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Jeremy, thanks for replying. It’s good to see that level of support! But I think my solution is just to stick with the clean-and-simple-contact-form that works out-of-the box.

You can check if that function works properly by leaving a comment on your site and checking if you receive an email.

I do. It has been the case throughout.

you could use a plugin like this one to configure your WordPress installation to use a specific email service

Okay, but it’s apparently simpler to use the clean-and-simple-contact-form plugin I set up yesterday.

If the function appears to be work properly, …

This sounds useful if I devote the time to puzzling it out. Chasing my ISP, setting up alternative emails and so on are good to know about should the alternative plugin stop working. But I can’t see the justification for taking the time to do all that just now.

you can deactivate Jetpack’s Contact Form by following the instructions here.

I had already deactivated it before Jorge mentioned it. He seems to have missed that bit. Jetpack is still installed and active.

Now this might be helpful…

I have deactivated the Jetpack form and installed clean-and-simple-contact-form-by-meg-nicholas. It works.

That said, Meg’s form has this simple shortcode
[cscf-contact-form]

and this is what I had for Jetpack’s:
[contact-form][contact-field label='Name' type='name' required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field label='Comment' type='textarea' required='1'/][/contact-form]

Nope. And I’m hoping it’s not a conflict with some other sort of plugin.

I saw that discussion, but reckon it’s not me as I haven’t got Google Docs at all.

I’m thinking it’s more likely the bit about message writers having to have a previously approved comment, which I’ve got enabled on my site.

But this Jetpack thing seems troublesome enough that if there isn’t a simple fix I will just use some other contact form.

Ah, good to know!
That gets it close enough!

Thanks!

That helps part-way.
There’s some other issue involved.
The Default Poster lists users by nickname. If the WP Nickname differs from the WP Username, Postie seems to expect the nickname to provide access.

Same error here, but cannotfind anything in the Postie Settings with the label Admin Username.

I see only Authorized Addresses, Mail Userid, Default Poster, and other clearly unrelated labels.

Am using v1.5.8

does that mean I’ll get a similar failure if my username is Winter but my nickname is wntr? Postie seems to think my nickname is the admin username.

So, for example, this snippet based on what Frumph wrote goes in the index.php template, and lists the latest post in category 1:

<div id="content">
<?php $blog_query = 'showposts=1&cat=1&paged='.$paged;
$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

But since I want to have the latest posts in categories 1, 2, and 3, I need to do something other than
<?php $blog_query = 'showposts=1&cat=1,2,3&paged='.$paged;

Probably something more like the repetition Stiand set out.

Maybe there’s an answer out there waiting for me to find it.
Something to do with the Loop, I know. But a bit more explanation here would certainly help everything fall into place.

Wah-hey, first bit of debugging I’ve ever done!
Well, insofar as it counts.
Back to the original problem of the Loop and categories now…

So I may have found an error in the Codex tutorial?

I must be getting better at this…

I’m trying to get this snippet working by pasting it into index.php.
If I paste the entire snippet at the top of the file, the resulting page containers and font are misaligned.
Since ‘How you want your post to look here:’ seems like it might refer to the CSS page styling, maybe the ‘<?php endwhile; ?>’ is meant to be somewhere further down the page, after some styling code.
If I use the default page style (Kubrick), and paste the first 5 lines at lines 3-7 as follows,
1 <?php get_header(); ?>
2 <div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
3<div id=”cat22-technology”>
4 <?php
5 $blog_query = ‘showposts=1&cat=22&paged=’.$paged;
6 $posts = query_posts($blog_query);
7 while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
and the ‘<?php endwhile; ?>’ after what might be styling, I get syntax errors.
On top of that, if I add a second copy of the snippet with a different category, the result only shows the most recent category rather than each.

I don’t understand this.
I can’t drop this anywhere on the index page and have it work.
I haven’t been able to get it to work with more than one category.
I don’t understand the meaning of “how you want your post to look here”.
Can anyone offer further explanations?

Fixed.

Two things:
1) the login name requires the addition of domain info, e.g. @domain.net
2) activation.

I opted for the iframe/footer/refresh mode.

Both of these could be mentioned in the options page, no?

So an appreciative thanks to you for the pointer to the Blog_by_Email Codex page.