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If it’s blank, it might be a PHP error happening locally. Try looking at your LAMP error logs. Perhaps you don’t have your PHP’s ini file configured properly? Hard to tell… but a completely white screen, in my experience, means there’s a fatal PHP error and you have errors suppressed in your ini file so you aren’t seeing the error. The log will tell all.

Hey victorfq… welcome to the world of WordPress. Hopefully the five hours you have vested are good ones with positive results. And it’s really great to have CSS and HTML under your belt. One other thing you’ll want to learn is PHP if you don’t already know it. It’s an OOP language and is the core of WordPress… it’s good to know if you are doing a lot of custom things!

To answer your question, you are looking for get_posts. It’s a simple function that will, well, get posts according to a set of arguments you pass it. One parameter you’ll want to use is “posts_per_page” and set that to 5 to get the 5 latest posts. But you’ll see from it’s default usage that 5 is already the default… so chances are you’ll just need to use this line of code:

$posts_array = get_posts( $args );

After that, follow the example marked “Latest posts ordered by title” but of course customize the $args to fit your own needs. This example simply shows you how to “Loop” through your findings and display the results on the page.

Let me know if you need some more help in setting this up!

The domain name IS changing… you are changing the name from http://12.345.678.999/~tempsite to your current domain name, so you’ll need to do something. The article I sent you shows ALL steps… if you aren’t physically moving files, then skip the steps that require you to copy/paste your website and database and just go down to “STOP RIGHT THERE!!!”

Also, you can do these steps right before you pull the switch on DNS.

@esmi… out of curiosity, isn’t it better to change the values in the database to reflect the correct domain rather than using PHP define variables? Isn’t that extra overhead on the server?

Use custom fields instead of tags.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields

There are many plugins that make using custom fields much easier, if you’re not the programming type.

You must be using a MAC. Typically the padding on a MAC differs from PC because of the “prettier” font MAC uses. 🙂

Glad I could be of some help! You should mark this as resolved so others won’t try to help.

.sidebar select {
    width: 125px;
}

125 looks about right to me… any bigger and “Categories” goes onto another line.

Here is a blog I wrote all about your issue (because I’ve seen it so many times). It’s a bit lengthy, but that’s because it has a lot of detailed info on how (and why) things are done. When you strip it down to it’s basics, it’s super easy and only a few steps.

http://www.designprinciples.com/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-installation-to-another-domain/

Velvet Blues is a great plugin for simple sites, but it doesn’t do everything.

It’s because the Categories and Archives widget creates a <select> field for it’s drop down menus and by default a <select> field is set to display: inline. The Pages widget is wrapping it’s <select> field with a <form>, which by default is set to display: block.

So, set a css style that says:

.flexipages_widget form {
    display: inline;
}

and you’ll be in business!