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There you go! I prefer cash. ??

You are looking for wp_list_categories.

Use query_posts and as category parameter just set the main category. It will also display posts, which are just in subcategories. It works for me, that is ;).

The hover wouldn’t work in either case, because it’s not correct to define some .class:pseudoclass (at least, it didn’t work for me). What you might try instead, is to give a class to a wrapping element of the "a". If it’s a headline, it could be like this:

<h2 class="brown"><a [...]> ... </a></h2>

and then in your css:

.brown a { ... }
.brown a:hover { ... }
.brown a img { ... }

For the count-in-the-link-issue, here’s the solution.

OT. Is there a good reason why the total needs to be in a link?
Yes. If you use display:block for the links (i.e. to get a nice hover which styles the entire line), a seperate line for the post-count is very annoying. I was really surprised to see that wp_list_categories (resp. walker_category) doesn’t include it in the link by default.

Your plugin-directory is /wp-content/plugins/… you’ll find it in your wordpress installation directory. Plugins usually consist just of one .php file, which has to be copied to that directory and will then appear in your wordpress admin panel under “Plugins” where you can activate them.

And next time, plz don’t start more than one thread for one question, and don’t use unspecific titles like this, as both is unnecessary and considered bad manners. ??

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

You didn’t delete the if-statement at the place where it was before. But I guess I didn’t explain it properly, sorry :).

So don’t just copy it, but also delete the original one. Just to clearify… by if-statement, i mean the following:

if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->category_count) . ')';

That depends on what colors you want to change… background, text, links, hovers. Just backup your style.css and start experimenting with the colors in there… learning by doing always served me well :).

Your zip isn’t very helpful, as it contains no core files ;).

Open your classes.php and look for this in the class Walker_Category:

if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->category_count) . ')';

Copy these 2 lines from where they are and look for the following:

$link .= apply_filters('list_cats', $category->cat_name, $category).'</a>';

Maybe that line is just $link .= $catname.'</a>';, but either way you have to split it up and insert the if-statement i mentioned above. In the end, it will look like:

$link .= $cat_name; // (or that one with apply_filters('..')
if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->category_count) . ')';
$link .= '</a>';

Be done ;). But please, backup your classes.php in case you mess it up *g*. And can anyone tell me, why the backticks don’t work with blockquote here?

While in the Loop, you can assign month and year of your post to variables:

<?php $month = the_time('m');
$year = the_time('Y'); ?>

AFTER that, use query_posts() to retrieve other posts from the displayed post’s month/year.

The header has to be called in your templates such as index.php, home.php, and so on. Here’s an overview.

Then put every post into a div-container… the containers wouldn’t even require styling. Just don’t use that break=all.

I don’t see any reason for clear=all, maybe you should just remove it. As it is now, it works as expected, taking the following content to a height below all the other elements (in your case #l_sidebar and #r_sidebar).

@diane: clear=all is html (and not very useful since css, I might add).

Check this out, and concentrate on the errors caused by ul, ol, li and a for now. Once you have eliminated these, we can continue troubleshooting :).

Btw, I don’t see a thing wrong in Win/IE6.