jwesseldyke

OK… To answer my own question and confirm my own solution…

Yes, that was the answer. Not quite sure why I didn’t think of it earlier.

Create a page, use archives.php as the template.

I think maybe I wasn’t clear in my original post. Staring at code erodes my brain…

The theme I’m working with is not widget aware, so I’m creating static links to pages, and I’m using a static page (write->page) as my home page. If I were using the latest posts as my home page there would be “previous” links dynamically created.

I’m trying to figure out how to create a static link to a page that has a list of posts (or excerpts) and figured archives.php is the way to do that.

My confusion is that I don’t know what to link to…

I may have just answered my own problem…

Perhaps the solution is to make archives.php a template file with a different name and create a page using that template file?

J

OK… I found the solution, in this case, anyway…

I changed:

<?php query_posts('category_name=faith-reformed-news&showposts=3'); ?>

to:
<?php query_posts('category_id=3&showposts=3'); ?>

Seems to have cleared up the issue…

Thanks for the reply, Michael…
Looks like a similar issue to my non-expert eye, but it looks like he’s using a different method to query posts… He’s also using cat #’s… Whether or not it’s the same thing I can’t tell…

And in either case, it looks like that issue is unresolved… ??

Thanks for your response…

I added the definitions for .post p and p… So the initial thing was trying to figure that out… Thanks for explaining it…

So how does that impact my pulling the category post instead of, say, the text on a page (write -> page)?

OK… So I had to print out the php files in question to find the difference… I STILL don’t understand why it’s coded like this or why the code makes it work… But that’s irrelevant I guess… Here’s the snippet that made it work correctly…

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $x = 0; ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if($x = 0){ ?>

				<?php $x++; ?>
				<?php }else{ ?>

Then the post information… Then…
`<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>`

Maybe someone can splain it to me, maybe it’s just not important, but that was the solution…

Thanks again, Moshu for your help.
J

OK… I’m getting closer…

The index.php file seems OK… It’s the individual page and post pages that are causing problems… Back to the drawing board.

I read the link, thanks you… Very informative…
But, no, it uses the same div… right and post… Exactly the same as the posts… So I’m still playing detective…

In fact, now I went back to look at the post pages to see if there was a difference that I missed beyond the obvious… And even the post pages are back to the same thing with no extra margin space between p’s…

Grr…

Oops… That’s what I get for trying to help even though I’m a noob…

lemme try again…
Find the following…

<ul>
   <li class="page_item"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>

	<?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>

</ul>

Remove

<li class="page_item"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>

Thanks, sorry if it was a double post — to me it was different only because your solution worked in posts and not in pages…

I’m still not sure why it does in one scenario and not in the other…

Find the php file that has the menu in it… It’s often in header.php

Find something that looks like the following:

• “>Home

<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=’); ?>

Simply delete

• “>Home

Wow… Thanks… The CSS file does seem much different than others I’ve played with…

I appreciate your help, and feel compelled to let you know that the site in question is not my site and that’s why it’s not listed in my profile… I’m just a volunteer helping out a church…

Anyway, thanks again for the help…
J

Good point…
here’s the link…

sarah.asmallorange.com/~frmp

Thanks again for your help, look at your convenience

that’s what I’m searching for… I’m sure it’s a margin issue, but I can’t find the correct margin value… I know p is what breaks the lines, just don’t see anything that says “p margin=0” or anything such…

changing ‘line-spacing’ spreads out all the lines of text but not between paragraphs… That was one of my incorrect guesses… ??

So it turns out the idiocy is inclusive of both the author and the guy editing the life out of the template… ??

Thanks for your help…
J

Thanks for the reply…

Here’s the “error” in action…

https://www.6rc.org/?cat=6

Without the third entry with more, the page displays correctly. As soon as I add the more tag to the 3rd entry it breaks…

J