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Okay. I figured it out. Many thanks for all the help ??

Yes…The vertical menu dropdown’s whole point is to take all of those things and put them up in the drop down menu options. Not sure how or why you would want both…

Oh okay. Gotcha. No idea. Gotta find someone better at this than me on this one. Best of luck.

I have the feeling either no one knows…Well I am going into dashboard.php and taking note of all the code to produce the current widgets, for example the “Right Now” box. Gonna study it and then replicate and edit with the new pieces I need. Thanks anyway.

Are you previewing with a different browser than the browser you logged into the Admin section with? I have noticed this…Also make sure that the session has not timed out.

That was the best move. Thanks, Simon!
For the rest of you – what I did was create a template page instead and just called the loop through there, and it worked like a charm.

That sounds logical. I will look into it. Thanks Simon! ??

That is the complete code. Understand that I have the php plugin installed, allowing me to execute php code from within a page or post. So I created a new page. In this page, is the code I gave you, and now posted again here:
https://en.pastebin.ca/1296155

If you go to the url link I provided, you will see that it does not do correctly. I simply want the title and blurb of each of the 5 posts from category 1,3,4, and 5, as you mentioned. However, what shows on the page, is….

Title A
Blurb A
Title B
Blurb B
Blurb A
Blurb B

So somehow the loop is repeating the_content area…
Do you see what I mean?

BUMP

[Solved]
I just got rid of the standard Archive links, installed Snazzy-Archives plug-in, created a “page” on the back-end, and called the archives through snazzy’s quick-tag on that page, and created a direct link “Archives” that went right to that page.

Thanks Moshu, although you did say the same thing as before, which I addressed, and added some rudeness. I still say thanks.

Jeremy – thanks, yes, I have that in there.

Moshu – I have read it…Yes, I am creating a page within a theme, that I will link to, and want all WP functionality within that page.

My current theme has an archive.php. I am creating “archives.php” to be a very customized archives page that I am building.

The beginning of the page code is thus:

<?php
/*
Template Name: archives
*/
?>
<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

And I still get the above error

This is what I am using to show and link to tags, and it seems to be working fine for me. Check against your code. (Using WP 2.6.2)

<?php if (function_exists('the_tags') ): ?>
							<?php _e('Tags: '); ?>
                            <?php the_tags('', ', ',''); ?>
                            <?php else : ?>
                            <?php endif; ?>

Thanks for your reply, but that won’t work. wp-blog-header.php is needed to allow all WP functionality, and it is in the WP root directory, not the template directory. ??

Any other takers?