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In trying to debug the code I put echo $cats and got Array, I put echo $num and got 1 (I have 7 categories), and inside the loop I did an echo of $cat and got nothing

Otto42 I tried putting your last bit of code in my sidebar and got nothing. I am on 2.4

I really dont need a list of all feeds, I just need the feed for one particular category

I would love to get a feed address for one of my categories but https://blog.apcug.org/archives/category/Discount/feed does not seem to work. Is that not what was meant by <site.com>/archives/category/<category>/feed

Sorry about that. It was a case problem.

I added user Author, and was trying to logon as author

I don’t understand Michael’s solution, since if I just built my new theme, it would not be in the WordPress Theme Viewer site, would it?

In terms of vkaryl’s comment, I was even stupider (if that’s a word) than that. I created the snapshot.png file, and it was in the proper folder ON MY HD, but I forgot to upload it to the server (I am almost certain I remember doing that, but maybe I messed up and put it in the wrong folder on the server or something, but it certainly was not where it needed to be.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

I came up with my own solution:

<img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/rule<?=rand(1,5)?>.gif”>

randomly selects rule1.gif, rule2.gif,… rule5.gif

flashfader seems to load a flash slideshow, and multiple-random-img seems like overkill, because it is designed for pulling n images from a m (n<m) database

I really need to find a numeric tag I can do a modulo on, and let it generate a number to append to a file name, as described above.

All I saw was PhotoPress https://isaac.wedin.org/photopress/ which did a LOT more than what I wanted, and seemed to only provide one random graphic inserter

I need something that I can use more than once in a template (use one gets images 1a, 1b, 1c and use two gets 2a, 2b, and 2c)

I am pretty sure the modulo approach I suggested would work, if someone can tell me of a tag that is numeric, and how to use php to form the name of an image that will then be displayed

What I was remembering is the link moshu gave.

What is the advantage of doing that separation? Does it make it easier to just copy in a new version of WP and retain any mods one made in terms of plugins and theme changes?

I just figured it out. The tags only show up on display of a single post. I was looking at them on a list of all posts.

I tried what Lorelle gave me for scriptygoddess since that is what I tried at the start, and got a few function not founds, and a few names of the categories.

I think moshu is right, I should stick to the existing tags, and just get the previous and next tag irregardless of category. But the question is why they are returning null strings.

There must be something I need to do to make the previous_post() function return something.

I tried the string that oriecat suggested, and just got ||

I used the string IanD suggested and got absolutely nothing (in other words I put x before the string, and y after the string and got xy)

It did not help me (I must be dumber than even I thought)

The first link was where I got the code I tried

If you got it to work, can you give me the exact string out of your index.php file?

You make a good point

But <?php next_post(); ?> does not show anything.

Do I need to do anything to activate it?

<?php previous_post(‘« « %’, ”, ‘yes’); ?>
| <?php next_post(‘% » » ‘, ”, ‘yes’); ?>

Just shows the “|”

I may have to settle for those two tags

What I wanted was the previous and next in that category, I just dont want the string “Previous Post in xxxxx” where xxx is the category.

If x and y are categories, and my most recent posts were
x post1
y post2
x post3
y post4
x post5

If I am looking at post 3 the tags you reference would give me post2 and post4

What I am looking for is post1 and post5, but I dont want the specific string Previous post in x post1, I just want post1