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Try <?php echo $s; ?> I think that will output what you want. Or just the $s bit if you don’t want to print the result.

Chances are it will be a CSS nightmare though (I struggle with just getting two divs side-by-side..)

Another way could be to use a home.php with nine get_posts calls each getting one post with varying offsets. This would mean you would need a more conventional page for single view etc (and i dont think paging using home.php would work as you are not using the true ‘loop’.

Very nice, is it compatable with the all main spam killing plugins? (i.e Akismet and Spam Karma 2).

Could you do it with one loop and use it to generate nine unique <div>s which you could then float left, right etc as you wanted? (Sounds a little to easy so i doubt it ?? )

Using MySQL Admin or similar will only back up your database (post contents etc). You will need you use an FTP program to download the files in you WordPress folder from your server.

Can you use the excerpt-reloaded plugin instead? It lets you use whatever tags you want.

Are you or have you previously use the BAstats plugin? It looks like tables for that. (So you can empty them if you don’t want to keep your stats).

Do you mean an image on your page (if so, maybe try this or do you mean the one that appears in the address bar of browers such as Firefox and Safari?

If you look at your last post (Freebie…) in single view, the sidebar breaks. If you look at the previous (Digi Scrap…) post in single view it works. So.. there is most likely an error in the content of your freebie post. looking at the source code it looks like you have an extra <div> or a missing </div> in that post.

[Edit: looks like it is the <div align="center"> which either needs removing or closing.]

The RSS should be automatically be generated automatically by WP. For more information and examples have a look at the codex WordPress Feeds page.

Depending on what your problem I, there are a number of articles on getting started with WP in the codex. If you still are having problems, please can you describe what you cannot do/ what is going wrong etc as detailed as possible (the more we know the more people can help you). Or if you are really stuck, try giving these guys a try – the installs are all done by long-standing and trusted WP forum members.

You will be fine. All posts are always accessible with blogname.com/?p=number even if you have nice permalinks enabled. Where you will have troubles is if you change your nice permalinks at a later date (from blogname/something/nice to blogname/something/different/to/before).

You should have a hosts file as well as hosts.lpd in that folder. It is hosts that you want to edit. With a clean install mine reads:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost

What you are planning should work though. As an IP address might change, setting up a new dynamic DNS might be easiest.

There is a full how-to here and an alternative (which I knew nothing of) using NetInfo Manager.
[Note you will probably be needing to log in with admin rights to do this]

You need to use the public IP address in the WP options boxes then edit your computer’s hosts file to load the address locally.
Try adding 127.0.0.1 your.ip.address
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