billbab

Yup, same magazine. I use firebug all the time (though it seems to make firefox a bit unstable on the mac). I’ll give that a try let you know what i find.

I’ve build an online magazine using Revolution Magazine. It doesn’t meet your cost criteria, but i found it easy to use and it does a lot. My mag is at https://www.kenalu.com

Here’s the pastebin url
https://wordpress.pastebin.com/m40b03b6e

Oh, and is there a book you recommend. I’m reading a number of online PHP and CSS references, but most seem to talk only about syntax. I dug into the W3C tutorials a lot before I asked the question and looked at a lot of sample code in the WordPress documentation. Didn’t really get close.

The W3C examples seem particularly unhelpful and kind of ugly.

Hey, it works, how cool is that. Somehow my formatting got hosed a little, but I’ll find that problem.

I hadn’t enclosed the final curly bracket in a PHP statement as:
<?php } ?>

Thanks so much for putting up with my 101 question.

One last question. why would one elect to use the
echo ‘<div id=”bigfeat”>’; approach? It seems to be the common way to stuff html inside php

Tried the change you suggested, got: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/p/e/y/peyotebill/html/kenalu/wp-content/themes/revolution-magazine/header.php on line 91

There are only 90 lines in header.php so I assume it’s looking at the next line of home.php after the function is called, no idea where it’s finding a ‘$’

I pretty much suspected that, I thought that was why you wrap them in echo statements like:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
echo ‘<div id=”bigfeat”>’;

I’ll try your suggestion though.

Really? I would thing the statement would have to be inside the PHP tag to execute.

Thanks, I think you’ve put me on a better path. I probably should learn PHP more before I try to do this stuff, but I guess I’m learning by doing.
Actually, while I was hoping for a response I found and tried to use a conditional with if (is_home()) like this:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
<div id=”bigfeat”>
<div class=”bigfeatleft”>
<div class=”featured3″>
<?php $recent = new WP_Query(“cat=26&showposts=1”); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<h2>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(__(‘Read the story »’));?><div style=”clear:both;”></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”bigfeatright”>
<div class=”video”>
<h2>Featured Video</h2>
<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”https://www.youtube.com/v/EfLXV5Iekxc&rel=1″></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”https://www.youtube.com/v/EfLXV5Iekxc&rel=1&#8243; type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”300″ height=”216″></embed></object>
</div>
<div class=”newsletter”>
<h2>eNews & Updates</h2>
<p>Sign up to receive the latest breaking news, as well as all of your other favorite headlines!</p><form id=”searchform2″ action=”https://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify&#8221; method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘https://www.feedburner.com&#8217;, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520’);return true”><p><input type=”text” value=”Enter your email address…” id=”s2″ onfocus=”if (this.value == ‘Enter your email address…’) {this.value = ”;}” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ‘Enter your email address…’;}” name=”email”/><input type=”hidden” value=”https://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=1396718&#8243; name=”url”/><input type=”hidden” value=”eNews Subscribe” name=”title”/><input type=”submit” value=”GO” id=”sbutt2″ /></p></form>
</div>
</div>
</div> }
?>

But that gave me a syntax error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/content/p/e/y/peyotebill/html/kenalu/wp-content/themes/revolution-magazine/header.php on line 318

So I looked at some other examples and realized that the HTML statements inside php code generally have echo statements. So I surrounded all the HTML with Echo’s, and got pretty much the same errors. I know you didn’t sign up to teach newbies PHP, but do you have any suggestions?

Thank you, thank you. I switched to pretty permalinks and presto–all better.

How does one do that?