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I’ve tried both of those things to no effect. =/ Additionally, I’m able to get content on the categories to display and hide without changing permalinks or .htaccess by just editing the post type entries in the admin panel.

There is a way to link the categories in your navigation by using the WP menus.

First, you need to be using a theme that has support for menus. Second, in the wordpress administrator, go to appearance => menus and then you can select which pages, posts, categories, etc you want to use in your menu. Select them and click “Add to Menu” from the middle column. Once they are added, drag and drop them and nest them for drop down menus as needed. Title your menu at the top and click save. When you have made your menu, at the top of the middle column, under Primary Navigation, click the drop down menu and select the menu you just made as the menu you will use.

I hope this helps!

The 1px trick is handled in the css file, either screen.css, or style.css. Also, sometimes content in a main content column will be wider than the specified width and you can hide the overflow to keep your css layouts from exploding.

Try two things for starters, troubleshoot the div widths by adding the border: 1px solid red; (or a different color for each div so you can tell them apart) and seeing if the overflow of the content can fix the layout issue.

so, add this to your existing css and use the border on other divs on the page, like #content.

.aside {border:1px solid black;}
.page {border:1px solid red; overflow:hidden;}

*css structure issue

Also, check the div .aside

Looks like a CSS formatting issue. When I am troubleshooting this stuff, I like to add a 1px solid color border on each div in the structure to see what one is causing the issue. I suspect that your main content div and sidebar divs are too wide for the area assigned so it’s kicking the floated element below.

check these divs:
#content
.hfeed
#tag_cloud-3
.page

For the record to anyone else trying to do this, I have my custom date field inputing in the yyyy/mm/dd format (with a note in the admin panel when inputting the custom posts to use that format), and then I have it reorder the display to mm/dd/yyyy and take out the leading 0’s for M and D on the archive site page with this code:

<? $sdate = explode('/',$date);
						echo ltrim($sdate[1],'0')."/".ltrim($sdate[2],'0')."/".$sdate[0];
						?>

This ended up being a lot simpler than I than I was thinking…no complicated query – just change and enforce a different date format and reorder the display output.

That seems to be working. Ill have to go back through and change them. It’s a good thing I can set this parameter on the date format, as we’re early enough in the project. Thank you!

I have been working on this for days now…thank you so much for figuring this out!

I second feggbert though…is there a way to get rid of/hide the top level parent link?

I would like to do something very similar also. One workaround I found was to create a new menu for each page you want, but that shouldn’t have to be done as it is not dynamic.

What I would like to do is show only a branch or some subset of the primary navigation set up with wp_nav_menu. So on a sub page it would dynamically create a nav menu on the side that shows only a part of the primary navigation – specifically all of the child pages to the top level parent page.

Has anyone figured out how to do something like this? Is it even possible to do with wp_nav_menu?

In poking around with this more, it almost seems like it might be an error with the database. Almost as if it werent able to add new information so it just punts. Might there be a way I can test to see if the database and wordpress are communicating all right?

That didnt work for some reason. Is there any other symptoms I might be able to let you all know to help troubleshoot this?

This isnt that fun of a first experience with wordpress. Im willing to stick with it if I can get it working right, though. Thanks again for any help!

Blog in question: https://www.innovativeinsite.com/newsite/blog/
Linux server (if that makes a difference)
PHP: 5.0.4
MySQL: Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.10
Wordpress: 2.1.1

I am not running any plugins.

Whew, im glad im not the only one. If this helps anyone with solving this issue, Iv talked to my hosting company to ask if it could be a permissions issue at the server level and they didnt think it was and suggested reinstalling wordpress. I did, same issues.

I also cant edit the existing posts. This is very irritating. Im on the latest release of 2.1 so perhaps an older version would work? Im just stumped.

If this helps diagnose the issue, I get an invalid user ID error when I attempt to edit any users’ actions. When logged in as admin, I get this error when attempting to edit admin’s profile (set to administrator status). I also get the same error when trying to edit another user account I created for myself which is set to editor. Logging into that editor account has the same issues. I can add new users though, and I can change their status. They just cant add anything no matter what their status.

Also, when I attempt to publish a post, it jumps me to the Manage -> Posts page where it tells me there are “no posts found”.

I can still delete stuff, just cant add anything new. Im just stumped…