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I was looking for really simple themes a while ago and found a few on this site – https://www.easternwest.com/

There’s plenty easternwest have made that are really nice, but these two are the closest to what you’re looking for…

https://www.easternwest.com/humble-dark-wordpress-theme/
https://www.easternwest.com/humble-a-very-simple-wordpress-theme/

I was having exactly the same problem too, but your final method fixed it just fine. Thanks!

True https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/about/svn/ tells you how to do it, but it doesn’t tell you what to do it with. I use PhotoShop and notepad and dreamweaver each and every day and typing command line code into any of them isn’t going to get me very far.

I knew nothing about SVN and command line code scares the shit out of me. I definitely wasn’t sure what app I’d have to write all that command line stuff into. Would it just be the Windows Command Prompt box? Who knows – I never found out.

I figured for every app reliant on command line input, there’s a free GUI that makes it easy for code-ignorant folk like me to get it to work, so after a bit of a google I found RapidSVN – https://rapidsvn.tigris.org/, which I worked out how to use in a fraction of the time it would have taken to type half of those command lines, and I soon had my plugin uploaded.

The basics of RapidSVN, to get you going are…

• install it
• right click on ‘Bookmarks’
• click ‘Add Existing Repository’
• paste in the URL sent to you by WordPress for your plugins SVN location
• The above step will have added a new Bookmark
• Right click on the new bookmark and choose ‘Checkout New Working Copy’. Another new bookmark will be added, for the local version
• Once it’s checked out to wherever you choose locally just add your files to it, edit them, whatever’s needed
• Once you’re done adding/editing stuff to your local version, right click that version (not the live svn one) in your bookmarks and choose ‘Commit’
• You’re done, you files are now in WordPress’s SVN repository

Hope that helps someone!

This plug-in unfortunately blocked all comments, including my own, from my blog. IT in fact broke the whole comment functionality. It’s a shame as it’s a great idea and I’ll keep checking it if it’s upgraded to see if ti works because it definitely blocks spammers – it just blocks everyone else too. Try it though, it might work for you.

Cheers everyone ??

@ mikka – that theme I was using as my portfolio I called TMRW v2, and was a customised hack based on a really nice simple theme called Yelloh that I’d found. You can see how how my site used to look when I originally created this post here.

Since then though I’ve created my own completely custom theme (TMRW v3) which was always my intention anyway. It’s just a little nicer (hopefully) and easier to see what the site’s about from an initial glance.

Chances are I’ll change it again soon anyway – getting your own website right is one of the more difficult things for a designer to do ??

upekshapriya, you couldn’t have posted that at a better time – it works perfectly ??

<?php
global $more;
$more = 0;

$page_cat = $post->post_title; //copy the page title
$page_cat = strtolower($page_cat); // make it lower case only
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$page_cat);

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('category_name='.$page_cat.'&showposts=5&paged='.$paged);
?>

You can do it without a plugin if you want. Just some code based on the following to the template where you want the list appearing…

<?php query_posts('category_name=work&showposts=5'); ?>
<ul>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<li><?php the_title(); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

that will show the first 5 posts from a category called ‘work’. Not exactly what you asked for in your question, but it’s definitely how to just ‘List Posts in Category X’ ??

Cheers 4K. I found that a few hours after I’d asked the question too ?? It looked promising at first and I think I’ll use it for a while but I forsee problems if my site I’m working on takes off.

The WP AJAX Edit function works by checking the IP address of the user, not the username.

If all goes well people from various academic places, university courses etc, will be registering on my site. And I’m not entirely sure but I think a lot of them, say a bunch of people from a specific university, may all have the same apprant IP address? That means they’ll be able to edit each others comments and that’s deffinitely something I don’t want ??

In the short term I think I’ll use it though.

But for the long term, does anyone know of any hacks that work by checking the username and not the IP address?

I folks. No replies so I’m guessing there were no ideas? I figured it was worth at least one bump up to the top though to try give it another chance?

Here’s hoping…!

I’ve also found this plugin called WPB-PayPal 2.1 you can buy for $25, which seems to me like it has a few more features.

Anyone tried this one vs the EasyPayPal one in the past?

I’ve just tried the EasyPayPal one and while it is a fantastic plugin there was one bug which means I can’t use it for what I want until it’s fixed. I’ve emailed the author so I’ll let you know what happens. Maybe I was just using it wrong ??

To be honest I don’t think it matters. But I’m probably very wrong about that ??

I’m deffinitely no coder so I tried it in a few different places, and it seemed to work just as well wherever I put it.

As long as it’s somewhere between the <?php require_once('admin.php'); at the top of the file and above the <?php include('admin-footer.php');?> at the bottom it looks like it works.

I ended up putting it just beneath the line of code that says wp('what_to_show=posts&posts_per_page=15&posts_per_archive_page=-1');

Hope that helps!

Cheers for the advice guys. Role Manager looks useful and I may end up using on my project anyway now I know it exists, but it didn’t limit the view in the ‘Manage’ tab to just the posts that the logged in user had created.

I found this though after some more digging, all you need to do is add this into the edit.php file…

if (!current_user_can('edit_others_posts'))
$author = $user_ID;

And it works perfectly, If I log in as user1 I can only see posts I’ve created as user1!

I found it here https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/96045?replies=4

Ma8thew, that EasyPayPal plugin looks like it may be perfect for what I need! Good find, and thank you very very much ??

If anyone else has any other suggestions though I’d still love to hear them.