Val

Are you saying that when you type in just the URL, you get a blank screen?

Thank you for sharing.

@rcosgrove thank you for posting Akismet’s email!

Thank you @eduardo

Did you close your browsers and clear the cache?

Whatever is causing this appears to be browser based / cache based. (I was working in Chrome). Switching to Firefox solved the problem.

Does this plugin allow the display of Instagrams for specific hashtags only?

I didn’t see in @slingshot-usa’s original post where s/he just clicked on a file, which is why I wrote,

You must be privy to more info,

suggesting you had a conversation with that person that is not documented here.

I didn’t read where @slingshot-usa just double-clicked on a file. You must be privy to more info.

DancingEngineer’s post is old but not necessarily out-of-date. The basic steps are the same; I’m not claiming expert status as I just slogged through it after uninstalling MAMP. j

I ran into trouble this afternoon because my file permissions were not correct at install. DancingEngineer’s post helped me fix my problem and the install went off without a problem once I changed file permissions.

Now whether this is “optimal” or not, I’m not (yet) qualified to answer. But I can say, my local WordPress install works on Mac OS X Lion without MAMP or XAMMP.

@slingshot-usa: Last week, I followed Konstantin’s tutorial for installing WordPress on a Mac OS X running MAMP.

His tutorial was easy to follow and worked (for me).

Also, here is another link (untested but I am reading to resolve a permissions problem):
How to install WordPress on Mac OS X.

Hope that helps.

@songdogtech Are you saying I cannot install WordPress locally on Mac OS X without MAMP?

@bcworkz, thank you for your help.

I’m documenting my newbie thought process and how I found the solution for the other WordPress wanderers out there with the hope this makes another’s WordPress learning journey a little shorter.

What I thought: Create a new CPT, use default categories and tags, and CPT posts will show up like everything else. If the latest post was of CPT Articles, it would show up on the front page, first…

What I’ve learned (so far): Custom Post Types (CPT) do not “show up like everything else.”

Why? Because CPT’s are not “posts.” (Note to Dev’s: Thank you. Love you all! IMHO, the result of that discussion you had about what to name this “thing” should have resulted in “it” being named something else.

Logically, those who argued to keep the phrase “Custom Post Types,” are technically correct, while those who argued to name it anything else on the grounds that naming it “Custom Post Type” would be confusing, were, “practically correct.” I know there’s a term for that but it slips my mind right now.)

The solution to my problem begins with understanding that Custom Post Types do not show up automatically like blog posts because they are not blog posts.

Thank you Otto for your post about Custom Post Types which stated…

… they are still not Posts.
They do not show up on the Blog.
They do not appear in the Feed.

This explains why, out-of-the-box, my shiny new CPT was not magically appearing on the home page of my site. This was not obvious to me and I could not find anything in the Codex that said, if one creates a CPT, one will have to do some work to make them appear on the home page and in an RSS feed. It might be helpful to put that blurb in the Codex to help light the way for the unenlightened.

What Solved the Problem: Juston Tadlock’s short tutorial Showing Custom Post Types on Your Blog solved my problem.

Essentially, I had to add another function to my functions.php file:

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

		function my_get_posts( $query ) {

			if ( ( is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) || is_feed() )
			$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'my_articles' ) );

		return $query;
		}

Thank you for replying.

Here is the current supports array:
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'comments', 'revisions', 'author', 'excerpt', 'custom-fields', 'thumbnail', 'post-formats' ),

The posts from the Custom Post Type are still not returned when I click the Category link the posts are associated with or when I click either of the Tags associated with the posts.

As a point of discussion, I thought child themes inherited the post formats of their parents. I am not seeing how the addition of this argument to register_post_type is relevant to the issue?

Ok, thank you. That’ll get me started!

Thank you! The was the direction I needed to take the next step.