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It does seem like the easiest way of doing it. Unfortunately it’s not working for me – I’ve tried it and it only downloads the index page, but not the pages or archived posts, meaning I can view the index page offline but not the rest of the content. Glad it works for someone, anyway!

Thanks for the link – I’ve looked it into it but from what I can see it seems it won’t work because WP generates links ‘on the fly’ not to actual pages (HTT Track just downloads the blog’s current first page, not the archived posts). I’m happy to be told otherwise if that’s the case. Can anyone else help with this?

I’ve been looking at this problem again after sidelining it for a couple of months as I was busy elsewhere. Thanks, everyone, for your responses so far but I am still having the same problem…

I installed a new theme to see if the same problem would occur, and it did. With a little more investigating, I think the problem lies with PHP includes in my text widgets. I have a large number of links in various different categories and don’t want them all displayed in one dropdown list, so in a couple of places on my sidebars I used text widgets with PHP includes inside them, in order to display lists of links from a specific category only, ie:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0&category=24&show_description=1&after=</br>&orderby=url'); ?>

For whatever reason, IE doesn’t display these lists properly and it’s this that messes up the layout. However, when you use a text widget containing just regular text, without the PHP include, it works fine.

Hope this makes sense! I still don’t know how I can get around this and get IE to display the links in my widgets properly, but I thought pinpointing the source a little more might help someone answer.

Typo! “Swin” should be “Skin” but it’s too late to edit the post.

Thanks for your help but I’ve had a look into it and read the Wiki article and am none the wiser. I’ve tried changing padding to margin and it doesn’t seem to work so I’ve just changed it back to how it was. Not entirely sure exactly which of the sidebar elements I was meant to be altering so I don’t know whether I was simply doing it wrong or whether the problem lies elsewhere.

My CSS is here.

Hi,
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I’m still having problems. I had a look at the Loop Codex entry and based on what I read tried to modify the code on my Recent News page to solve the problem. I was trying to get it to display only the entries in the Recent News Category, which is category 39, but it doesn’t seem to be working, and I’m still getting the same “Sorry no posts match your criteria” message as before.

How/where am I going wrong? The code I’ve now got is this:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
include('header.inc'); ?>
<h1>Latest News</h1>
<p class="left">
All the latest news and information on Helen's career...

 <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
 <?php if (is_category('39')) continue; ?>
<div class="post"><h2 id="post-<?php the_id(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	   <h3><b> posted on <?php the_date('l jS F Y'); ?></b></h3>
<div>
		  <?php the_content(); ?>

</div>
<div class="feedback">
 <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
         </div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
 Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

 <?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(' :: ',' << previous',' next >> '); ?>
<?php include('footer.inc'); ?>

I’m afraid Kex’s solution doesn’t work for me – I’ve tried it a dozen times and it just gives me: “parse error, unexpected {, line 878”

Done, and still it doesn’t display properly for me. Have asked two more people who say it’s fine on their machines. Bizarre.

Done that and it’s still showing up unstyled in all my browsers (I have Firefox, Netscape and IE). Strange. Will try using a different computer or asking someone else to have a look.

Thanks – I have followed your advice, but unfortunately I am still having the same problem.