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PART 2:

i looked again at your code, and realized i can’t read it… (you know about the backticks, right? i know, it’s hard)

i think i’m wrong in my above post… that won’t work.

the main problem is, you’re outputting li’s with no wrappping ul tags.

to demonstrate: a normal list structure needs to be:

<ul>
<li>
something here
</li>
</ul>

so you have apparently got

<li>
something here
</li>

with no
<ul>

</ul>

around it! does that help?

a-ha…

the documentation says you need to put the events into a list format, like this

<li>
<?php ec3_get_calendar(); ?>
</li>
<li><?php _e('Events'); ?>
<?php ec3_get_events(5); ?>
</li>

but since you removed the
ul and li tags, i guess you’re getting strange behaviour? try wrapping ul around the calls for events:

<ul>
<li>
<?php ec3_get_calendar(); ?>
</li>
<li><?php _e('Events'); ?>
<?php ec3_get_events(5); ?>
</li>

</ul>

see does that fix it?

the div id=”wp-calendar”… is nested in a <li> … and that needs to be inside a <ul>

you know what i mean?

will this work with permalinks?

so that you can have sitetitle.com/tag/something ?

In your admin panel, at the top of the menu you should see ‘Options’.
the path should be something like https://totallyout.com/blog/wp-admin/options-general.php

On that menu should start:
General Writing Reading Discussion …. etc

Does it start like that?

yes, eventcalendar is trying to look into recurring events. i didn’t catch on that you are building yours off of that work. good idea.

as for other features, this may be entirely obvious, but having the ability to search events (future posts) would be important.

maybe this isn’t relevant for all but the ability to have type v categorization. because you can have music performance v music festival; and comedy performance v comedy festival, etc. types (festival, performance, exhibition, workshop) and categories (comedy, music, photography, writing)… which could be done with the categories and maybe some kind of folksomony-tagging type tool.

hello, did you ever figure this one out?

i was wondering if it would be possible to create a ‘separate’ search just for future posts…

should it be a plugin?

can anyone tell me what road to go down?

i checked your CSS in the CSS validator, and got a parse error. note at the end of the last class, there is a additional parenthesis and semi-colon. this is the error i got:

Parse error - Unrecognized : );

notice it right above your closing of the style tag. after the last curly bracket: (delete the ); and re-test)

} );
</style>

CSS-validator: https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

tell us how it comes along… fun site!

FYI: ——- i wrote this below before i saw your site link! i leave it here for reference for others.

it’s a shame that IE5.0 is still circulated on Mac OS X. it’s woefully out of date. it is most likely the CSS indeed.

look for a backward compatible wordpress theme that uses tables for layout. if you can find one that suits.

or, are you handy with CSS? replace the layout dividers of your theme with tables. here’s some how-to’s an a little more on the topic of tables for layout. sometimes it must be done!

even your man mezzoblue from the CSS zen garden recommends tables in some cases, like yours. you don’t have to go nutz and nest tables, and use spacer gifs! just a simple framework to control display.

https://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/13/gasp_tables/
https://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/15/tables_oh_th/

https://www.evolt.org/article/Tables_or_CSS_Choosing_a_layout/25/21429/
https://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/layout_tables/

i think the toughest challenge about using wordpress to manage events is recurring events (every wed poetry slam from october to march) and events that last over multiple days (like month long exhibitions).

i don’t think wordpress could do it.

but it would be fine with one-off events, i guess.

i saw this and i just had to pipe in! too funny!

.pl is poland, not a perl file.

my email at work, for example is .ie and that’s ireland.

there’s a whole list of domain suffixes here:
https://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html

solves at least part of the mystery.

you posted a while ago, so i hope you’ve been able to solve your problem. but i just wanted to say, i got it working by listing them seperatly:

li.page_item {
background:blue;
}

li.current_page_item {
background:red;
}

if you want to style two classes together you need to use commas between classes:

li.current_page_item, li.page_item {
padding:5px;
}

did that work for you?

answering back to the me i was a few hours ago:

you make new file (for example sidebar-page3.php) to be a custom sidebar, calling a specific ID number, like this:

<?php
wp_list_pages('child_of=3&title_li=<h2>' . __('In this section') . '</h2>' );
?>

then include this in a custom template, instead of the regular sidebar:
<?php include ('sidebar-page3.php'); ?>

seems tedious, but it can work.

looks like you have a solution, i’ve tried it out and it works well.

i am using another smippet which does the same thing in my sidebar to get subpages to appear:

<?php
global $id;
wp_list_pages('child_of=' . $id . '&title_li=<h2>' . __('In this section') . '</h2>' );
?>

my main problem with both is that NEITHER work on the subpages themselves- meaning they don’t display ‘sibling’ pages; and i want to use this to make a persistent menu.

btw- i’ve seen the folding pages plugin, but i don’t want a collapsing menu.

any simpler options that i’m overlooking?

FYI: in case anyone is using this thread to build Author Templates, or include author information on Archive Templates- there’s aa new codex page on this topic. Much of the information comes from this thread, and Kafkaesqui’s helpful advice. Thank you.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Author_Templates

Any edits and contributions welcome to speed up the process of getting this document beyond ‘draft’ stage!

I added it here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Author_Templates

I linked to it from the Tasks page, and from Theme Development, but I assume it should be linked from elsewhere when it is ready.

I marked it as in need of editing!