motoed

Thank you. That took care of what I was looking for it to do.

Does anyone know, Is there an official place where I can post a “feature request” for this function?

I have two ideas I think many people would find beneficial, but I have no idea how to make them happen.

1) When selecting a “page” and you go to the page, the submenu expands (I might be able to figure this one out in my template…. I can probably do this for my site, because I only have ONE page witha submenu, so in my sidebar I could an “is_page” function to toggle the subs on and off…. but if I had more, it would be much more complex)

2) A way to “order” my pages. Right now, they only display in chronological order. (again, I assume this would be done with the custom Fields somehow.)

I really need to bone up on PHP so I can actually dig in and help out!

Thanks for all the help (and warnings)

I understand guys…and I realize that I’m probably jumping the gun on this. I’m just anxious to get this working. I googled some link to the function to listed the options for it.

Which is where I found the Depth=1 (which I assume will only show the top level pages and not the subpages.)

mdawaffe – The other stuff that you aren’t sure if I’m trying to do, is part of the “current” (as of a coupel days ago) code for that. I just tried to find a place to “add” the depth option to what was already listed in the template.

Is there any documentation on how to use this yet?

I tried some more testing on this and it still doesn’t work right on Pages.

If it’s a Post, it’s ok…. permalink settings or not. But not for pages. Anyone have any thoughts?

Is WordPress not supposed to work this way?

– Ed

Ok… I have MOST of this working now with some side help, but I’m still having a problem with my template.

I want to make the home page not have “the loop” on it. I tried doing this code on my index.php page but I get an error.

(I cut out DIVs and unrelated code)

<?php if (is_home()) { ?>

Code about the Home Page

<?php elseif (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
\\\\ Post Code from Kubrick \\\\\
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>
\\\\\ Page not Found Kubrick Code \\\\\\

<?php endif; ?>

I’m getting this error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSEIF in
(at the first ElseIf line)

Is this a syntax issue that I’m writing wrong or can’t I do what I’m trying to do?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
After I get this fixed, I can move on to screwing up the next part of the template ??

– Ed

I tried that… and then I get page not found messages all over the place… Admin pages are all set to /wp and show up as not found.

I’m surprised that more people aren’t interested in doing this. If someone wants to give me some clues on where to go with this, I’ll gladly post a tutorial online somehwere… or write something for the Wiki… I just need some guidance.

Always willing to help out! I just don’t always know the way to go first…

I have a thought on this, someone tell me if I’m off base or not.

I could duplicate the index.php in my theme folder and name it “loop.php” and use that for my page where all my “chronological” posts are located… my Blog if you will, then on the index.php template page… change that to be whatever I want it to be… Managed by hand if I want for now.

Or is this just not necessary and I’m going about this all wrong.

Ryan,

Do you have any information on how pingomatic did this? Is it part of just the theme design?

I’ve tried Drupal and found it rather clunky and unfriendly… I think it’s because it does FAR more then I want it to.

Maybe I should re-write my original question. What about not having the WP install in a separate directory like I mentioned above… what about just not having “the loop” on the index page?

That’s probably about the same thing, huh?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good solid reliable CMS that I could look at?

I’ve done a little looking and really haven’t found anything I liked and was hoping to keep it all in WordPress.

I think I’m following all this…
Ryan: I’m using Kubrick 1.3 (your port) I turned off the Front_Cats plugin… and still get the same results.
When I modify the Sidebar.php file in the kubrick folder (through the theme editor) The changes aren’t visible (even deleting everything inside the <div> and just putting TEXT in it.
I wasn’t quite following some of hte php.ini that you and beel were saying about. I haven’t made any revisions to your Kubrick index.php regarding the sidebar… so I would assume it should pull the kubrick sidebar.
(my Kubrick Theme index.php file starts with this code:)
<?php include "header.php"; ?><?php include "sidebar.php"; ?>
(I moved the sidebar to the top of the content to make floating it to the left side easier.)

I think I’m following all this…
Ryan: I’m using Kubrick 1.3 (your port) I turned off the Front_Cats plugin… and still get the same results.
When I modify the Sidebar.php file in the kubrick folder (through the theme editor) The changes aren’t visible (even deleting everything inside the <div> and just putting TEXT in it.
I wasn’t quite following some of hte php.ini that you and beel were saying about. I haven’t made any revisions to your Kubrick index.php regarding the sidebar… so I would assume it should pull the kubrick sidebar.
(my Kubrick Theme index.php file starts with this code:)
<?php include “header.php”; ?>
<?php include “sidebar.php”; ?>
(I moved the sidebar to the top of the content to make floating it to the left side easier.)

I’m not using CVS, I just download the straight ZIP nightly files.
I guess it would probably make sense if I was using CVS. (I’m a newbie to CVS and WordPress, but I’m learning quickly.)
Thanks again Beel

Really?
Shouldn’t the Theme Template files override the original WP files? That’s the way it works for index.php and a few others, right?
(not trying to argue, just trying to understand. Thanks Beel for the help. At least I’ll be able to make the change I need now.)
** If I removed sidebar.php from the WP Root, (or renamed it) would it use the sidebar.php file? I hate to do that if I decided to switch to a theme that didn’t contain a sidebar.php file though.