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Congratulations Podz! I’ve seen many a post with your input on it. Great job!

Great job Carthik! Another site that feeds my need for WP news. I shall visit often.

Kitten’s Show Categories plugin may be able to help you do that. I’ve used it to show links to a category’s last 5 entries.
https://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/archives/2004/06/18/show-categories-14/
The above link brings you to the plugin page. I hope it helps.

I know that if you set your blog to “posts paged” (Under Options-Reading), this will automatically set your blog to show a certain number of entries per page. You may then insert the post_nav_link function in your index.php page and it will insert “Next page/previous page”.
https://wiki.www.ads-software.com/posts_nav_link
For more information on the posts_nav_link function. My site uses something similar.

This happened to me a month ago. The box that contained all my categories would not show unless I minimized my screen first. It was strange and I thought that the problem may be with the CSS file for WP. I uploaded the file again and it has worked fine for me. I don’t know if you are experiencing a similar problem to mine. Hopefully someone more versed in WP will be able to help you.

Sorry. I posted the above entry. I didn’t realize I was logged out.

I actually made a plugin for a jump menu/drop down menu with the ability to exclude categories from the drop down list.
https://typedby.com/archives/2004/06/22/dropdown-plugin-with-ability-to-exclude/
The output of the function is:
<option value="permalink to category page">category name</option>
Hope this helps.

I just wanted to say that this is a great script. I just tried it out on my site. Thank you for creating it.

Thanks to podz and fargon! When I went onto the #wordpress irc, fargon mentioned that there was a bug in functions.php and he provided me with the fix. He also mentioned that it was a problem with spam words. When I uploaded the new functions.php, I still experienced the error. A minute ago I decided to remove my spam words list from WP and see what happened. I made a test comment on my site and didn’t receive the error. It seems that something on the list of spam words I was using was causing the error.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to drop by later. I’m probably going to get dizzy from trying to figure this out.

I actually created a plugin to use get_links( ) in a drop down menu. I can’t recall if I used the same parameters as the original get_links( ). I may have taken out some of the parameters that I didn’t want to use for my plugin.
Right now, the plugin can organize links by Category ID. You may also choose the order by which the links are organized (name, ID, URL, Description and random). You may also limit the number of links shown in the dropdown menu.
I am using the plugin to organize two different categories of links (“Favorite Sites” and “WP Plugins – Thank you”) on my site.
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for but you are welcome to check out the plugin: https://typedby.com/archives/2004/06/14/drop-down-plugin-for-wp-links-manager/

I didn’t experience a runtime error when I went to the link you specified in the above post (your site). However, I did notice that you used
onChange=”MM_jumpMenu(‘parent’,this,0)”
within the jump menu code for your Category Drop Down menu but when I viewed the source for the page the Javascript code that Beel provided to you (above) was missing.

Thank you! I’ve been look at WP and though I’m a novice compared to others, I’ve found my way around it. The cookie thing would be nice but I’m definitely open to new ideas.
I took a look at what davidchait wrote in this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/4/1997 about having certain posts viewable by users with a certain level. I’m having trouble with the code snippet he has in that post. I keep receiving a parse error. I’ll keep at it. I know I’m missing something that’s probably really simple. lol