Kevin Kwok

In my experience any flash parameter code always over powers anything. you can even put z-index:9999999999999999999999999999999999999; haha

Shane G’s solution worked exactly right for me.

I went to my Loop.php file and found this:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

and replaced it with:
<?php the_content(); ?>

This happened to me also, when i went to wp-content, the upload folder was not even there. I created one. then tried to upload a image via my blog again and still same error so i change chmod settings on uploada folder to 777 and it fixed it.

ALCHYMYTH
youre a genius it worked. I used your alternate method it was just missing a space and the period after the last initial so I changed it a little to this:

<?php echo the_author_meta('first_name'); ?>
<?php echo ('&nbsp;'); ?>
<?php echo substr(get_the_author_meta('last_name'),0,1).'.'; ?>

Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you.

I’m so sure I’ve seen this before, I think if I am unable to figure it out maybe I can edit each profile and add a nickname to be “Barack O.” and just tell wordpress to display nickname, but I hope it does not come to that.

Michael! This was amazing, I just have to tweak it a little but thank you! Will let you know of the final results.

Once again you have saved the day.

hm tried that it seemed to to just display the the name like this

ObamaBarack

thanks though.

This is a snippet of my code :

foreach($posts as $post){
    setup_postdata($post);
    childtheme_post_header();

if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true))
	echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true).'"/>';
else
    echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.bloginfo('url').'" />';
    echo the_author_meta('first_name');
    echo ('&nbsp;');
    echo the_author_meta('last_name');
}

but my latest fix is:

if(strlen($the_author_lastname->lastint) >1){
echo substr(last_lastint(),0,1);
}
else{
last_lastint();
}

I’m trying to do something similar to this here

I tried this :

echo substr($the_author_lastname->last_name, 0, 1);

and

echo substr(the_author_lastname(),0,1);

didnt do anything =(

what about last_name short code for authors? so its like Brack O.

ok i found out this code:

<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>

but it doesnt show the number of posts each month has, any ideas?

ive been told it requires custom coding…

wheres michael when i need him! =(

if(isset($_GET['sortby']))
	$sortby = $_GET['sortby'];
else
	$sortby = 'DESC';
$cat_args = array(
	'orderby' => 'ID',
	'order' => $sortby,	// New Code
	'number' => 12
	);
if(is_numeric($_GET['paged']))
add_filter('post_limits', 'test_limits');
function test_limits($limits)
{
$var = (12 * $_GET['paged']);
return "{$var}, 12";
}

This is the section of code from my index.php

that basically tells wordpress to display the 12 newest categories in descending order. notice the variable “paged” I think I have to do something here…. to make it so “older posts” link displays the next set of 12 categories, but I’m unsure how right now.

I think I got the phrasing down of what I am asking.

Is there a way to paginate categories? So that each time I click next page it shows the next 12 categories.