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# MtnExile

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Can anyone tell me how to build a restaurant menu?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-tell-me-how-to-build-a-restaurant-menu/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-anyone-tell-me-how-to-build-a-restaurant-menu/#post-2264152)
 * Yes, I did: [Easy Restaurant Menu Manager](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-restaurant-menu-manager/).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: SimpleModal Login] How to avoid wp-login page?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/#post-2601775)
 * According to the plugin page, 39% of users say it’s broken in 3.2.1. Possibly
   it’s not as harmless as you think. At any rate, it does nothing to fix my problem
   with SimpleModal Login.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: SimpleModal Login] How to avoid wp-login page?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/#post-2601772)
 * Well…I installed it, enabled it, and it immediately screwed up my entire site.
   Luckily, I was still able to trash it.
 * Thanks.
 * Next.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: SimpleModal Login] How to avoid wp-login page?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-avoid-wp-login-page/#post-2601743)
 * And this will do…what?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Need help with syntax of conditional category statement](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/#post-2432529)
 * Thanks, that did it.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Need help with syntax of conditional category statement](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/#post-2432400)
 * That’s functioning correctly–by which I mean, it’s drawing from the custom field
   if the post is in category ‘3’, and printing only the comment count otherwise.
   But it’s also doing something screwy, and danged if I can figure out why.
 * You have ‘From ‘ preceding the custom field value; but it’s printing out like
   this:
 * > The New York TimesFrom |15 comments »
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Need help with syntax of conditional category statement](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-syntax-of-conditional-category-statement/#post-2432370)
 * That gave me a parse error:
 * `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'`
 * I also tried this
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_category('3') ) { ?>
           <p class="attribution">From the <?php if ( function_exists( 'get_custom_field_value' ) ) get_custom_field_value( 'Attribution', true ); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment &raquo;', '% comments &raquo;'); ?></p>
       <?php } elseif (is_category('-3') ) { ?>
           <p class="attribution"><?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment &raquo;', '% comments &raquo;'); ?></p>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * and that didn’t throw an error, but it also didn’t work. I doesn’t print out 
   the custom field value.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SimpleModal Login] [Plugin: SimpleModal Login] How to use this with get_comment_reply_link?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-use-this-with-get_comment_reply_link/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simplemodal-login-how-to-use-this-with-get_comment_reply_link/#post-2429493)
 * Fixed it. It helps enormously if you’re actually applying the change to the right
   line, which should have been
 * `$link = '<a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-login" href="' . esc_url( wp_login_url(
   get_permalink() ) ) . '">' . $login_text . '</a>';`
 * So it’s working perfectly now. One last question: is there a way to accomplish
   this without changing a core file?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [A couple problems with date archives](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-couple-problems-with-date-archives/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-couple-problems-with-date-archives/#post-2410873)
 * Brand new site. Still in the development stage, so this is something that never
   has worked the way I want it.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Advanced Custom Sort] [Plugin: Advanced Custom Sort] Gives endless loop of posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-custom-sort-gives-endless-loop-of-posts/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-custom-sort-gives-endless-loop-of-posts/#post-2407256)
 * Yes! That worked. Imagine…using a while loop will actually call multiple posts.
   Who’da thunk?
 * /sarcasm directed at self
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Advanced Custom Sort] [Plugin: Advanced Custom Sort] Gives endless loop of posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-custom-sort-gives-endless-loop-of-posts/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-custom-sort-gives-endless-loop-of-posts/#post-2407254)
 * Well, that helped, but we’re still not there.
 * This is the entire block of relevant code:
 *     ```
       <div class="static" id="casePosts" style="display: block;">
   
           <?php $acs->query_posts(array('group_name' => 'Case')); ?>
   
           <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
   
               <h6 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>
   
               <div class="entry-content">
                   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                   <p class="readMore"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">More »</a></p>
               </div><!-- .entry-content -->
   
           </div><!-- #post-## -->
   
       </div>
       ```
   
 * You can see, I’ve made the change to the $acs query_posts, but I still just get
   the title of the page instead of the posts in that category. It’s not recursive
   now–it only prints it out once–but it’s still wrong.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to display posts of one category without dates?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-posts-of-one-category-without-dates/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-posts-of-one-category-without-dates/#post-2407782)
 * I hadn’t realized it was creating a special class, but it was.
 * `<div id="post-145" class="post-145 post type-post status-publish format-standard
   hentry category-case">`
 * “category-case” is the relevant class. All I have to do is
 *     ```
       #leftColumn .category-case .info
       	{
       	display: none;
       		}
       ```
   
 * and the problem is taken care of. Thanks for the suggestion.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to add a list of posts to a page?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-a-list-of-posts-to-a-page/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-a-list-of-posts-to-a-page/#post-2407048)
 * But I DID use a loop looking for only a certain category:
 * `<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=3'); ?>`
 * This is what works for the sidebar; it doesn’t work in a page. And if WordPress“
   knows” that what I want is an About Us post, WordPress is wrong.
 * So my original question still stands: how do you generate a list of posts on 
   a static page?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Home page not showing up in the menu…what am I doing wrong?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-not-showing-up-in-the-menuwhat-am-i-doing-wrong/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-not-showing-up-in-the-menuwhat-am-i-doing-wrong/#post-2398957)
 * Bagel, thanks for trying to help. I really do appreciate it, because it can be
   difficult to get answers to very basic questions. As it turns out, I did some
   more looking at other themes and some Googling, and figured out what to do to
   get the custom menus working. After that it was easy.
 * I should also say that you’re wrong to think I’m “confused.” What I am is pig-
   ignorant. I don’t know enough to be confused about anything.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Home page not showing up in the menu…what am I doing wrong?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-not-showing-up-in-the-menuwhat-am-i-doing-wrong/)
 *  Thread Starter [MtnExile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtnexile/)
 * (@mtnexile)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-not-showing-up-in-the-menuwhat-am-i-doing-wrong/#post-2398898)
 * There is no such feature in my dashboard menu. Under “Appearance” there are “
   Themes,” “Widgets,” and “Editor,” but no “Menu.”
 * And no, I simply copied the code from another theme and it seemed to work. I 
   told you this was a very basic question.

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