dansinch

Well, this is for my own site. There would be a couple other people working on it, but they’re involved in the same project I am, so it’s not like there’s a client to worry about. I’m doing a bunch of other custom stuff anyway, so I figured if there’s a way to do it, I’m all ears.

Still, I hear what you’re saying. The last thing I need is to have to upgrade my plugin every time a new WP update comes along.

I have to say though, having worked on way more complex content management systems, this is one thing that would put WordPress that much closer to competing with full blown CMS packages.

Until I find a good solution I’ll probably do that, but I’m sure there’s a way to do it all dynamically. I guess I need to start looking into creating my own plugin:)

Actually after further testing it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the Flash files.

I reconfigured WordPress to only show 1 post on the main page (and the latest post doesn’t contain any Flash) and it still crashes. The weird thing is I can view any single post page without a problem. It’s only the main page that causes Apache to crash.

The only difference I can see between those pages is the side bar. There is a lot of stuff in my side bar. The archives links go pretty far down and I have a lot of categories and a long blogroll. Could that have something to do with it?

I figured out a way to show the default number of News posts, using query_posts(‘cat=6’); instead of the method I was using. So if I have it set to “Show at most 10 posts”, it will now show the last 10 News posts and not just whatever posts happen to be News posts out of the last 10 total posts. If that makes sense.

So that’s a little better than what I had before, but I’d still like to have more control. So I tried this plugin, but it doesn’t seem to work on pages outside of WP. I set the News category to show 5 posts, which works fine if I go into the News category in the Blog section. But on the News page (which is using The Loop to pull News posts) it’s still showing 10.

Any way around that? Do I have to define the news page as a category page or something first?