A Series of Qs

Well, I’m currently working on my own site and am developing a theme for it using WordPress (I probably won’t release the theme because it uses alot of stuff I need to manually edit and isn’t great for just applying to a blog)

However before I can complete it I need to know a couple of things, mainly related to Searching and Viewing by Category and Date etc.

On my site I have a column for listing posts and this list changes (the rest of the site remains the same) when searching or browsing by category/date etc.

So when listing posts by category etc. I want a heading above the posts listed to say soemthing like “Currently searching/browsing in/for/by” and then the date, category or search term that is being broswed. I have a seperate category.php and date.php etc. for each of these by the way.

To browse by date on my site I use the default calendar so you click a day or month to see what was posted in that period, what tag (if any) do I put to show the current day/month being queried.

Also when browsing for category what tag shows the category being browsed.

The only tags for these things work in the Loop but I need a much moe obvious way to remind the user what posts they are viewing because the results pages are so similar to the home page.

Also is it possible to list posts and reply to posts using a popup window that appears when you select a link that may say “View Pop-Ups” and how would this be set up?

Keep in mind I’d like to do this from scratch and not just lift heaps of code from say the default theme as this doesn’t help me understand what to do (which I’d like to know).

PS: What are the tags for a comment loop?