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in case anyone else is interested… best plugin for this situation is meteor slides. by default it doesn’t add text but it can easily be done.
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hey, that’s really helpful. Thank you! I’d added the excerpt to your meteor-slides-plugin.php code but knew that wasn’t very good due to upgrading the plugin.
Adding it to my theme’s functions.php code is prefect.
Thanks again

hi i’ve only just had a chance to look at your plugin and customising it.

Adding a title (as in your example) is easy enough but if i want to add paragraphs of text with the slide i.e. a caption, how would I go about it? Is it a case of adding another field to your custom post ype for Slides (is this in meteor-slideshow.php?) and then telling the slideshow to use the_excerpt.. or soemthing like that?

i want this too – i’m choosing a different plugin because of this lack of control

quick answer – i had to use a mix of categories and custom taxonomies (it’s not possible with categories alone). Then i made a taxonomy.php page with a simple loop.

so my categories above became this:
BLOG (5)
– blogsubcat_a (6)
– blogsubcat_b (7)
– blogsubcat_c (8)
ISSUES TAXONOMY
issuetaxonomy_a
issuetaxonomy_b
issuetaxonomy_c

To link to the pages I had to make a custom link in a menu and use a url that looked something like this:
/?cat=7&issue=issuetaxonomy_c
This then uses taxonomy.php automatically to show the posts with teh correct combination of category and taxonomy.

well i’ve reached my archive page by being in my blog (cat 12) and clicking on a date, say “june 2011″… then I should see the list of posts from cat 12 that were written in June 2011, and if needed then the pagination should kick in i.e. i see page 1 of june 2011 blog posts, or page 2 of June 2011 blog posts.

What i get though is page 1 of june 2011 blog posts and a whole load of page numbers, which when i click through them take me to the pages of ALL blog posts (rather than page x of june 2011 blog posts.

hope that makes sense??!

thank you

Ahh i shuol dprobably mention that I’m using this code in my functions.php so that I only get an archive of category 12, rather than an archive of all posts:

/**
 * lets you display an archive of a certain category only e.g. blog
 */
add_filter( 'getarchives_where', 'customarchives_where' );
add_filter( 'getarchives_join', 'customarchives_join' );

function customarchives_join( $x ) {

    global $wpdb;

    return $x . " INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON ($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)";

}

eeke, i have the same issue but the link you give above isn’t working… think your site is down?

thanks for your quick response – i will give it a go

oh, the slider needs to have a large image, with a text overlay and be able to link to the relevant page / post

seanjacob – this is very useful, thank you.

Can you tell me how i auto-wrap the excerpt in <p></p> tags? Like the_excerpt() does?

sorry, realised I put some html in my message. First sentence should read:
I’m trying to list my links in a sidebar using wp_list_bookmarks.
The problem is that the code it gives me back isn’t valid as it wraps the links in <li>
but doesn’t give a <ul> to wrap them in:

thanks everyone. Really appreciate you helping me out.

I found this and it looks useful (but a bit over my head).. thought i’d put it here in case anyone needs it:
wordpress query functions explained in diagram

reporting back…
As suggested by alchymyth I added the code <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?> into line 106 (i.e. after all of my multiple loop shenannigans) and…
IT WORKED!
Sidebars showing up correctly, knowing they are part of the tree of page 131, post_parent being recognised…
wow, thank you.

So, question:
The codex says to do this if you use the_post() with your query. Is there a way to avoid using the_post() with WP_Query??
Apologies if that is a daft question…