andymike

Another quick way of accomplishing alternating comments:

<ul>
<?php $i = 0; ?>

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $i++; ?>
<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"<?php if($i&1) { echo 'class="odd"';} else {echo 'class="even"';} ?>>

Then just use CSS to define your “odd” and “even” classes.

Thanks muelheim,

Could you explain a little bit further how to build the sql-query?

I appreciate your help.

I am having the same exact problem as he pointed out in the long description.

Is there a solution. I consider this a bug, I would appreciate if someone could report it to the tracker.

You are looking for CSS styling, you need to insert a div around that list and add this to it’s properties:

list-style: none;

If you are confused by this do some googling for “css” or “list styling”

Figured out a solution:

If you are going to use it as a CMS with a couple categories, like the example I am giving just create Page Templates that query the posts from the specific category:

<?php query_posts(‘cat=2’); ?>

put that before the loop, and then use all the same template tags you would use if you were creating a custom category page. Then you can use links to these Pages without the /category/ because they will be Pages.

This is only useful if you are linking to your categories from a “static” navigation menu. If you are linking to the categories dynamically with a Template Tag WP will use the /category/ in the link.

Hope this helps someone.

I wrote a tutorial on this issue:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/79882

Can anyone tell me if this will have implications, like possibly breaking WP in the future?

You can see a live demo of this by going here:

https://www.freelovemd.com/section/ask-lovemd/

and

https://www.freelovemd.com/ask-lovemd/

both work fine. So I would like to change it permanently to the second one, but I am worried it will cause problems in the future.

Anyone?

No I haven’t changed that, and I am running 2.0.5

My permalink structure is :

/%category%/%postname%/

Is that why this works?

I just don’t want to worry about it getting screwed up later.

One thing that works for me is this:

Leave the category base alone.

When you are linking to the category in your navigation just make the link:

mysite.com/mycategory

instead of

mysite.com/category/mycategory

The category still works fine and displays how you want it. The only problem would be if you had a page with the same name as your category. If not I can’t find any conflicts.

Obviously doesn’t work if you are using a template tag to display the links to your categories.

Let me know if you find any conflicts with this method.

I am looking for this same functionality. Anyone find any plugins to accomplish this?

Fixed, sorry about that.

Using CSS is your best bet. It will benefit your site tremendously in the long run. Start searching for some basic tutorials or even go to the bookstore. I would recommend Stylin With CSS by Wyke-Smith.

That’s funny I wrote a similar article two days ago:

Convert XHTML/CSS To WordPress

Thanks for the kind words.

Hopefully as more categories are added the empty sidebar will begin to fill up.