Alvaro Degives-Mas

If you don’t mind manually indicating / marking a post (or page) for inclusion in the content highlighter / slider, you might want to give Smooth Slider a spin.

Essentially, at the time of creating / editing the post, you define the slider’s illustration (if at all you use a slider image) in a custom field, create (if you want a separate slider text) the text that appears in the slider (else, use the default excerpt or the first X words/characters), then mark the post for inclusion (it’s just ticking a checkbox) and voilà – you’re done.

The manual method is a bit less intuitive if you have a bunch of authors if you want their work to automatically appear, but in a single author environment it’s very simple, effective and visually neat. Uses Javascript, not Flash.

Have you read the templating / customization instructions to have a personalized template set up which survives plugin updates? If you want a specific layout, you’ll have to define a template, first.

I’m not sure why you post your question here, regardless of your self-bump, which by the way is a no-no around here. People are busy enough offering volunteer input on a volunteer support based WordPress and related plugins support forum to have to wade through “look at me” posts popping up left and right, courtesy of the impatient.

Now, getting back to why I’m not sure what made you post your question here: Amember is a commercial plugin, and support for it is offered on its website to its customers; log in to the Amember support section and try posting your question there.

You have a far better chance of getting more helpful replies there, than here! Good luck.

If you use the PixoPoint Menu plugin, use:
<?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();}; ?>
It’s a good idea to wrap that in a div of its own, e.g.:

<div id="menubar">
        <?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();}; ?>
    </div>

That way you can more easily address additional things about the menu’s styling and position.

Also, given the enormous ecosystem of plugins out there, many different plugin authors have different support methods; in the case of PixoPoint (by Ryan Heller) you’d want to check the forum.

Glennfun, I think what you mean is that you want a page with a “dry” listing of posts in a certain category, and you don’t want to even show that there’s a technical facility to comment.

Thing is, that’s a theme issue – it’s not the Category Show plugin.

What you want to do is to copy your page template with a different name (e.g. nocommentpage.php) and in that “new” page template take out the PHP code segment that shows the comments (and, when applicable as in your case, that they’re closed). Then, in the WP page administration part, you set the page on which you have the Category Show list to use the “new” page template. Don’t forget to change (or add, if it doesn’t have it) at the very top of your new page template the ever-important comment that identifies (i.e. names) your new page template, as appearing in the drop-down list of selectable templates.

If all this seems to you like it’s written in a foreign language, start reading up here on how to change or create template files. It’s one of the most flexible and powerful parts of WordPress!

Either way, what you want has nothing to do with Felipe Tonello’s great plugin.

The difference is that one is practically frozen, while the other is in full development. Don’t believe me – read it for yourself.

The Multi-Level Navigation plugin is, for purposes of using it on a WP install that is kept up-to-date, to be considered increasingly derelict. Anecdotally, and if you’re into WordPress plugin paleontology, MLN was a successor to the now defunct Suckerfish WordPress Plugin.

Keep track of the PixoPoint Menu plugin, which is the plugin that is current, and evolving (with tons on the horizon to the point of being almost entirely rewritten).

Which brings me to a final point: make a habit of checking out the plugin author’s site for information on plugin currency, as not every plugin author necessarily tracks development via the WordPress support forums.

There are a few membrship plugins out there, e.g. WP-Member (this is not “free” as in “free beer” – you have to pay to use it) but the problem presently existing with that plugin (release v2.3.1) is precisely the custom registration fields and registration forms; there are some very limited custom fields options, and integration with other registration customization plugins (e.g. Register Plus) is very difficult, not to say impossible out of the box.

On the upside of such a solution, the integration with PayPal (bonus: automated recurring membership renewal payment handling!) is very smooth.