Here

Hope that helps.

A file called .htaccess is usually in your root wordpress folder, whether you know it or not. If you get that message, it means that you manually need to change it.

But that’s a pain in the ass.

Here’s the easier way to do it, Falke. Assuming you are the person with ftp access and control for your site, open up your root folder and look for .htaccess. Don’t see it? It might be a view problem. This varies from ftp client to ftp client. Try to change the view to see it. If you can see it, skip the rest of this paragraph. Don’t have one? No problem. You can create one. Open a text document and save as x.htaccess, making sure to save as “all files” and not .txt. Okay. Upload that badboy to your root wordpress folder. Then rename it to .htaccess

Change the properties to allow the modification of that file. In most ftp programs, you can right click the file and click properties. This will allow you to “chmod” the file, which really means changing the properties, more or less.

You want the “chmod” properties to be 666. Then, when you update the permalinks, all is done for you, with no need to change this on the back end.

For more on this, the codex has info on permissions, and specifically the permissions of .htaccss.
Here: Linko

Hope this helps.

To address question one: Did you recently change your theme? This is usually where the php call to the author is generated. If you can give a link to your site, we can help you better.

To address question two: Me not smart enough.

Round about line 170 in your wp-login.php file, you will see this:

$redirect_to = 'wp-admin/';


Change that bad boy to this:

$redirect_to = 'index.php/';


Should work ya fine.