jrodgers

thanks
and…
yes, not my first site, but my first with wordpress and any kind of php, “what’s new” is the primary blog page, but the events, opportunities, paint and a couple of others use a customized loop to show specified categories, even in the what’s new, if you check you will not see any events listed as they are listed separately

i find wp very powerful but sometimes i need tweak some code or add my own functions to get it to do whats asked for, which is not as easy as it sound considering my understanding of php is terrible, but I’m getting better

Also, I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I still get quite a few visitors running IE6 and I can’t figure out how to test the site in older IE versions. If anyone has access to IE6, I’d really appreciate a browser report.

if you are on windows you can install a virtual pc and use it for testing ie6 compatibility

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

i like it, fresh and edgy without being irreverent, blog is written well content is good, cartoons are great and CANADIAN too! multiple wins!

Your mockery of the Bible is unspeakable.

no he spoke it but was hardly mockery, and this is not the place for that discussion

wish you had comments turned on tho, would have liked to comment on a couple of postings

web hosting has nothing to do with your local desktop system, what is important in a web host is what web support they provide
php
asp
jsp
.net
coldfusion
bluedragon
etc.
your local system is only required to have software which can interface with the host company, an ftp for transferring files, a browser for viewing web pages..thats it, so i’m not sure what the issue is here?

some themes have tehm in by default, if your theme is widgetized go to teh admin screena nd look at presentation>widgets, this will usually let you customize the sidebar content, with some themes if you do not have a customized sidebar tehy include one by default, you can get around this by getting the widgetize anything plugin and putting a blank widget in the side bar

in your themes directory add this page

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blank Page
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<!– put content here –>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

then oin teh admoin gotop manage>pages and select the page you wan tto customize, on the right ahnd side is a dropdown which is defaulted to ‘Default Template’ select teh blank template created above as the page to be used for this wp page. that should do it

thank you

in the style.css of your template/theme look for an entry called post and add

border:1px solid green;

change teh thickness, style (solid, dotted, outset, inset…) and colour to suit your colour scheme

for the side bar look for something along the lines of
#sidebar ul ul

depending on your them it might be
#l_sidebar ul ul
or
#r_sidebar ul ul
and do the same thing

see also
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

create a template from one of the standard blog pages and set it to have only one post or use thisd as a starting place and configure as needed

1)change events to something like home or firstpage etc

2)where it says cat=11, change it to p=the id of the post you want to show,
3)save it as someTemplate.php
4)write/create a page and set the default template, option is on right hand side about half way down, to be the template name you gave it in step 1
5)set your home page under options; select static page and point it to the page you created in step 4

<?php
/*
Template Name: Events
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<?php
$query= ‘cat=11’; // concatenate the query
query_posts($query); // run the query
$more = 0;
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php require(‘post.php’); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php posts_nav_link(”,”,’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php posts_nav_link(”,’Next Entries »’,”) ?></div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”><?php _e(“Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”); ?></p>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

adding
$more=0; before the loop corrects this

no accessing the on wordpress site theme was fine, but the home site of the poster, stealth settings, which i will not post as my norton still shows the atempts to download teh file, has the issue, and as a result, I would not trust the theme

thank you

i got it working with
`
<?php
$query= ‘category_name=events’; // concatenate the query
query_posts($query); // run the query
?>’

but the minus(-) does not seem to work with category name, is ther other syntax for excluding a category name?

i also saw that to exclude a catergory you include a minus (-)
so would

<?php
 		$query= 'cat=-events'; // concatenate the query
 		query_posts($query); // run the query
 	?>

exclude the events items from the page?

thank you very much for your time and patience.