chaplaindoug

Thanks esmi. I will try your suggestion about placing the code in a template file and see how it works. Will notify.

Why not remove the HalleyWordPress post that interrupted this thread? Thanks.

The Nivo Slider Light at link below does most of what I want above except items 4 and transition speed.

Resolved per the above.

Ooops. The discussion mentioned above was at:

https://support.dev7studios.com/discussions/nivo-slider/13-hyperlinks-not-working-on-slider-images

I found a discussion about this at:

The solution was to put a background image as suggested into the css for the nivo slider as follows:a. The css is found in the wp-content\plugins\nivo-slider-light folder. The image should also be placed in the same folder.

.nivoSlider a.nivo-imageLink {
 position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;
width:100%;
height:100%;
border:0;
padding:0;
margin:0;
z-index:6;
background: url(/images/spacer.gif);

}

I found that the hyperlinks work in FireFox but NOT in IE9. They also do not work in IE9 set to compatibility mode. The code for my slider is now:

<div class="nivoSlider" style="height: 310px; width: 425px;">
<a href="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/international" class="nivo-imageLink" target="_self" ><img src="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/foreign1.jpg" alt="test" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodnewsjaail.org/international" class="nivo-imageLink" target="_self" ><img src="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/allcontinents.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/international" class="nivo-imageLink" target="_self" ><img title="" src="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sunneversets.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/national" class="nivo-imageLink" target="_self" ><img title="" src="https://www.goodnewsjail.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/US.jpg" alt="" /></a>
</div>

These folders seem to go away on their own in a little while. Not sure why this behaves this way. But ultimately a non-issue.

Unfortunately, this plugin does not provide much functionality. You can create “groups,” and put people in the groups. But the groups themselves can only be assigned the standard privileges (editor, author, etc.). There is no functionality to limit people to a single page or category. Any other ideas?

Not really looking for a redirect. Want the browser’s address window to read https://www.goodnewsjail.org/national/<name&gt; but actually be displaying another page. In this case all pages of form https://www.goodnewsjail.org/national/<name&gt; I want to point to https://www.goodnewsjail.org/national. I have code on the page that picks up the “/<name>” part of the address and does some things based on it.

UPDATE.
I found that the problem does not exist when using FireFox (versus IE 9). Also, in IE9 if I turn on “Compatibility View” (Under Tools) the problem goes away.

Apparently I can create additional templates per the article:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Page_Templates

This might be one way to have a custom page with widgets for each of my 22 countries. BUT, I still desire an answer to this post. Thank you.

I was able to use the PureVision “Recent Posts” widget on a page template to accomplish the above. However, this is a limited solution.

I want to have a page for each of our international countries (22 of them) on which I list the recent posts for that country (each country will be a category of post). I only have a few template pages on which I can drag an drop a widget in a sidebar. So the general question remains . . . How can I put a listing of the recent posts for a particular category on a particular page?

My chances of finding Windows Server 2008 users in the WordPress forum is probably better than the chances of finding WordPress hosters in the Microsoft IIS forums. That is why I queried here.

In another article I found a suggestion to five FULL permissions to the wp-content (and I assumed wp-admin) to the following users:

IUSR
<servername>\IIS_IUSRS (for example MyServer\IIS_IUSRS)
NETWORK SERVICE

Thanks for the initial tip. However, this article is not helpful for my environment. What I need is information that talks in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 terms, with permission levels of that OS and the users that need those permission levels. The article cited is generic and cryptic and does not provide steps in Windows.