eric

in the admin interface under “reading” you can select how many posts to show. having said that it doesn’t work for me. although i suspect i broke it with some hacking. try it out… archives you always get, and if you want to get rid of links, calndar etc., just edit those things out of your index.php

i like it! i guess if you had the four bottles somewhere in your menu it would be ven cooller and make xircom happy ?? also for my taste, the lack of contrast between text and background in the post is a little hard on my eyes. good stuff though.

Looking good! Could still maybe use some space between the categories (blogs shae reads etc.) and that vertical line on the left (maybe addd some padding-left to #menu ul li in the CSS?). I’m using Firefox on WinXP BTW. HTH.

If your main page was PHP, it would be easy – use an include to insert the “news” page (or even a specially generated news page with only the last few posts) anywhere in the main page.
However, I see you have a flash animation, and I dunno whether flash and PHP get along or not… if the news stuff is to replace the flash, easy. (PHP include tutorial here). If not, I have no idea whatsoever. Hope this helps some anyways!

Scribbler works for me in Firefox/WinXP. Brilliant design!

Simply installing WP in your root folder seems easiest, no include needed – any reason not to do it like that?

You mean a static page?
Do you want it to be inside of WordPress (so you can edit it through WP)?
If yes there’s a few different ways, try a search for “static page” or something. I’ve recently tried junesix’s method described in this thread, works for me.
Otherwise you could just create some static HTML files in a text editor and manually insert a link to it in your index.php
Hope this helps.

You need to create a .mo (or .po) file from the template called WordPress1.2POT.
All the info is in the Wiki, (wiki.www.ads-software.com), just search for “l10n” or “localization”.
You will probably also need a tool like poEdit or similar. I just downloaded poEdit from SourceForge and used it for the first time today. It was really easy to install and learn.
I’m sure people would be happy if you make the .mo file available to others when you are done, and they will be happy to support you if you need!

Junesix: thanks!
Only one catgeory can be hidden, but perhaps one could still have many ststic pages by creating a “static” category, hiding that and creating subcategories within it, one for each page?

Looks good to me in Firefox and IE. Just one minor gripe: if I set a large font size (which I always do), part of the text in your header (“There is nothing so impossible in nature..”) disappears under the menu column.
You could probably change that in the CSS by making the header live in a box that ends where the menu column begins, then the text should wrap instead of sliding under the menu.
@ the developers: Actually, the default wp-layout.css does the same thing, so perhaps it should be changed? Or is there a reason not to that I’m missing? Not a huge deal but good for accessibility on sites where people don’t hack the CSS all that much.

This might be crazy and is completely untested… but how about

1. putting <?php the_date(etc.) right before <?php the_content(); ?>, separated by a space and enclosed in brackets, strong tags or whatever
2. setting
   p {
display: inline;
}
   in the stylesheet
3. changing the footer to use div or something instead of a p tag so the above won’t affect it
4. inserting a
   .story {
[fiddly code here];
}
   bit into the stylesheet to fix whatever the “display: inline” hack has broken

Most likely your problem with the wiki is because your user name is too short, it happened to others with short names and me as well even with 4 letters. Dunno why, but making up a longer user name seems to fix it.

It’s still happening… consistently now. Anyone else got this problem or is it peculiar to my server / installation? (1.2 beta)

Ah, the infamous voice-family hack! I read about it before but it confused me too much. This simple demo is much clearer, so thanks for the link! I’ll give this a try soon.
The only thing that still confuses me is that the problem occurs in Firefox 0.8 – IE would not surprise me but I thought Firefox was standards compliant?

Aahh.. sorry, I forgot to say… same thing happened to me and I eventually fixed it by swapping the “menu” and “content” blocks around in the index.php file, i.e. everything from <div id="menu"> to the corresponding </div> goes before <div id="content">, instead of after like now. This is probably not the most elegant solution, I don’t even know why it works but it does. I’ve tested it in Firefox, IE and Netscape.
I’d be interested to hear of more elegant solutions if you or anyone else find one (to recap: 2-column layout with content on left and menu on right, each in a div, currently the only way I can get them side by side is by listing the menu div before the content div in the HTML – otherwise menu moves below the content). Any pointers appreciated…