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That fixed the problem. Thank you very much.

Where did you find the latest version of Static Front Page? The website home of the plugin says the latest update was in January.

Arne, I turned on Debug Comments. I have the following plugins activated:
BDP Referal Tracker
Exec-PHP
Feedburner Feed Replacement
Optimal Title
Spam Karma 2
Static Front Page
Google Sitemaps
Scripturizer Remix
Search Pages
Text Control
WP-License
Wordpress Database Backup

Thank you for any help you can provide.

It is loaded into apache. Could this be causing the problems? Should I just disable it on my server?

That works! Thank you. It seems like every step I take in PHP comes with two backwords. Thank you again.

Perhaps I am implimenting it wrong because as it stands, I am still getting the post from the first loop. It correctly excludes the one found in category 16, but still does not offset one further. A brief look at my code is as follows:
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=1&cat=-16’); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
// Loop 1
<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=1&cat=16’); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
// Loop 2
<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
<?php query_posts(‘showposts=3&cat=-16’); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if($posts[0]->ID != $post->ID) : ?>
// Loop 3
<?php endif; endwhile; endif; ?>

That works, but it needs to do one more thing, eliminate all posts from category 16 and drop back one as well. The first loop outputs the newest post not in 16, the second loop outputs the newest post in 16, and the third needs to output the next 5 not covered by the first two. Would there be a way to combine all the loops and have it requery and use the ($posts[0]->ID) along the way as needed?

thank you

Well, I currently just have a photo album (CPG) and blog (MT) and then all the rest of the static content pages. I’m thinking that a forum might be in the works in the future but that is not for sure. WP was my initial thought cause I use it elsewhere and like the structure and ease of use as far as updating and changing page content.

Ok, then that brings me to part two of my question: what should be allowed so that the spiders can see it? Is it the cache folder inside the wp-content directory? I’m trying to figure out where this stuff is kept.

Right, I know how to disallow directories though I am unclear on what I should disallow. My site directory is laid out as follows:
/index.php
/wordpress/

My question is if I disallow the wordpress directory will the spider still see the content pages because they are generated via php upon visiting the main page?

Ok, but then what should I disallow in the Robots.txt file? Surly I don’t want the wp-admin and parts of the wp-content indexed for search engines. So what should be allowed and what should not?

How does a site spider a wordpress blog? Could I disallow everything in my wordpress directory and still have the spider find the different artilces–because they are called from the database, or do I need part of the wordpress directory to be accessable to a site spider?

exactly what i was looking for. thank you.

wierd…. it’s back online again