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Sokrates,

You better back away, ‘cos I am filled with love for you right now and I might end up hugging ya! ??

That’s exactly what I wanted to do!

Thanks.

Has anyone managed to develop such a plug-in yet. It’s one of the more helpful features of, e.g., Drupal and Mambo.

It would be great if we could set a post to go live at a specific date and vanish into the archives at a set date. (I’m thinking mostly of those who use their WP sites like a mini-CMS.)

Here’s another idea I had, which combines some of the elements from the ideas above.

I’m not sure it’ll work though.

That is so cool! But I am completely ignorant of custom fields and the like. What would you need to put in the custom field value and key to get: “WP Plugin”?

Thinking a bit more about the next page idea…

What would be great if is the page could almost be like a contents page, listing and linking to the pages to come in that post. That sounds like it’s not possible, though.

Thanks for adding the link, vkaryl. You’re right, this is far from a dead-end. I’ve got something similar on two sites that I’ve built using WP.

Thanks, guys. That’s the kind of thinking I just wasn’t managing to summon up. ?? They’re both improvements on what I was doing!

Sleep, I think I’d put that much detail as an <h1></h1> subtitle in the actual post (rather than the title), to save have ridiculously long titles showing up in any “recent posts” etc. I like the idea of a sermons page with instructions for search, etc.

Lorelle, it’s certainly a challenge. It was a challenge I enjoyed when I began! ??

The idea is that the site will be partly used by those in the church to keep up to date, those who want to know about the church (e.g. if you’re moving to the village or worried about some weird cult your kids seem to hav joined!), those in the village and other Christians or church leaders who might want the information for reference.

I had been thinking of related posts, but that is a great idea with the next page.

Thanks, again guys. This has been really helpful. The biggest challenge is that I’m building the site for someone who’s something of a technophobe, but it needs to be possible for him to update etc. WordPress has been perfect for this, but why oh why did I upgrade to 1.5 half way thru and have to go learn a whole load of new stuff from the Codex?! ??

Have u tried starting again from scratch? Or, at least deleting your current .htaccess and choosing an alternative permalink strucutre from the admin page.

I have got any details with me, but you can do this with a couple of plug-ins, easily.

Get Ryan Boren’s plug-in to specify which posts to allow on front page. And then the customisable posts plug-in will let you put a recent comments (from particular cat) in ur sidebar.

Sorry I haven’t got any more details than that!

That’s great. I’m most impressed that u did this with cats, not pages.

Why would you want to do that?

I have something like this in the Loop in my Archive Template. Basically, it shows excerpts from all cats apart from 11, where it just shows title:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Archive for the ‘<?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>’ Category</h2>

<?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Archive for <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’); ?></h2>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Archive for <?php the_time(‘F, Y’); ?></h2>

<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Archive for <?php the_time(‘Y’); ?></h2>

<?php /* If this is a search */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Search Results</h2>

<?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Author Archive</h2>

<?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET[‘paged’]) && !empty($_GET[‘paged’])) { ?>
<h2 class=”pagetitle”>Blog Archives</h2>

<?php } ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php posts_nav_link(”,”,’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php posts_nav_link(”,’Next Entries »’,”) ?></div>
</div>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”post”>
<?php if ( in_category(’11’) ) { ?>

<h3 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<?php } else { ?>

<h3 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<small><?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’) ?></small>

<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(120, ‘
<br><img>’, ‘none’, TRUE, ‘Read the full post >>’, FALSE); ?>
</div>

<p class=”postmetadata”>Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’,”,’|‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>

<!– <?php trackback_rdf(); ?> –>

<?php } ?>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php posts_nav_link(”,”,’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php posts_nav_link(”,’Next Entries »’,”) ?></div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Sorry, I’ve never used sub-cats, so I’m not familiar with this exact problem. However, I have found that it’s possible to manipulate things abit with plug-ins like these.

Have you tried things like:

Uninstalling all of your plug-ins?
Selecting an alternate theme?

There may or may not be any logic to those suggestions (!), but I’d give it a go. It may at least give you some clues.

I had exactly the same thing for a couple of days. And then things just righted themselves.

?!