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TG,
Thanks…I was looking in the wrong place. For some reason I looked first in the “Manage Links” section, and when it wasn’t there, I went digging through various php files. Once again I’ve managed to outsmart myself to no avail…
Note to self: always look in “Options” when looking for an option.
-Tony

I’ve implemented the Nicer Archives hack on my site (thanks for posting it), but I modified it so it would validate. Check it out here: https://www.tcervo.com/archives.php
The modifications I made were pretty straightforward:
* I gave all the select statements id’s, so that I could associate a label. (This was for Section 508 validation.)
* In the archive_link() function, I changed the echo statement to read:
echo “$siteurl/$blogfilename?p=&post->ID&c=1”;
(I changed ampersand’s to & because the XHTML validator was throwing an error.)
* I wrapped the form elements in an unordered list. At first I used div’s, but it was easier to style the select statements inline using li’s.
That’s it! It now validates for XHTML 1.0, CSS, and Section 508.
-Tony

David,
I think we’re on the same page on this one…Since my “About” page is really just a post about the site, how I built it, and a blurb about me, making it a separate page (outside the WP system) didn’t make sense. I do want the ability to add to the page, as I add or remove core functionality from the site, or I want to update my own profile. Plus, I don’t want to have to modify two separate pages every time I make a change to the template.
For now I’m going to live with the “About” category showing up in the category list, but when I have time I may figure out a way to keep it from showing up.
-Tony

TG,
That might also work.
I’ve pretty much got David’s idea working, with one exception: the category I created (“About”) is showing up in my list of categories on the right (list_cats). Is there an easy way to keep it from showing up there? It’s off the homepage, thanks to
if ($cat == ”)
$cat = -14;
but it still shows up in the categories…
If not, I guess I can try TG’s idea.
Thanks….
-Tony

David,
Thanks for the tip. Now that you mention it, that makes perfect sense. I was banging my head trying to figure out how to filter a *post*, when filtering a category is simple enough. Some times things are so easy they’re impossible to see…
-Tony

allusion: I had a feeling it was something along those lines. I had a thought last night about writing a “master” function that’s called with the onload handler, that will call any functions I want to load…I’m too full of pie, port, and fudge to do anything about it at the moment, though ??
Thanks for the help.

TG,
Aha! I’ve found the problem, but can’t seem to nail down the fix…In my body tag, I’ve got onload=”onloadHandler();” to preload some header graphics. When I remove that line, the blockquotes hack works fine…Seems like the body onload is conflicting with the window.onload in the script. I tried calling extractBlockquoteCitations() in the body onload, but that’s not working either…I’ll keep playing with it. At least I know what the problem is.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions…
-Tony

For some reason I can’t get this to work…I think I’m missing something along the way. Here’s what I’ve done:
* uploaded the citations.js file to my server
* linked to the citations.js file in my template
* added title and cite attributes to the blockquote tag
Now, when I upload a test post, the link doesn’t show up. I’ve viewed my source and verified I’m pointing to the correct location of the .js file…and the blockquote tag has title=”test title?? cite=”https://www.test.com?? inside the opening blockquote tag.
What am I missing?
Thanks…