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Found it! Just the cat_ID number … nothing else, just the digit.

I second that … I only need to exclude one category and it’s not excluding what I entered. Is there a specific way I need to add a category to exclude it? I’ve tried the slug and the name ~ neither works?

I read that too and I also find it is not true ~ at least not as is at the time the comment was made. Apparently it’s a big secret because no one will answer any inquiries about it either.

The br doesn’t show in Netscape either so it must be a Mozilla thang. (not that this helps you any ??

FYI: it does not render properly in Netscape & “requires” horizontal nav in Mozilla.

It’s using Fantastico ~ normally if someone downloads wp they can then change the config file prior to install but because I was using Fantastico I don’t actually even have a copy of the config file prior to install. Thanks for hanging in there with me on this one. Gotta just do it manually for all subsequent copies which require db sharing.

I’m totally confused ~ some of it’s syntax. This cannot be as simple as changing the table prefix in the config.php & running install.php again. Is there something else?
I don’t know what Fantastico does technically behind the UI but it runs the WP install and simply asks if you want to install in a sub-dir & sets up admin username/pw & email username/pw ~ nothing fancy there. I did end up with the wp files in sub-dir /book & two sets of tables. After that I get a page of errors & now I can’t even log into the first blog I setup. I’m at a total loss since my initial install worked just fine ~ I had already made several entries after install ~ so it’s most likely not my host. Am I supposed to change the table prefix back after the second blog?

I clicked anyway and did not explode. It did run through the install again and create another set of tables. I was under the impression I was going to end up with another instance but this is not really. I did get another copy, so to speak, but I can’t admin login. I checked the config for the password and that is ok but the user name is the database name not the user name that I entered prompted by the fantastico install. Anyone out there gone through this already?

I am all over this!! It renders just fine as is in Netscape 7.1. Using Ctrl-+/- to resize has a behavior unlike the other two behiviors I have seen ~ the calendar expands over the main col. With all other templates I have seen either 1) calendar gets ‘lopped off’; or 2) calendar expands into ‘alley’. I’m ok with this new way.
I am going to load up a new copy of WP using this template right now & I’ll report back when I’m done. Thanks much!! ~ signed Big3ColFan

Thanks for all the input. Catagories/sub-cats for books & chapters using semantic titles may work since I am not absolutely sure of the order when it comes to certain details of the material. Is this ‘display entries by page’ a feature using a simple PHP line of code?
It’s not that I’m just writing 5 or 7 separate books in series ~ the material is connected. Here is more on what I am attempting to do: Say I am describing 5 closed systems or processes. Each has a beginning, a middle and an end. The separate middles of each of these systems become intertwinded. There is a point where this middle becomes a separate ‘entity’ in and of itself. This has an affect on the anticipated outcome of each of the separate systems. The end result as a whole ends up being totally different than planned ~ say there are now 10 separate outcomes.
Ok ~ I am going to write about the 5 separate systems up to each of their middle point. I don’t want to have to write about the middle mess 5 separate times ~ just once. I want a reader to be able to start with any beginning (1,2,3,4 or 5) and get to the common middle part. From there they can end up going down one of the 10 outcomes. In some way it would be more like taking a reading on a tour of a complex knowledgebase.
Should I be using something like Drupal instead? This seems like a CMSs dream project ~ I just don’t want to have to write in MS Word and then do all the markup separately. Any input?
oh, and dss ~ “Self-centeredness is a disease!” I’d have to agree.

Ok ~ that make sense to me. Thanks again.

I’ve noticed that there are two behaviors with the calendar for WP when the increasing the page using Ctrl-+/- and that is 1) it simply move into the alley or 2) it moves under the alley and cannot be seen. In Netscape 7.1, the cal on this site stays visable. Everything else seems to size faily well with Netscape too.

Well the style is working just fine in Netscape 7.1 (& I am personally very attracted to the drawing tools with fin & face, really, I am.)

Ok, thanks podz. Next Q: The most frequent instruction to have more than one copy of WP share a db is generally something like this: ‘change the $table_prefix in your wp_config.php file for each when setting them up.’ Is this right? My host offers Fantastico so when I did an initial install I didn’t really have to do anything. I want both methods of “multiple” copies too ~ two that share a db and three that have separate dbs ~ so I just want to make sure I’ve got it straight before I dive in. Thanks!

That’s what I thought initially. I wanted some input to see if I was going for the short and easy route which may be more trouble later if I want to vary my output. Thanks for the feed.