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@sterndata thank you so much! I followed the instructions to repair the tables and it returned no further errors. The tables all say repair status OK except for two “wfls_2fa_secrets” and “wfls_settings” which look like those don’t support the repairing function. I will mark this as closed. Thanks again!

Great idea, but the client didn’t have the budget. Maybe I’ll build one for myself for future use.

I did find the Ad Rotator plugin and that helped make things a lot easier for the client:
http://kpumuk.info/projects/wordpress-plugins/ad-rotator/

I’ve updated the code a bit, the only change was in the second line. I used ‘category_name’ instead of ‘cat’ and moved the end of the link tag up a few lines…

<?php query_posts('category_name=In the magazine&showposts=1'); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
    <?php // check for thumbnail
    $thumb = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail', $single = true);
    // check for thumbnail class
    $thumb_class = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumbnail_class', $single = true); ?>
    <?php // if there's a thumbnail
    if($thumb !== '') { ?>
    <img src="<?php echo $thumb; ?>" class="<?php if($thumb_class !== '') { echo $thumb_class; } else { echo "left"; } ?>" alt="<?php echo the_title(); ?>" title="<?php echo the_title(); ?>" />
    <small>in current issue</small></a>
	<?php } // end if statement
    // if there's not a thumbnail
    else { echo ''; } ?>
    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

@johnnywhee, I hope this helps:
Copy/pasta the above code into your sidebar and customize the first line of code where it says:
category_name=your super special category

and spaces are ok too. Then when you write your post, customize the following three items for the it.

1. Category: your super special category
   and it must match what’s in the php code!
2. Add two key/value combos:

1. Key: thumbnail
   Value: http://url/to/thumbnail
2. Key: thumbnail_class
   Value: css_class
   The css_class can be whatever you want and it allows you to style the image

I hope that helps!

Thank you so so much! I’m going to try it and will let you know if it works, which I’m sure it will! 😀

So now the question becomes: how to edit the Auto Close Comments script to also auto close a post’s ping_status? I’ll give it a try tonight, but I don’t feel very smart today. :p

Ah, perfecto! Thank you dear, that saved a lot of headaches! 😉