dminky

((1. For using the category-x.php templates you don’t need any plugin! WP recognizes them automatically (since 1.5) and they work perfectly both in 1.5.x and 2.0.))

Woops, I didn’t make myself clear. The plugin I was using was to called something like “posts per page” and allowed you to have a different number of posts per page for each separate category. The one you linked to looks pretty similar to what I was using before, so I will give it a try. Thanks. ??

((2. Why would you want to display posts of a category on Pages? instead of using the built-in feature of category templates? It just doesn’t make sense to me…))

I know what you’re saying, because prior to upgrading, this section of my site was just a category template.

But my reason is (and I know this is kind of silly) I’d like this category to be listed among the “Pages” section on my sidebar. In my situation, the category I’m dealing with is a collection of of journal entries from a trip I took, and I’d like to separate it from the Category Archives because it is more than just a post archive.

It also makes permalinks much nicer for this category if it is a page, because I could direct people to mysite.com/page rather than mysite.com/category/archive/

So I guess basically the reason is because I’m not trying to make a category archive, but a separate page that includes all the posts from this category.

I hope that makes sense… :-\

Thanks guys, that helped a lot. I’ve gone with Moshu’s suggestion and wrote up a new page template.

And this has given me another idea, which has raised another question. ??

Back in WP 1.5, I had a few separate Category pages… category-3.php and category-4.php, which defined separate rules for those categories. It also required a separate plugin to use, which of course I removed to install WP2.0, and it just occurred to me that it would be better organized for me if I turned these separate category designs into Pages as well, instead of making multiple category templates.

So, my question: How would I set up a page template to call up a specific post category’s entries? (And I’ll ask now so I don’t have to ask later if I can’t figure it out — I want to have these posts sort descending instead of the WP default of ascending, as well as show all the posts on one page instead of dividing them among many pages. How can I do that on this page as well?)

Thanks again! ??

Hi,

I’ve been really wanting to use the built-in theme editor as well, but I’m somewhat confused as what to do. I’ve read all the documentation on this, but something isn’t working right.

I’ve set my wp-themes folder to 775, along with all its subfolders and files. I’ve also set .htaccess to 666. But even following all the directions, I still get the message “If this file were writable you could edit it” when I try to use the built-in editor. What am I doing wrong?

I’m also a bit unclear as to the security issue this poses. In another post https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/50863?replies=1 we’re recommended not to set permissions as high as the theme editor asks us to. So does this make the theme editor a major security risk, or am I missing something here?

If someone can answer these 2 questions I’d be very grateful. Thanks.

Sorry if that wasn’t clear. ?? I shouldn’t post right before bed.

Right now, all my category archives sort older to newer. So when you load the category archive you would see post 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 25, etc.

For one category only I would like them to sort newer to older; 118, 115, 112, 107, 102, 98, 95, etc. I want my other categories to continue sorting them the other way.

My guess is that this is possible with a category template, but I don’t know what I’d have to do to make that one category have a distinct sort order.

Thanks

ahh nevermind, I figured it out — I had 2 versions of my theme installed, and it wasn’t recognizing the one I wanted. I deleted the copy and it worked fine.

Hey sdollen, did you ever figure out what you did? Because the same thing is happening to me, and I have no idea what I did… it worked fine one day, not find the next.

Oh I just noticed — when I edit or try to write a new Page, it no longer has the option to select a certain template for the page. I guess this has something to do with it. But I don’t know why, or how to fix it.

Many many hours of searching and I never found that page… Thanks! ?? That helped so much!

Thanks a million! ??

Oy… how can I have been so stupid.

Well the problem was that Dreamweaver was only saving local copies of the file, even though I was telling it to save the remote file.

Problem solved.