Spencer Finnell

Can you post a link to the site?

Thanks

The documentation on wp_dropdown_categories shows that you can add a parameter of show_option_all

<?php
	wp_dropdown_categories( array(
		'show_option_all' => 'Select Category'
	) );
?>

So you can set that to “Select Category”, which will return a value of 0 if it is left on that option.

You need to Import your content from the old installation into the new one. Export your current WordPress intall and import it to the new one.

What is not working right now?

And just to be clear: you have a page, which you use to display the title/content of it’s child pages (similar to a normal blog layout) and you’d like to be able to page through them?

If I understand you correctly, I think you want Custom Page Templates.

What you have now should style the
<li> with a class of .comment-author-admin The comments by the admin will have that class applied to them no matter what depth they are.

Check out this page for information on customizing what content is displayed.

Specifically, you can use <!--more--> to stop the post content from displaying after a certain point on the homepage.

Are you using the custom menu management? If so, make sure you have “Automatically add new top-level pages” checked. Otherwise you have to add them manually.

You should use wp_enqueue_script to call the rest of your jQuery files.

What you have right now should call jQuery. You sure it’s not being loaded?

You can use the following, which doesn’t require you to find the ID of the page (and will also update if you change pages)

<a href="<?php echo get_permalink( get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) ); ?>">View News</a>

It’s the same as vtxyzzy’s, but it just gets the option you selected as the posts page, as opposed to a static ID.

You should check out Mark Jaquith’s post: https://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

You can set a featured image when creating a post, then use the code in Mark’s post to display the image on the different parts of the site.

If your theme has a category.php template, you’ll want to edit that for the small image, and edit single.php to display the full size image.

EDIT: Ah nevermind, didn’t quite have it setup right. I can now confirm I have the same problem.