km

Awesome, that works a treat! Thanks!

Actually if I use <?php query_posts($query_string); ?> – that works better (but still doesn’t show the stickies first).

I guess I need to add some additional options to query_posts to force it to display the stickies first?

Kim

Nah it’s a commercial theme…

If I put <?php query_posts(”); ?> in front of the <?php if(have_posts()) : ?> line – it does then display the sticky posts first, however it then displays every post on the site… (on the archive and search pages)…

I think the same applies to the default theme (it doesn’t have a query_posts function on the archive and search pages)…

Cheers,
Kim

Thanks vtxyzzy.

It’s working OK for my index page… but just not in the Archive or Search pages.

Query_posts doesnt seem to be used on these pages (for my theme anyway). This is what I have:

<?php $category = get_the_category(); // get the active category information ?>
<h2>Archive for <?php single_cat_title(); ?> (<?php echo $wp_query->found_posts ?>)</h2>
<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post() ?>
etc...

I’ve just started using one of their Templates. Their documentation was a bit average (it showed how to install the template and configure it – but was missing a few crucial instructions such as changing file permissions on some of the directories within the template (for image thumbnails, uploads, etc). The template I purchase is also lacking a few critical things (it’s a classifieds template, and does not have a field for price) – and I’m having trouble getting support from them regarding this (i suppose it is a feature request rather than a bug). I’ve needed to edit a lot of the code to correct some bad english translations.

Anyway, I think they make good templates – but you need to be pretty savvy editing php code to tweak it how you want… and don’t expect too much from their support.

K

Ahh, thanks. Will disabling the Pingbacks prevent the remote site/robot from linking to back to our post? Or just prevent us being notified about it?

I have hidden the category from the dropdown cats by using:

?php dropdown_cats(‘0′,’All’,’name’,’asc’,’0′,’0′,’1′,’0′,”,’36’); ?

The last parameter ’36’ is the category ID that I want to hide.

I cant find anywhere in my index.php template where is_category or list_cats is. I can find the_category and the_content… not sure how to make these conditional though. Hmm :/

Or should I be editing wp files not in my template directory?

Kim

Thanks. Next question – how do I put the content and sidebar in a container?
By editing the index.php?

eg:

table width=”800″ border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″
tr
td ALL CONTENT BETWEEN GET_SIDEBAR AND GET_CONTENT? /td
/tr
/table

?

Kim

decided to use the drop down cats on the sidebar instead, so this has fixed the problem.

Kim

never mind – all fixed now! ??

anyone?

Excellent – exactly what I am after!! (and the search function as well – that was going to be my next request). Thanks ??

Question – you have a /archive/ where it lists everything – how do I get that? So far I have only accessed my archive through the sidebar where it lists the months. Rather than that I’ll have a link to “Archive” where it utilises your archive.php file instead.

Ok, fixed the style sheet issue… so all of the above can be ignored, now!

On the sidebar.php, the lists for the Categorys, Archives, Links, etc. are using this: [?php wp_list_cats(‘list=0’); ?] – how can I make that list come through with [li] and [/li] before and after each category? Do I have to hard code it somewhere, or can it be done through the sidebar.php or style sheet?

Kim

Found the problem I think.

This was in the stylesheet:

ul {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;

I deleted that – and have got a little further now (it seems to have been overiding the #sidebar ul li)

Kim

Hmm, still can’t get it working.
I’m learning as I go here (haven’t had much CSS experience before).

I have put this in the stylesheet:

#sidebar ul li {
list-style-type:circle;
list-style-position:outside;
}

I take it this means that for the ID “sidebar” any
ul or li tags will have the circle and outside characteristics?

If my sidebar.php file has div id=”sidebar”, but later has div align=”left” – does that cancel out the div id=”sidebar” or does it fall inside it? (eg: do I need to keep putting a new div id=sidebar every time i have used another div tag? Or can I have div tags within div tags? (just depends wher ethe closing /div is)

Anyway, with those entered in the CSS file I still can’t get the bullet points appearing.

The website I am working on is https://www.emfacts.com/weblog/

Kim