dewski007

I’m in the same boat as you are, RJaus. It seems to be by far the most (and in many cases ONLY) qualified plugin for complex post sorting and managing. So far the only other solutions appear to be tediously difficult to use and/or not nearly as robust.

Dyasonhat, I will also gladly pay for WP-Smart-Sort-Premium.

In my first plea for a plugin with these features (before I even knew about the premium version) Scribu claimed to be developing a plugin that may fit the bill. Anyhow, food for thought.

@michaelh, thanks for the suggestions, but I don’t quite think that using that combo of plugins would accomplish what I’m looking for. Especially after heavily researching taxonomies versus custom fields the past few days, I think that finding a way to make custom taxonomies work is the best way to go.

@scribu, I’ve bookmarked your site and I am looking forward to seeing what you are working on. It seems like your Query Multiple Taxonomy plugin would allow wordpress to do what I need, now it’s just a matter of creating sort methods. Any ETA on the plugin?

Thx to both of you for your input, I’m going to keep this post open in case anyone else has other suggestions or solutions.

I think using three custom taxonomies is exactly what I need to use. thanks, esmi.

That being said, I browsed custom taxonomy plugins to see if any match what I’m trying to do and as far as I could find, one doesn’t exist. the best way I can explain what I’m trying to do is by using an apartment search as an example. They can choose “1-bedroom” for the taxonomy “Bedrooms,” “1-bath” from the taxonomy “Bathrooms,” and “$1000-$1500” from “Price Range.” Each of these taxonomies would have a dropdown for the viewer to choose what they wanted, and some sort of “submit” or “search” button would find all posts with that criteria. On the same note, the viewer could choose just one, such as “price range,” and leave the rest blank to get a broader range of posts.

Does anyone know of something like that or willing to give me a direction to move if I wanted to write it?

Thanks again, esmi.

Thanks for the quick help, doc. Looks like a good start. I’ll see if I can’t take care of the rest of the tweaking. Much thanks!

I disabled a problem plugin (cubepoints) and took down a flash video, both of which were on my sidebar, and got it from 94 to 27 errors on the main page. Most errors were due to flash video and that one plugin. I’m still experiencing the problem. Also, it seems like it is only occurring in browsers other than firefox.

I’m essentially trying to make a bio page about the author using the info they put into their profile. The problem I run into (what I’m trying to get help with here) is that there isn’t any formating when the info populates.

On a side note, I’m bummed you don’t like it. Any suggestions to improve the template?

Bump.

I’ll give it a shot, will you do me a favor and email me your index.php? send it to [email protected] if possible. I won’t be able to check it for about an hour since I’ve got to grab some groceries, but I’m happy to help as much as I can.

Also, with that particular theme, the most common place to list the author is below the title on the left or the right of the date. All the info is in one spot then: title, date, time, author. I dunno. Food for thought I suppose.

<b>Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></b>

Yup, replace the code I gave you with this one instead. What is your site?

Are you trying to link to an author bio, or an archive containing that author’s posts?

I’m by no means an expert, (community please correct me if I’m wrong) but give this a shot.

Enter <b>Posted by <?php the_author(); ?></b> after <p><?php the_content(''); ?></p> on your single.php file, you can also add it where you want it to show up on your main index page. single.php is when only that article is pulled up whereas the main index (index.php) is your page with however many active posts your theme, or you, allow.

bump

Can anyone help out? Please?

it turns out that the code I changed made everything all awkward. So it’s back to:

<div id="header">
    	<div id="logo">
        	<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/logo-trans.png" alt="wpelogo"/></a>
        </div>
        <div id="pages">
        	<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/?page_id=2/"><span class="menu-items"><h3>About:</h3>learn more about this site</span></a>

I’m still not sure how to nudge it over, though…