perpetualjon

You may want to look into WP-Optimize. I’ve been using it for about 6 months and it seems to help keep the database from getting out of hand…

If any of you have experience in WordPress hosting migrations without any downtime, I’d be interested in hearing it…

Any progress on this issue? I’m having the same problem. I can’t seem to upgrade 2.9.1 to 2.9.2. When I attempt the automatic upgrade, I get a page that asks for a Hostname, Username, Password, and Connection Type. I’ve tried using my control panel login information, MySQL login info, etc, but just can’t seem to get it to work…

Is the manual upgrade fairly similar to a fresh installation? I can’t imagine it is…

Awesome! I’ll check it out. Thanks again Sayontan.

Ok, how about if I modified the category.php file to create a 3-column table to list all posts by thumbnail that fall under a certain category? Would that work? Am I on the right track?

Thanks so much for your quick responses!! You truly are a valuable help to the community here.

Ditto to all the other commenters. I’ve used both free and premium themes in the past and usually have a terrible time bending them to my will. This was by far the most pleasant experience I’ve ever had. Fantastic job!!

Yeah, I can easily make a CSS drop-down menu. The problem is how to incorporate this into a WordPress theme format. I’d like to take the CSS code for a drop-down menu and make it a function of the Page hierarchy…

I think I’m going to translate code in the CSS calls on the page that normally do something like:

li **link URL and label** /li
to something like:

li <?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&sort_column=menu_order’); ?> /li
I then put that in the header.php file and I’m good.
Does that make sense?

**DELETE**

So this is strange. I have this code in the Main Index Template:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

…and if I just change it to this:

<!–<?php get_sidebar(); ?>–>

I successfully removes the sidebar from the browser in Firefox. In IE, it is still there (along with that fragment of the commenting code). In the mean time, I’ve just deleged this line from the template file and that works but I’d rather not delete code unless I absolutely HAVE to. Any ideas why it works this way?

Looks like it happens when I try and “comment out” the sidebar. If I do this in the Main Index Template, it works for Firefox but not for IE. Any ideas how I can eliminate hide the sidebar cleanly without just deleting the code from the file?

The same bug? I’ve crawled over all the code on both themes and can’t seem to find a single unclosed comment. I’ll zip up each theme and post them up here a little later if that might help…

What do you mean by “edit the sql syntax”? I can open the .sql file in notepad and see the original database name in plain text but is it just that simple?

Well, now that I’m using 2.7, I realized that there is a feature (maybe it’s been there all along) but it allows me to display a chosen Page on the initial view of the site if I chose. This solves my problem of only showing a single category on the main index template code. So much easier than the route I was taking!!

I’m actually in the same boat. Has there been a resolution to this?

Ok, that just got me the same result as the query_posts earlier function. Or am I implementing the code incorrectly? Here’s what I did:

<?php query_posts(‘showposts=175&cat=16’); ?>
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I think my main problem is that I have a “main index template” but no “page template” in the theme I’m using. Am I simply out of luck here or is there a way to successfully “opt in” posts and still render pages? I’m going to try and contact the theme creator and find out if they have a version that does use a page template as well…

Thanks everyone for all your help so far.