marc0047

I’m creating a different page altogether, and it also doesn’t reside in the Themes folder. I have the page residing in the root directory of the WP folder.

Is there a way to write a proper query that will make it function for this page?

Thanks.

I tried the following again on a fresh WP database and it worked:

<?php
$page = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
query_posts(“cat=3&showposts=2&paged=$page”);
?>

However, whenever I selected any of the categories, it didn’t isolate the page according to the categories. The pages reloaded but with the same content, and the posts_nav_link content disappeared.

This is what is in my navigation div:

<div class=”navigation”>

<div class=”alignleft”><?php posts_nav_link(”,”,’« Previous Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php posts_nav_link(”,’Next Entries »’,”) ?></div>

</div>

Both my URIs are set to

https://minus.ws/note

which should be correct. Or amI wrong…???

Syllani –

If you don’t mind, please post your version of the code. It would be helpful for me to check for inconsistencies.

Thanks.

What I had done was I moved the directory. And I thought I had taken care to adjust all the MySQL variables, but maybe I didn’t?

Any other tips based on that clue? Thanks for responding.

I ran the test just to see what would happen, and you’re right, all sorts of messed up!

But it’s still good to know what’s recommend. Thank you!

Thanks Kafkaesqui.

Actually, the posts_nav_link doesn’t show up at all. The content, such as ‘previous’ and ‘next’ don’t show up at the bottom of the page, as you can see here.

I went ahead and plugged in the code you suggested to see if it would solve both the content appearance and functionality, but I can’t get it to show up at all.

If you have any other suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it!

Doing the $posts as $post technique would have been really nice to use, but unfortunately it didn’t work. The ouput were posts with just the titles (but also as links to the actual story), and the navigation still failed to show up. But that’s still a good trick to know! Thanks!

I’m also not keen on using the plugin because I’m creating these other pages by hand code as opposed to using WP’s Pages.

‘&paged1’ also unfortunately didn’t work.

More suggestions would be great!

Here are two snapshots combined into one:

https://you.minus.ws/HelpMe/dropdowncats.gif

The top half is a snap of MSIE 6 plus the code that is rendered. The bottom half is a snap of how it ought to appear, as it does in Mozilla.

Here is the PHP call:

<!– Drop down box style of categories –>
<form id=”catdropdown” name=”catform” action=”/index.php”>
<select name=”cat” onchange=”submit(this.form)”>
<option value=”>By Topic</option>
<?php dropdown_cats(); ?>
</select>
</form>

Thanks! Can’t believe I missed that article!

So close! Thanks. How she contained them will be very helpful.

I still need to figure out how the parent categories can be swapped out with image text.

Thanks for the lead. It lead me to discover that you can in fact do it:

Rather than create pages through the interface of WP, I created my own ‘about.php’ file in the root WP directory. This is the code inside ‘about.php’:

<?php
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

Delicious About content

<?php get_footer(); ?>

As long as I include the require tag to call ‘wp-blog-header.php’ it seems to be all good. But I need to know more about what is ‘wp-blog-header.php’ to anticipate any future problems!

I have another question regarding this topic, but am unsure where to look for it in the wiki docs. If anyone can point the way, it would be greatly appreciated!

Is there a way to call the top level categories (ie. Fruit, Animal) in the php code individually? So for example, I would like to have a single entry that has the following:

1. Title
2. Body content
3. Related subcategory links fo the Fruit category only: Apple, Banana

(Meanwhile the sidebar will always have the full list of search capability).

Thanks.

Oh my goodness. Thank you! You helped me figured it out:

<?php list_cats(
false, /* optionall */
”, /* all */
‘id’, /* sort column */
‘asc’, /* sort order */
”, /* file */
true, /* list */
false, /* optiondate */
false, /* optioncount */
false, /* hide_empty */
true, /* use_desc_for_title */
true, /* child_of */
false, /* categories */
”, /* recurse */
false, /* feed */
”, /* feed_img */
”, /* exclude */
‘1, 33’,/* hierarchical */
true <b>/* What is this? */</b>
); ?>

By the way what is that last argument for? I can’t seem to find it in the documentation.

Thanks again!