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I hear what you’re saying. I did pull that from the archive.php in the default theme, and the page data still overwrote it.

The thing is, this is a site for a friend, and I want her to be able to edit her pages through WordPress. So the ‘pages’ function is useful in this case, but I still want posts to show up on these pages. I’m pretty strong on PHP but I can’t seem to figure this out.

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Oh sure, sorry I wasn’t clear…

OK, imagine that I have a Web site with a sidebar that always has news in it. So really, the whole site is powered by wordpress, but there’s only a sidebar that’s “The Blog”. This is included on most pages. The main section is static content.

So what I want to know is, how do I use the pages feature to serve up my static content, and still have my blog show up on the side? For me, the page overrides all other posts in both the main section and the blog sidebar. Does that make sense?

Wow, awesome. Thanks Kafk!

good idea. off hand, can anyone think of a plugin that uses its own tags? I know exhibit creates an <!–exhibit–> tag, and iimage gallery creates a <gallery> tag, but it would be nice to look at some other ones to see if i can find a simpler script to try and emulate.

thanks, but i’m familiar with that tutorial and I’m not looking to make my own quicktags. The <!–more–> ‘quicktag’ isn’t a quicktag at all; rather it’s a tag you put into the post that represents the html code that is output in the post. I want to know how to create my own tags.

or <div><div><div>image</div></div></div>, rather. but you get the idea.

textile allows custom filters?

add_filter() you say? I’m not familiar with that function. where can i learn more about it?

hmm that post came out a little mangled. It makes sense though, what i’m asking?

i understand that. however, with the more tag, you input <!–more–> and it outputs:

<pre>
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</pre>

So i’m asking how do i create a tag that inputs, say, <!–smileyface–>

and outputs

<pre>
<div class=”smiley”>:-)</div>
</pre>

sorry, I thought it might be unclear. WordPress seems to refer to two different things as quicktags: the javascript buttons that insert html code, and the comment tags like ‘more’ that then output html in your post.

I know how to add javascript quicktags, but i’m wondering how to add my own comment tags that then spit output into the post, like the ‘more’ tag or the ‘exhibit’ comment tag, like the exhibit plugin uses. also, iimage gallery uses its own defined <gallery> and </gallery> tags, which then output html div tags in the post.

does that make sense?