gimperdaniel

Thanks for your reply. Haven’t had a chance to go through it all yet, but it looks like what i’m looking for… thanks.

if you can edit your theme you can use a php function to replace all “character returns” (basically when you press enter) with a

the function is nl2br();

I know the_content() should come well formatted. not sure about the_excerpt().

echo $excerpt = nl2br(get_the_excerpt());

if you use firefox you can get two plugins that will help you a whole lot to find problems within your site.

1. Firebug (let’s you inspect every aspect of your website)
2. Web developer tool bar (let’s you turn on and off options)

That’s what i’ve been telling you.. nothing works.. unless you write your own query… but i just hate mysql “joins”

Yeah. I checked spelling many times. I have been trying to get this to work for over 5 hours.. started last night… but whenever i google post_types I get tons of tutorials on how to set it up.. but it looks like no one has the need to do what I’m trying to do.

Creating a custom post_type for cats is a good idea.
If you’re going to have repetitive cats info… you can create custom taxonomies.

you can also create custom metaboxes with custom fields in them.

I usually create custom metaboxes in functions.php because none of the plugins out there really cover all my needs, but you can use one great plugin to create custom post_types and custom taxonomies really quick. and they give you full access to the post_type options. It will save you a lot of time.

The name of the plugin is Custom Post Type UI

If you have access to the database you can:

1. export a file with all your tables
2. open it on a text edit software
3. search for OLD SITE NAME and replace with NEW SITE NAME
4. Import that file back into your database

here’s what I just tried:

query_posts(‘post_id=183&post_type=books’);?>

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

the_post_thumbnail(array(70, 102));

endwhile;endif;

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This will get the latest 10 books, it’s supposed to get one book.

What could be wrong?

1. Several query_posts on this page? some conflict?
2. I use a plugin to regisger new post_types… is there any option that I need to set to true/false?

This is a for a featured section on a books website:

1. I setup the backend where the user can select the books from a drop down and pick which one they want to be featured on the main page.

2. Then I save this in “options”. Just the post IDs. So it would look like something 2,5,10,1,11

Then on the front page I get_option and break it into an array:

array[0] = 2
array[1] = 5

and so on…

And finally I could either do a query to query each post with a foreach loop

Or I could use post__in (which is what I’m doing right now)

the only problem with post__in is that it get’s my array and once it returns the values from the database it spits out in alphabetical or numerical order.

so my array is 2,5,10,1,11
the have_posts loops spits out 11,10,5,2,1

I haven’t tried your solution for the post__in above.. will see if that works

Nope, that doesn’t work. The only solution I found right now is to use post__in

The only problem with that is that when I’m querying several posts it doesn’t keep them in order, it seems to choose an random order. I’ve tried orderby options, but they don’t help much. I need them to be queried in the array order.

I used this.. and it worked:

$wp_query->query_vars[‘taxonomy_name’];

I gave up on that right now. The transition isn’t easy enough. I’m just creating separate installs for now. Thanks

Yes, but what about the settings? options? widgets? and everything else?

and it also works if I add an category base to the permalink structure… but I really dont want a category base…

everything i described above works just fine on index.php (home page)…

why doesn’t it work on the news category?

The index.php is almost identical to the news category page except that it has other images before the posts.

I have tried all of the above and neither one has worked for me. I am having exactly the same problem as described for several people here…

permalink structure: /%category%/%postname%

In this case…

https://www.mypage.com/news

This calls the archive.php

archive.php has an include: if (in_category(“news”)) INSERT news_arquive.php

In news_archive.php I have the following code:

<?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;?>
						<?php query_posts("cat=7&showposts=5&paged=$page");?>

And then in the bottom I have the previous and next links. They point to:

https://www.mypage.com/news/page/2

But that doesn’t seem to exist so I get a 404 page.

Question is.. WHY?