danicahodge

In case anyone is looking here for an answer, I solved my problem by using a forum plug-in (WP Forum Server) and moving all user-generated content away from the blog posts and into the forum which has its own segregated search function. Seems to work!

Ryan’s trick worked for me, at least in Safari! Thanks.

Thank you so much for your response. I actually ended up downloading a couple of plugins that got me closer to where I wanted to be. They were Thumbnail for Excerpts and Regenerate Thumbnails. The first worked perfectly with the standard template to give me my images on the categories page. Now my problem is how to resize the thumbnails, because Regenerate Thumbnails didn’t work, but I’ll check the other forums. I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved, anyway. You guys are great!

OK, the “get the content” code didn’t work (everything vanished off the page), but I sent it back to its original state. If anyone has an easy fix for this, it’s appreciated.

Oh, I see my problem for the menu. I just need to use the Categories button instead of Custom Menu in the widget bar. Easy.

Wow, I’ll try that code, thanks.

When I had another theme installed (was using Magazine Basic), I was able to make the menu a drop-down. When I switched to Twenty Ten, it actually kept the drop down, but when I had to re-download the theme again (see above screw up) it went away. Hmmm, I wonder if I could switch to Magazine Basic, select drop down, and then switch back? Sounds too easy to work.

Thanks, I forgot to mention that I am actually using Twenty Ten Weaver, which is a child theme of Twenty Ten. Which is great, because I actually was messing with code earlier and really did create a real mess that I was thankfully able to mop up by re-downloading WordPress and the theme.

Thanks for your help. That seems to work, and now I have all of the content on the page. Do you know how I might work the image into a custom excerpt? I would rather have a shorter version on the index page, but I definitely want to include the image, and all of the other excerpt info I’ve seen only includes the text.

As for the drop-down menu, I want to include a custom menu of post categories as a drop-down. Most of my site is static pages, and I do want those in outline form (which this template does), but I’d rather have categories as drop-down, if possible.

Thanks again.