Max

Hi Tracie,

It looks like I inadvertently led you astray. Sorry! After reading your reply, I did some digging, and found that I think I’m only seeing the “Category Exclusion” settings page due to another plugin (“Ultimate Category Excluder”) that I think my colleague must have installed at another point. Sorry to have needlessly raised your hopes! Since you’ve apparently quadruple-checked to make sure the slug doesn’t have a typo, I’m not sure what other suggestions I could offer (already did enough damage anyway just trying to help w/ your issue in the first place :-/ ). Best of luck!

Maybe you could edit the template (Settings – > Blog-in-Blog -> Template) and surround the HTML contained there with a <td> and </td>. That would make each of your affected posts a table cell, and then put the shortcode inside the <table><tr> </tr></table>. (I’m not sure if that actually works, though.) And it would affect all your Blog-in-blog blogs (in case you’re using it for more than one category).

Or maybe try different CSS strategies (e.g., use floats, or display set to “table-cell” or “inline-block”) to try to achieve the same effect.

Good luck.

Hi albertorrent, the part with thumbnail_size=125x125 (or whatever size you choose) goes in the shortcode, which is the part that looks something like [blog_in_blog category_slug='my-category-slug' num=5] and which you probably have in one (or more) of your pages. The %post_thumbnail% part of the template just tells it to display on the Blog-in-Blog posts in the first place … the size is handled with the shortcode. At least I’m pretty sure that’s how it all works. ?? Hope this helps.

Hi thefruitfly. I too was confused by where this “admin page” was for the longest time (esp. since was so often mentioned in the installation instructions in order to exclude categories from the homepage). Anyway, my apologies if the following comes across as patronizing (though I personally, as a newbie, would have appreciated finding such hand-holding before almost giving up):

From your WordPress dashboard for your specific blog, on the menu at the left, there is a link called “Settings”. One of the menu items inside/under “Settings” is “Blog-in-Blog” (if you have the plugin installed, of course). Click on that. From there, you should see an interface with five tabs in the middle of the page: Category, Pagination, Template, Misc, and Help (plus a “Donate” link). If you go to “Template”, there’s a large textarea with the HTML and template tags in it. From here you can remove / comment out / edit the parts that refer to date and author (in my case I wanted to remove the avatar and instead include the post’s featured image instead). I didn’t need to edit php files to get the B-in-B posts to finally look like I wanted.

I hope this helps, and again my apologies if it was over-explanatory.

I doubt this is your problem, but ya never know: I noticed that when I went into “Settings > Category Exclusion” (this is before I noticed the special settings page just for “Blog-in-blog”) and clicked the checkbox for “Exclude from Archives?” (for the Category that I also wanted to hide from the homepage and feed), the page with the Blog-in-blog shortcode no longer displayed the posts from that Category (I got the “There are no posts …” message instead). Everything worked after I unchecked “Exclude from Archives” again. This seems like a bug to me, but who knows, I’m a WP newbie.

Anyway, if you have that checkbox checked, perhaps that is the reason you’re seeing this issue, and if not, sorry if I raised your hopes and/or wasted your time. Hope you figure it out!