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Can any one help, Anything would be grateful?

yeah i wondered about that, but i didn’t really know about child themes. I’m gonna work on that tomorrow.

I actually got rid of the borders too, for me i just looked for anything that said borders in the style.css sheet and changed it to border: none;. So if you ctr-f borders and change all of them to border: none; and test out to see if it goes away it should work eventually going down the style.css.

Also i had that problem with the twenty ten theme i updated wordpress to 3.0.2 and it deleted everything i did. so i started saving the theme folder every time i update so i can change it back. I need to figure out how to convert the theme to a child theme. That would be nice not having to worry about it disappearing. I was very upset when it happened.

I finally got it, i made the template work now like a normal blog posts sorted by category, creating 3 or however many you want featured posts, having the read more feature work with the posts, and have the style.css control the styles of the texts and titles.

These had good info on building a template with posts and sorting by category and other things The Loop

I figured out that you have to pretty much manually add a few things to a template page for it to work right.

So here is the final template My Page of Posts category template i made

to pick what category is uses for the posts. You go to the page editor and in the “custom fields” “name” write category, then in “value” write the category of the posts you want. To change the number of posts it shows you change the number here <?php if ($count <= 3) : ?>

but basically you can use parts of the code here to get it to do what you want, im sure it can help.

I finally got it, i made the template work now like a normal blog posts sorted by category, creating 3 featured posts, having the read more feature work with the posts, and have the style.css control the styles of the texts and titles.

Soem how you gave me an idea and i found the right document

These had good info on building a template with posts and sorting by category and other things The Loop
I figured out that you have to pretty much manullay add a few things to a template page for it to work right, other wise simply adding

if ($count <= 3) {
 the_title;
 the_content;
} else {
  the_title;
}

just places the raw text and title on the page and doesn’t work well.

So here is the final template My Page of Posts template

Thanks for the help.

Are you sure you are using the right url link for the pictures on the host.

Im not sure but its possible you might be using a address thats related to pictures on your computer. Make sure you have the right url from the pictures on bluehost like “https://www.bluehost.com/dev/pictures/image.jpg”
The url address should end with the image file name and start with http.

Just thought i put that out there.

Thanks Devin, yeah i didn’t think about that, sorry though i didnt know about pastebin.com so thanks and here is the link to my template code at pastebin.com Template code

Im going to try and look at some of this and see if i can get anything to work.

I tried putting that in, yet it still doesn’t work, i tried re-uploading the image and setting it as the featured. Just to make sure, i should be changing that code in the header.php right? I dont see anything like that anywhere else, but im not for sure.

Also wondering is it possible to write that line so it shows the featured image no matter what, sorta like if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) &&

Can anyone help, any information would be grateful!

or since i would always want the featured image to show, what about taking out singular so that if it has post thumbnails it shows it?

But howd i write that out
if has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) &&

yeah i found it, and tried it. But it did not work, probably because like i said its not a home page or front page its just a secondary page with the blog on it.

So what would it be called? A blog_page???

Cause im sure what your saying would work, makes sense.

I see what you mean, though i’m not sure where to find that, do you know what type of file it be in functions.php?

Also just in case you didn’t know i changed my front / home page to a static page and made my second page the blog page, so you still think it might work.

well im trying to do pretty much what your doing though im just having some problems with the way the posts come out on the page maybe you could figure it out, but it works basically. heres my post Here

Its has the ability to control what category posts it displays using the custom fields in the page editor, simple write category in the “name box” and your category you want in the “value box”. Also its can show a number of posts that you change in the template and then shows the rest as titles. but you can take that part out. Not much of a coder, hope you can tell what parts are which but here the link to the template i put together template page of posts

IS there still no answer?

WOW it was that simple, i new it couldnt be that hard. deleteing the photo and then changing the size, then re uploading it let it auto crop it to the right size. Thank You So Much. Can’t believe i’ve spent 5 days trying to figure this out. Should of written this post on the first day.