MAD000

Kountz,
try moving the
<?php $more = 0 ?>
just after the while loop. it worked with me after long trials and errors.

here my version of the loop for my custom Blog page

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main">
	<?php global $more; ?>
	<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=10');
	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
	<?php $more = 0; ?>
		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<div class="thumbnail">
				<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post-thumbnail', true); ?>" width="200" height="200" alt="Post Image" /></a>
			</div><!-- thumbnail ends -->
			<div class="entry">
				<h1 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
				<small class="post-info"><strong>Posted: </strong><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> in <?php the_category(', ') ?> by <?php the_author() ?></small>
				<div class="post-desc">
					<?php the_content('Read more'); ?><span class="post-comments"><?php comments_popup_link('0 Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><!-- post ends -->
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	</div><!-- content ends -->

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Gangleri,
<span> is used to display a background image for the comments link. It acts like a button.

Any ideas why the “Read more” won’t show in the post ?

Can u explain how you resolved the issue. Which version of IE are using?

Daniel,
use the following css to style your menu:

#my-menu {
	background: transparent url('images/bg_mainmenu.jpg');
	width: 1124px;
	height: 35px;
text-align: center;
}

#my-menu .current_page_item {
	background-color: black;
}

#my-menu li:hover {
	background-color: white;
}

#my-menu ul {
padding: 7px;
}

#my-menu li {
display: inline;
	list-style: none;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 14px;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 7px;
}

#my-menu a {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
}

This should display the menu in the center.

MAD from https://flashjourney.com/

Hi all,
I have been trying to find a simpler, more efficient way to display different posts depending on different conditions. For now I wrote the following script to retrieve posts for a specific category named ‘Inspiration’ and that should be displayed in descending order based on the number of comments (popularity). I would welcome any suggestions to shorten this (I feel there is another way!!)
here is the code:

<div class="inspirational-post-box"><!-- start -->
<h1 class="heading-small">Inspirational Posts</h1>
<?php $sql = "SELECT * "
	. "FROM $wpdb->posts AS p "
	. "WHERE p.post_status = 'publish' "
	. "AND p.post_type = 'post' "
	. "AND p.ID IN (SELECT tr.object_id "
	. "FROM $wpdb->term_relationships tr "
	. "WHERE tr.term_taxonomy_id IN (SELECT tt.term_taxonomy_id FROM wp_term_taxonomy AS tt "
	. "INNER JOIN $wpdb->terms AS t ON t.term_id = tt.term_id "
	. "WHERE (tt.term_id = (SELECT tt.term_taxonomy_id "
	. "FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS tt "
	. "INNER JOIN $wpdb->terms AS t ON tt.term_id = t.term_id "
	. "WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'category' AND t.name = 'Inspiration') OR tt.parent = (SELECT tt.term_taxonomy_id "
	. "FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS tt "
	. "INNER JOIN $wpdb->terms AS t ON tt.term_id = t.term_id "
	. "WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'category' AND t.name = 'Inspiration')))) "
	. "ORDER BY p.comment_count DESC LIMIT 12";
$result = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<div class="entry-small">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img class="thumbnail-small" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post-thumbnail', true); ?>" width="50" height="50" alt="Small Thumbnail" /></a>
<h2 class="title-small">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</h2>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div><!-- end -->

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Hi Daniel,
you can use the following script for the pages menu:

<div id="my-menu">
<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=1'); ?>
</div><!-- my-menu ends -->

The above code will show a menu of all blog pages including home page.

The css for this depends on your theme color and sizes, but try this:

#my-menu {
	float: left;
	width: 1020px;
	height: 35px;
}

#my-menu .current_page_item {
	background-color: lightred;
}

#my-menu li:hover {
	background-color: darkblue;
}

#my-menu li {
	float: left;
	list-style: none;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 14px;
	text-align: center;
	height: 28px;
	padding-top: 7px;
	padding-left: 5px;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

#my-menu a {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #8D95CD;
}

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I tried the same and it did not work, here is my CSS:

* {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

body {
	font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
	text-align: center;
	background: url(images/bg.jpg) repeat-x #EDEDED;
	font-size: 14px;
	color: #000;
}

ul {
	list-style-type: none;
}

a, a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #000;
}

a:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a img {
	border-style: none;
}

#page {
	width: 1020px;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

I am still trying to finish up my new Theme, it looks fantastic on Fire Fox (best browser). I still have to tackle the many IE (all versions, even 8!!) issues.

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Thanks for code I was looking for something similar to put in our new theme for https://flashjourney.com/ that will be launched soon.

I took your code and tweaked it a little bit. You can use the following to get the siblings of the current category:

<br />
<?php<br />
if (is_category()) {<br />
$this_category = get_category($cat);<br />
if (get_category_children($this_category->cat_ID) != "") {<br />
wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0&title_li=&child_of=' . $this_category->cat_ID);<br />
}<br />
else {<br />
$parent = $this_category->category_parent;<br />
echo "children of " . $parent . ": ";<br />
wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0&title_li=&child_of=' . $parent);<br />
}<br />
}<br />
?><br />

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