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cool. thanks !

i looked at both of those. the workaround is a little over my head, but i will keep working on it (lots of folks said it worked for them). i searched for plugins, but found nothing really like what i’m needing.

if the epoch hap’d in 1969, why does it only affect dates prior to 1900 on my site ?

any thoughts ?

that codex info was exactly what i needed, thanks again.

however, i didn’t see a way to place the individual title of the last post in that category; only the title of ‘category’ or ‘user_defined’.

is there a way to use that wp_list_categories and take advantage of the exclude function, but still have the added bonus of the ‘latest post’ function of that plugin?

i am still reading thru that and digesting it; thank you for that. is it possible to have the post title using the wp_list_categories ?

[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] – youtube

[GVIDEO][/GVIDEO] – google

[BV][/BV] – break.com

(i think)

here it is…

i never did find a solution, and over time and upgrades it stopped doing it.

Sure ! sorry, i’m not used to being asked; i’m usually the asker (is that a word?)

it was actually real easy, and i’m not sure if this is the most efficient way to do it, but this is what i did:

1) Each of the 12 categories got their own template called category-1.php, category-2.php, etc.
2) In the template, i used this:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/leftsidebar.php'); ?>

which is from the regular page and index templates. However, I created two new sidebars called ‘leftsidebarpage.php and rightsidebarpage.php’ and called those on each of the category templates

3) I went back in and installed information that was unique to that category on the template ‘sidebars’.

4) When the time comes and information that is completely unique needs to be in one of the sidebars, then i can create ‘rightsidebarpageREGIONX.php’ and call it

it is still very much under construction, but here is a look at it: Texas-Fire.com (check the ‘Regional Information’ links to see each of the categories). right now the right sidebar (which is what got me started on this) has Google ads in it, but that will be replaced with the unique information for each category (region)

practiced, studied hard, and fig’d it out. no i don’t need 12.

Hello, Sorry to bring this one back up, but I am not understanding something.

I am wanting to do the same thing, and I understand that the answer for this is all over the Codex and the Forums, I have read all of them and just can’t seem to get them to work.

I have a conditional in my ‘sidebar’ file that says:

<?php if (is_home()) : ?>

and then there is a ‘column three’ that makes the index page a 4 column layout with all of the other pages being 3 column.

What I am trying to do is leave the left sidebar alone and make a different right sidebar for each of the categories (12 of them). I have an individual template for each category (using the ‘category-x.php’ method) because we will be styleing each of the 12 categories much differently than each other. As such, we would like a custom right sidebar for each, but leave the left sidebar alone.

Everytime I try to place the conditional in the ‘sidebar.php’ file, it gives an error on both the index and the category page. don’t I need 12 sidebars and a conditional in each category template page ?

Thanks in advance …

cool. thanks.

has there been any movement on this in terms of a plugin or ??

thanks

rock on. i will give that a shot. thanx amillions….

cool. thanks for the advice. i looked all thru that codex page about the excerpt and category templates. i did create a category template, and that is working out well. i now understand why to do that; gave me much more control over the look of it. But; (smile) still it is showing the whole post and not just the excerpt.

i went back to my index page and took that code mentioned above off; didn’t help.

i went into a different site that i have that does the categories like i want, copied the page over – still doesn’t work.

i think in all this shucking and jiveing i’ve done that i just ‘overcoded’ something, if that makes sense. i don’t know what else to do since i have started from scratch and followed the codex 3 times and still it doesn’t work. any other direction ?