MtnExile

Yes, I did: Easy Restaurant Menu Manager.

According to the plugin page, 39% of users say it’s broken in 3.2.1. Possibly it’s not as harmless as you think. At any rate, it does nothing to fix my problem with SimpleModal Login.

Well…I installed it, enabled it, and it immediately screwed up my entire site. Luckily, I was still able to trash it.

Thanks.

Next.

And this will do…what?

Thanks, that did it.

That’s functioning correctly–by which I mean, it’s drawing from the custom field if the post is in category ‘3’, and printing only the comment count otherwise. But it’s also doing something screwy, and danged if I can figure out why.

You have ‘From ‘ preceding the custom field value; but it’s printing out like this:

The New York TimesFrom |15 comments ?

That gave me a parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

I also tried this

<?php if (is_category('3') ) { ?>
    <p class="attribution">From the <?php if ( function_exists( 'get_custom_field_value' ) ) get_custom_field_value( 'Attribution', true ); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment &raquo;', '% comments &raquo;'); ?></p>
<?php } elseif (is_category('-3') ) { ?>
    <p class="attribution"><?php comments_popup_link('No comments', '1 comment &raquo;', '% comments &raquo;'); ?></p>
<?php } ?>

and that didn’t throw an error, but it also didn’t work. I doesn’t print out the custom field value.

Fixed it. It helps enormously if you’re actually applying the change to the right line, which should have been

$link = '<a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-login" href="' . esc_url( wp_login_url( get_permalink() ) ) . '">' . $login_text . '</a>';

So it’s working perfectly now. One last question: is there a way to accomplish this without changing a core file?

Brand new site. Still in the development stage, so this is something that never has worked the way I want it.

Yes! That worked. Imagine…using a while loop will actually call multiple posts. Who’da thunk?

/sarcasm directed at self

Well, that helped, but we’re still not there.

This is the entire block of relevant code:

<div class="static" id="casePosts" style="display: block;">

    <?php $acs->query_posts(array('group_name' => 'Case')); ?>

    <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

        <h6 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>

        <div class="entry-content">
            <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            <p class="readMore"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">More »</a></p>
        </div><!-- .entry-content -->

    </div><!-- #post-## -->

</div>

You can see, I’ve made the change to the $acs query_posts, but I still just get the title of the page instead of the posts in that category. It’s not recursive now–it only prints it out once–but it’s still wrong.

I hadn’t realized it was creating a special class, but it was.

<div id="post-145" class="post-145 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-case">

“category-case” is the relevant class. All I have to do is

#leftColumn .category-case .info
	{
	display: none;
		}

and the problem is taken care of. Thanks for the suggestion.

But I DID use a loop looking for only a certain category:

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=3'); ?>

This is what works for the sidebar; it doesn’t work in a page. And if WordPress “knows” that what I want is an About Us post, WordPress is wrong.

So my original question still stands: how do you generate a list of posts on a static page?

Bagel, thanks for trying to help. I really do appreciate it, because it can be difficult to get answers to very basic questions. As it turns out, I did some more looking at other themes and some Googling, and figured out what to do to get the custom menus working. After that it was easy.

I should also say that you’re wrong to think I’m “confused.” What I am is pig-ignorant. I don’t know enough to be confused about anything.

There is no such feature in my dashboard menu. Under “Appearance” there are “Themes,” “Widgets,” and “Editor,” but no “Menu.”

And no, I simply copied the code from another theme and it seemed to work. I told you this was a very basic question.