Skippy, I had the same exact questions, and your reply worked perfectly, thanks, just got WordPress, very impressive, this was the only feature I found missing, at least after a few days. I’ll have to learn more on the archiving and mod rewrite urls for better search engine useability, but otherwise this package is really nice.
You can also use this code to check the get query variable:
if (!isset($_GET[‘cat’]))
{
$cat = 1;
}
but as far as I know they will both give the same end result.
