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Update: My email to blog post has just appeared so it is working, just takes a long while (several hours).
One thing though, via email can I attach images?

Still looking to get one of the above blog writers working though if anyone can still help with that. Thanks.

If the theme is widget friendly, you could just put in a text widget and enter the html code to direct to the image.

With regards to the header image, look at the filename of the image you use at the moment. Say for example it is background.jpg and note the dimensions for example 1000×80
Open the style.css file with notepad and find the entry for background.jpg around the header section this is were your header image is. The easiest way to change the header image is to replace the one you have with the same dimensions as the one you currently have. That way you don’t have to change any code. So make your background header 1000×80 and upload it to the themes image folder. This should overwrite your header image. If its not the same dimensions as the one you currently have it will look odd. Of course you can have other dimensions but you will have to change other bits of code.

Thanks so much.

Just one thing, is it possible to show more than just the last 10 posts from the archives without setting the same figure as the main page?

i.e. on the main page I would like to see say last 5 posts, then on the individual archives show maybe 20-25 links?

Ah its okay I fixed the space.
So… that tip jar?

ooohhh that worked alongside redirectify perfectly.
The redirect has done the category page, and your snippet of code has made it just the title, author, comments etc.

You may say you are not a coder, but it works perfectly, as you can see here on my 360 page
https://www.spritesandbites.net/category/xbox-360/

Just one minor thing, at the top it says “archive forxbox 360” it has no space between the for and xbox.
Can I change this value?

Moshu you are brilliant thankyou, that is one weight off my mind as I did not want to change themes again.
Do you have a tip jar?

Okay I have made a little progress. The plugin Redirectify has allowed me to create an xbox 360 page listing the archives for that category.

Now for the trickier bit?

I need to get the archives to show just either the post details (clickable title,author, date, comments) or just a partial excerpt post (like the first line maybe).
Just going to search for archive tweaks ??

Would the plugin “Redirectify” do it?
Just donwloading it now…

Ok thanks you are a diamond

HI Mosh, thanks for your help.

I am not going to change the theme again I don’t think. I have some regulars readers who must be really peeved off with me keep changing things.
I am sure I can find a different way of getting what I need. I guess one way would be to create a normal page and manually add links when I post. I don’t think it would be too time consuming, just a minor annoyance ??

Yes I have a theloop.php

I can’t believe this. I have spent the best part of 3 weeks finding a theme I like and its not going to work.

LOL what a nightmare. All I wanted was a category page *sob*

Back to square one.

Any suggestions for a good theme that is *totally* customisable?

My archive.php only contains

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”primary-content”>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/theloop.php’); ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

If I click the link above you posted and save that, it contains loads of html.

That category templates page is horribly confusing. I think it is out of my league to be honest.

I thought the easy way would be to change the links of the pages but I can’t see how to do this, it only gives option for page title and content.

It could be seeing as the change only happened last Sunday. Although it was a over day ahead and not just one hour.