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Thanks again spencerp. I really appreciate the screenshots. Although, for right now, I’m kind of inclined to leave the left padding off, because if I don’t, my only option will be to significantly reduce the size of the right column. I have this at 200 pixels now. Does this look bad having everything left aligned?

Also, does anyone who uses semiologic know how to remove the spacing between the header and the navbar? What’s really strange about this is it doesn’t happen on the individual posts.

Hi Spencerp, thanks again. I just lined up the blog entries to match the nav bar. Does this lead to less scrolling in 800×600?

More importantly though, does this still look good not having the entries intented?

Hi spencerp, thanks! But those images are at 1024×768 though, right? If possible, could you post what it looks like at 800×600? I’m guessing you get massive scrolling, right?

Also, I thought about making the sidebar text smaller. Right now I’ve decided to let it go longer though, and haven’t tried lining this up with the navbar. I may do so though if folks think this looks trashy. Is this your impression?

Hi Moshu, I’m using the Semiologic theme, but am using the structured blogging template (specifically the hReview one) for the actual blog entries. For some reason this doesn’t have an excerpt field. Would this be an easy think to take the excerpt field from the default template and load it into the structured blogging template?

Erb, I’ve got the code you have posted working at the bottom of my entries (versus in the sidebar). Do you know how I would modify the code you posted to sort the results alphabetically by title instead of by date? Thanks!

Kafkaesqui, is it possible to use something like the <!–more–> comment for just the category pages? I want my posts on the main page to be full, but if someone selects a category page, I would like to cut it off early.

Hi Moshu, I guess I have an answer to this question (“why would anyone display posts of a category on pages?”) as I’ve already done this. I am not a coder at all (more of a fiddler), so maybe there are better ways to do this (I still can’t even figure out how to get a custom sidebar page showing, but that’s another post).

In any event, if you go here:

https://cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-movies-by-decade/

This shows a Page that has all the posts from each of the various “sub-categories” for the category “Decade.” For some reason, I am never able to get my categories to show up in the category fields. I use higher level categories only as organizing levels such as “Decade” (with no posts) > “Movies from 1990-1999” (with lots of posts). Dennis from Semiologic claims the reason for this not working in categories (sub-categories with posts not showing up when the higher level one has no posts) is due to a bug in WordPress, and that he’s reported it. In any event, the way I have it works well enough for what I want.

In any event, I used the phpExec plugin and then the Category Posts plugin (https://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software/wp-category-posts.html) inside of it to create the type of page I want.

Also, if you go and look at the bottom of any single post (movie review), I’m also trying to get all the posts from its child categories to show up in a customized sidebar. Again, I’m too stupid to figure this out yet, but I at least have them sitting at the bottom of the post.

Just an follow-up, I think see two separate things I’m supposed to do. I have the single.php file that looks like this:
<?php
require_once(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/header.php’);

the_posts();

require_once(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/footer.php’);
?>

Then I think I’m supposed to do something with these two commands – I’ve tried various ways of combining them, to no avail:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/mysidebar.php’); ?>

I’m still only at best getting this code working below my post. I have the code loaded into the mysidebar.php file, and can get it showing up at the bottom of the post, but that’s it. For an example, see:
https://cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/cherry-2000/

I’m using phpExec plugin to do this and it works fine. It allows you to call up php code from your pages:

https://priyadi.net/archives/2005/03/02/wordpress-php-exec-plugin/

Just add a space between p tags

& n b s p ;

Like that.

EDIT: NOt sure how to make that not hide so I added a space between each character. Just do the P tags with that in between.

erb, your code is almost exactly what I want (except that I want all the posts from that category showing up, but I can modify the number).

My question is a real newbie question – how do I load this into my side bar? Even more specifically, how do I make a different side bar for single posts, and where do I call it from my single.php file? Thanks in advance.

Hi Denis. Thank you very much for responding, and for your most excellent plugin! Let me try this and see how it works.

Hi Arlo, Thanks. I was actaully trying to get this working in the structured blogging plugin using the hReview format. I did figure out how to get the 1 – 10 stars working. This is specified in the “mc_renderers.php” file. If anyone is looking to do this, find this code snippet from the mc_renderers.php file:

$min = empty($min) ? 0 : intval($min);
$max = empty($max) ? 5 : intval($max);

and switch it to this:

$min = empty($min) ? 1 : intval($min);
$max = empty($max) ? 10 : intval($max);

Wow, this is a great idea! I’m interested in using this same idea for similar reasons to badMike, but I’m using the Semiologic CMS pluggin and them. This doesn’t have a single.php page. Does anyone know where I should try inserting the code into the Semiologic theme?

Bump…is anyone using the structured blogging stuff?