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Under plugins in your dashboard, click on editor and then click on “NextGEN Gallery” in the right hand side (You can probably get to it here: http://www.magarciaguerra.com/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php?file=nextgen-gallery/nggallery.php). Search for “if ( $this->options[‘galShowSlide’] )” and then add two forward slashes to the beginning of it like this //if ( $this->options[‘galShowSlide’] ).
That tells php to ignore that line of code.
Save the file (make sure the file is writable by your server) and see if it makes your slideshows work.

The way I handle this is to create a new page template in your theme’s root directory. Call it “page-template-whatever.php”.
In that new file, you can add this code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: YourTemplateName
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content">

	<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

	<?php query_posts("cat=27&showposts=5"); ?>
			<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
				<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

				<div class="post" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
					<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->

					<p style="margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: -8px;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><strong><?php the_title(); ?></strong></a>

					<?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

			<?php else : ?>

				<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
				<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

			<?php endif; ?>

	</div> <!-- end #content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

The top part just tells WordPress what the template name will be, and when you write/edit your page, you can select this as a template and it will process this code.

Basically, this is a static page that gets the most recent 5 posts that are in the category with ID of 27. This is just an example. Feel free to look in the codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) on how to modify this to suit your needs.

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Hi ninjon,

For the splash page with recent posts of all your blogs, I would just bring in the rss feeds and use php to parse through them and display the title, blurb, and a link to the full post.
If you have php5, this is pretty simple to do.

As far as wp and phpbb, there is this that I’ve heard about recently: http://www.wp-united.com

Hi bcreighton,

If I understand your question correctly, you could probably set up an if else in the single.php template page that says “if the meta key $sidebar_number = 1 then include sidebar1.php”, etc. for each sidebar version. Then, in your post/page, make a plugin that lets the user choose (from a drop down select list for example) which sidebar they want, and then when they save their post, insert the sidebar version as a meta key/value pair (custom field).

I think that should accomplish what you are looking to do.