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Thanks mfischer2! This also works:

function counting() {
		global $wpdb;
		echo $wpdb->get_var("SELECT count FROM term_taxonomy WHERE term_taxonomy_id = 'your_category_id'");
		}

But must confess I am a bit lost on how to only count posts that were published.

I have been looking for the same thing for a long time. After much trial and error, here is a solution that works well for me. Pretty code and no plugin needed ??

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
if ($cat->category_parent == "1234") {
echo '&bull; <a href="?cat=' . $cat->cat_ID . '">' . $cat->cat_name . '</a>';
}
}
?>

Where 1234 is the ID of the category parent you want to display children of.

Thanks everyone at this thread for showing me where to look.

Exactly the same here. I’m upgrading to Ella now, hoping the problem is fixed in the mean time…

Yes, that is the idea! When I add <!--more--> tags manually, html tags are not stripped from the excerpt — It does not really matter whether I use the_content() or the_excerpt(). But I still do not understand how to exclude this part from the single page views…
hmmm.

I think there is a problem with your box-width (Explorer has a particular non-standard way to interpret padding and width so the total width of sidebar and main column is too large and the sidebar column is pushed below your main column as a result). Make #page in your css file wider, or #sidebar less wide. Usually does the trick. Or look here: https://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

here’s how the blocks on the front page are made:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="box" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="<?php echo c2c_get_custom('style');?>">
<h2><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(''); ?><div class="clear"></div></div></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>


There’s a single.php but this page only refers to the_content()

…this is why I thought it would make sense to use the_excerpt(); I thought there would be a tag like the_rest() ??

Maybe I should have used custom fields instead? (hmm. not so user friendly to have to put content in these)

What if you would use the get_custom plugin to echo the information (https://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/30/plugin-get-custom/) and than use css drop down menus (https://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/) to reveal or hide the info?

Femke

Oh… sorry, HandySolo!
here’s the page with the excerpts:
https://www.geuzen.org/test

and a few of these excerpts link to single pages saved in wordpress, such as:
https://www.geuzen.org/test/?p=42

The small image + the text “Given today’s political climate we’ve decided to exhume this classic project” is redundant on the zoomed-in page, so I am looking for ways to exclude that part.

Hope this is clearer?!

Femke