Minna

At least the site you provided (“wordblah”) is still 1.5…
Did you remember to change the parametre in wp_list_cats?

I noticed the hack is a plugin after all: WP Grins. My bad ?? It’s for 1.2 but I have it working on my 1.5.1.3.

The instructions (if I remember correctly…) are the same for the comment area, but if you want the smileys for posts as well, there is a different place you have to put the code. I can dig it out if you want.

If you take a look at the file vars.php in wp-includes you’ll see the list of smileys available. If you want, you can remove the space in front of the facial expressions but that may cause smileys in places where they are not intended. Perhaps you could provide clickable smileys for your commenters? That way they’d also know about the whole selection instead of just the basic ones. Alex King has a hack, but I don’t know if there’s a plugin…

OK, that is weird. Would you mind putting the post by a different user back so we could take another look? Unless that site is up and running, so to speak, and you don’t want oddities showing.

Validating the page shows that you have a couple of errors in the HTML. They could cause the odd behaviour in IE. First of all, you’re missing the closing </body> and </html> tags. Second, you have several <div id="topcontent">s and IDs have to be unique.

So I’m guessing IE can’t contain the post area in the correct width because of the errors. (Or it could just be IE’s differing opinion on how paddings and margins are done…)

I just noticed you use WP1.5. I wonder if there was a bug in 1.5 regarding hierarchical listing… that’s the last thing I can think of.

Heh, actually, after searching for a bit, there is a bug in WP1.5. Would you consider upgrading? ??

Note to self: always check the WP version first……

That first bit of code works for me and it indents the subcategories and your stylesheet should be working correctly too. The bit that affects the subcategories is
#sidebar ul ul ul, #sidebar ul ol {
margin: 0 0 0 10px;
}
which is found after “/* Begin Lists” in style.css. Those numbers are in the order of top, right, bottom, left, so 10px is the margin for left hand side.

So, currently the code you have on that page you mentioned (“wordblah”) doesn’t do hierarchical category lists. Try putting the first bit of code back (the Kubrick default). If even that doesn’t work, are you sure “interest” is a subcategory of Uncategorized? ?? The source code should look something like this:
<ul>
<li>Uncategorized
<ul class='children'>
<li>interest</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

You can exclude it from the page listing

@kyd: you don’t need to customize CSS individually for each category (well, I’m sure you could, depending on the approach you take… ?? )

Did you check the wp_list_cats() thing I mentioned up there? If you have a parametre hierarchical=1 inside the function/tag, what are you getting out? What does the list look like now?

An answer

kyd, can you let us see your site?

@kyd: No worries, I’ll take a look at the Kubrick code and tell where to look ?? Unless someone beats me to it.

Code looked at
1. Well, first of all, as a default Kubrick doesn’t show categories in a hierarchical list (see wp_list_cats in the sidebar and check that hierarchical=1 not 0). If that doesn’t change indenting, go to step 2.
2. Kubrick theme assigns a class “children” to the child categories/lists so you could add in your style.css (if it isn’t there already)
ul.children {
margin-left: 5px; /* adjust to your liking */
}

Take a look at moshu’s response above. The arrows mark the spots.

Ugh, how annoying (and weird)…
What about splitting it up:
<?php
echo "<img src=\"";
echo bloginfo('url') ;
echo "/images/nav_$nav_id.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"30\" alt=\"{$nav_title}\" />"; ?>
?? That works, I tried.

oh yeah, echo smacked the stuff in weird places (or actually, I must’ve been using it wrong all these years ?? ). Try print instead