dragonsjaw

sorry i misread you original question thinking you wanted a list of tags.

You need to make a new sidebar.php template.
You need to make sure your functions.php lists the number of sidebars your theme uses.
You need to call the new sidebar you just made in the special Page template you just made.

Example: this is my sidebar5.php template which is uploaded to the server (ftp or cpanel):

<div id="sidebox" class="sidebar">
	<ul class="sidebox_list">
<?php
		if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(5)) : ?>
<?php
	endif; ?>
	</ul>
</div>

Then I call it using this on Page.php or whatever special page template you just made and uploaded:

<?php include ('sidebar5.php'); ?>

By making sure your sidebars are all widget friendly this will work.

When you go into the dashboard to widgets, in this case, you will see a sidebar5.. and you can add what ever widgets you want to this sidebar and they will only show up on the specified page. I used mine to also just add photos to this one page.

yes it is a long list, which is just what I wanted in this one instance, for this one special archives Page.
I wouldn’t recommend using this in the sidebar LoL

I use this on a page, it only lists the Tag name which is linked to a page with all the post titles using that tag.

‘<?php wp_tag_cloud( ‘format=list&orderby=count&order=DESC&smallest=8&largest=8′ ); ?>’

the 8 and 8 means 8 pixels for the display size.
Some of the looks of this will be controlled by your CSS for tags.

Maybe this is a start.. you could add in the get posts and permalink stuff?

Perhaps if the posts were in a specific category getting the RSS feed would be easier. I just saw this somewhere on this forum so know it can be done.

Well you could make your Solar Page the parent page.
Make a child page of Solar, and move (yes by hand) your posts into the page or pages you made.

to get a ‘blog’ page besides your home page :
Or perhaps set up a new Page under Solar and somehow pull the RSS feeds of the Posts you want to move into this Page. I am guessing here, but think someone else may know more.

OK, using this:
<?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?>

I get a tag cloud. Now I must style it into a simple list!

Shane,
I see you add that bit of htaccess code to a lot of threads,
could you explain to me what it does?

I can see it for someone who may be changing their permalinks on an existing blog, but for a new set up what file name could it be asking for?

Yes I realize I may have some 404s..
many of the links to my old blog site are coming from another site I have control over, so it means leg work on my part tracking them down and changing to the new WP links.
Others I hope to flush out with a good 404.php page.
I will check out that plugin though.

thanks

A froum
thread
that discusses this.

In its most simplest form:

1. He creates a template called “freebies.php”

2. In that template he has a loop running to only show posts that have a category of “freebies”

3. In the WP backend he creates a new page called “Freebies” and in the right sidebar selects the Freebies template that he created in step #1

Now when you click on the Freebies page it will list all posts that have a category of “freebies”, but it is not a category page (ie, not using category.php or archive.php).

Does that make sense?

?php query_posts('cat=5'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Just need to find out what the category id# is!

hope that’s what you were looking for.

Yea the way WP stores photos is sort of a drag.
That is one thing i really liked about MT, on the fly making the folder path to where the photo lives.

I did just upload 2 photos through the uploaded with out attaching to post.. so I found how to get that addy.
I did make a new folder ‘photos’ for the uploads, and turned off the year/month thing, but they still come through with that added to the url.

I think for all the photos in the ‘old’ blog i will just hard code to their present location on the server.

But for future photos on this blog, in posts and such, I am still not sure the best practice.

thanks

So I was looking for info about permalinks and ran across this:
https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#permalinks

which states NOT to use date base at beginning of permalink structure if you want decent SEO?

So what to do?

I guess I don’t understand fully what WP is doing,
or what I should be setting my permalinks up as.

I get that, yes, but if i changed the uploads to photos
and left the organization of month / year on—
wouldn’t i then need to EVERY TIME i upload images have to go into
admin – settings – miscellaneous
and add the folder structure I wanted for that image?

In a post today:
If it was set to photos/month/year
I would have to add /party/
Ex: photos/02/2010/party/us.jpg

In a post tomorrow:
I would have to go to admin and add /homestead/
Ex: photos/02/2010/homestead/garden.jpg

Is this corrent? Or is that sort of file structure something that WP doesn’t like?

thank you

And I just saw this today:
digwp.com/2010/01/wordpress-more-tag-tricks/

Lots of good info for the more tag

Well somehow I don’t believe that is normal practice for hosts. I know my host will sometimes post about unusual traffic & slowdowns if a site has been slash dotted or something like that.. certainly not close you down.

Perhaps you need to look into a dedicated account ?

I would be interested in what others have to say about this?