sumeetjain

Thanks for the clarification.

I think the solution is just to count how many posts have status “Published” and then display that number next to each category on the ‘Add New Post’ page. Do you have any thoughts on the best way to accomplish that?

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks for the prompt reply, MichaelH.

To answer your questions, I think first a quick look at how the site works now is in order:

https://sumeetjain.com/files/post-title.png (Visions is a category that doesn’t use post titles.)

So right now, I’m using the post ID instead of the title (for posts within certain categories).

The ideal solution with Option 2 would be a display of the number of posts in Visions, so I can manually add a post title. I have no where near 601 visions (as my site would currently have you believe).

Posts are indeed intermingled with other posts from other categories.

It isn’t a problem if the number for a post changes – as long as that doesn’t result in duplicate titles. However, I’m unclear as to how a post number would change. I never pre-date posts.

One thought I had was something like a plugin for the admin screen to make a new post. Next to the categories in the selection box, have the number of posts in parentheses. How feasible is that?

Thanks again for the quick reply.

PS – “If you display your posts in the order of newest to oldest, what kind of number scheme are you expecting?” I didn’t quite understand the question.

Is there another place it would be helpful for me to post this? The issue is pretty central to how my blog operates.

Thanks,
Sumeet

If I didn’t explain the issue clearly enough, please let me know. I’d be happy to clarify.

Worked like a charm. Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks Kafkaesqui, I’ll try B.

I have 2.0.2. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/previous_post
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/next_post

Are these what you’re looking for?

Hi Podz, thanks for the link. I’m actually already aware of ALA’s tutorial, but their script isn’t exactly what I’m trying to do. And even if it is, I’d like to know what I’m doing wrong in my script that it won’t work in WordPress. Otherwise, I’ll keep making the same mistakes.

Anyone have an idea why the script works on a regular page but not in WordPress?

Please provide a link. Otherwise it’s pretty tough to troubleshoot.

To my knowledge, the closest you’ll be able to get to that is to have the category’s description be a title element for the category listing. In other words, when you hover over the link to the category, the description will appear layered above it. Use list_cats for that: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

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My answer partially depends on the format of your front page. What’s the link to the site? dearcrissy.com doesn’t seem to be the site you’re talking about in this post.

Add the following to the CSS for body {

margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;

Clever… Except it wouldn’t make sense to comment about my site on your site, because you effectively eliminate any potential readership. The only two viable options are to comment on my site or on WordPress. My site makes sense because there is a dedicated venue for discussion about my site (this thread). And that venue gets an unfiltered audience – unlike your site. Leaving comments on WordPress is fine, too, and if you have a problem with leaving comments on my site, feel free to post something meaningful here. It’s not a heinous inconvenience to me, so I don’t mind.