Ryan Fitzer

Very clean and simple. Great job. Two things I think might help:

1. Remove the bottom border on the selected tab in the top navigation.

2. Style the headings of the sidebar a liitle more.

But even without those it’s looks great.

And both CSS and The markup validate!

This is how I accomplished this type of thing.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/76805?replies=5

Could you specify exactly what functionality you are looking for? There my be a better way to take care of your needs. I don’t quite understand why you would need a page to not be linked.

Good point but I would not like the user to have to write any code. This also wouldn’t help if I had a rule for something like this:

body#bigpost #sidebar {
display:none;
}

This would enable a user to hide blocks of content whenever they needed. Now I understand that it could be possible to keep a layout fluid enough to accomodate knocking blocks down when the preceding block is a certain size but this gives much more control to the non-technical author. Thanks anyway.

Here’s the loop from index.php.

<div id="content">

<div id="home">

<h2 class="pagetitle">Current Exhibitions</h2>

<?php query_posts('cat=1&showposts=2'); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<div class="entry">

<div class="postthumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php post_image('', true, true); ?></a></div>

<div class="posttext">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>

<h3 class="center">Not Found</h3>
<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

I couldn’t really explain the perameters for you without going back and reading the link again (I have a few things I have to go take care of). But with this use of the arguments I have it set to never use a default image (the posts in this category always have images). I understand your pain though, the documentation is a little confusing, but keep going through it and it will eventualy make sense. It’s a great plugin, that’s for sure.

As far as the image is concerned, it’s from a local photographer an shows an arm with bullets tucked under a cloth wrap.

Good luck. And if you come up with a great way of using it, post back here.

Good job. That Blix theme can be a tuffy to alter.

I have a simple (I think) idea for a plugin:

Have a dropdown menu on the write post page that could change the id of the body tag on the index page everytime you publish a post. What I’m thinking about is being able to change your front page layout (by swtiching out the body tag to reference a different CSS rule) depending on the content of each post (of course, the index page would only show 1 post at a time to accomodate this). Then one could use something like <?php variable_id (); ?> as the id on their index.php body tag. Sound interesting? This would support being able to change ones layout depending on the importance of the post.

Along with the suggestions above, to backup your database you have to first activate the database plugin in your plugins panel. Then go to manage > backup.