maestro42

look in your theme folder – header.php – near the top there should be a <title> tag that does it.

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

no problem.

because that is what the developers of wordpress decided to do.

thanks – both of your responses are very helpful. i understand what is going on now.

as for what to do to solve it – i am not sure how to. i wouldn’t even know where to start. i agree it would have to be a plugin. i’ll muck around and see what i can find – but if anyone has any thoughts let me know.

thanks, those suggestions make sense, but does anybody know if there is an underlying reason why WordPress does not create an author page if the person doesn’t make a post – and then how maybe to change this?

Two ways that I can think of:

1) – Just edit your theme’s index.php file to make it look how you want. Put in the content you want to have and then move around The Loop to where you want the blog posts to be.

2) – As long as you call the include wp-blog-header.php call – you can access The Loop from any page. There is also a good plugin that I have used extensively, Customizable Post Listings that you can take a look at to customize the output of your blog posts. Using this plugin, you don’t need to use The Loop, it’s a simple php function call.

the code button is for you put in code – so people actually see the code – not to run the code. it is actually used for the opposite purpose you are trying – it is so the code is specifically not run.

This Depends on what type of code you are trying to insert – it seems to me that you are trying to paste code into the area where you type up a new post (When you login to the WP Admin panel – and begin to write a new post). Here, you can only put basic <a> links, etc. It doesn’t read javascript or php (without a proper plugin).

This is not what you want to do. You need to actually edit your current themes template file for the page(s) that you want the banner to show up on.

wp-content/themes/yourtheme/ folder.

For example, if you want to add a banner to every post page, once a user clicks on the link to view just that single post – you would edit the single.php file – from there you paste in the banner code that you want to display.

Does your theme have an author.php template file ?

Check Author Templates for details.

If WordPress can’t find author.php or archive.php it defaults to index.php.

Start there.

That information is for the entire blog, it is not specific to the user logging in. It will give that info on the dashboard for any user logging in.

If you go into the WordPress Admin section. Click on the link that says “Settings”. Once there you will be able to see the option to change the Tagline. Type in what you want and hit the “Save Changes” button at the bottom and you’re all set.

okay. thanks. i see it now.

i’d be interested in this solution for 2.6 – want to restrict certain users from posting in certain categories.

i tried limitcats, role manager, and userextra/usermeta – none seem to be working for me….

i tried get_the_category() and it worked fine, even outside the Loop

just a quick question.

I have a function that gets passed the post_id. So I want to get 2 things, the content and the category.

I use:

$usepostid = get_post($post_ID);
         $sendcontent = $usepostid->post_content;

to get the content – but i saw that post_category doesn’t work anymore. It says to use get_post_category() – but only within the loop. How can I get the post category ID outside the loop ?

Thanks!