barista

I think I solved my own problem. I have the break-out-of-frames plugin. When I turned it off, the problem stopped. However it’s strange that it would do this only on pages and not on posts.

I think it might be your browser settings. I have Firefox and it doesn’t do this for me. It just opens a small new window. Although I haven’t tried this, maybe right-click on the HTML button instead. If it pops up a menu, just hit open in new window, or whatever.

I’m pretty sure there’s a plugin for this. It sets up private categories that only certain people can read. I was just going through one of the plugins directories today and I believe I saw that in the description. I didn’t d/l it so I don’t know the nuts and bolts of it. Maybe it will help you out.

I’ve been doing a little playing around and noticed a few things. In the Classic theme folder, there were no archive.php or archives.php files. I copied and pasted them from the Default theme folder, and now my archives page works – without having to create a static page. I did get an error regarding searchform.php but when I copy/pasted that (and search.php for good measure) the error went away.

I chmod-ed (made writable) the archive.php and archives.php files so I could rework them in the WordPress Theme Editor. I think I can tinker with them and make them looking spiffy – with the regular sidebar. That way I can eliminate the searchform.php, probably.

It might be the theme you are using. I just upgraded from 1.2 to 2.0, and I’m thrilled with all the plugin gadgets and such. On my old version I had the archives on a separate static page, so I came here trying to figure out how to do it with the “Write Page” feature.

The link you supplied (thank you) didn’t work when I was using the Classic theme, but it did (more or less – no sidebar included) with the Default theme. I think for the Classic theme (and maybe some others) I will have to create a static page again.