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  • Thread Starter truthlighthouse

    (@truthlighthouse)

    scratch that. Solved it. I messed up the embed code. :-/

    Thread Starter truthlighthouse

    (@truthlighthouse)

    I should point out that if necessary, I can do without the polls. But an absolute must is to have it be able to allow me to add whatever I need to the sidebar and not allow users to login to the dashboard.

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: randome posts at homepag

    Random Posts is a plugin that works that way. I have had trouble having it do exactly what I want but it does indeed randomize the posts. Another way is to go to index.php and find the line that <?php query_posts("showposts=1); ?> or something like that and change it to <?php query_posts("showposts=1&orderby=rand"); ?>. All that needs to be added is &orderby=rand. Again that does not always work but it worked on one of my blogs.

    Thread Starter truthlighthouse

    (@truthlighthouse)

    Thanks so much for your help! I appreciate it. I apologize about the bump. I did not know about that rule.

    As for the code you suggested, where exactly would I put that? My guess is I would replace the entire portion that pertains to the middle column in my index.php page. However, I then thought it could be that I need to replace only a portion of it. In fact, I was thinking that the part that starts with

    <?php query_posts('cat=13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,29,30,22,23,24,25,28,26,27&showposts=5'); ?>

    and that ends with

    <div class="details">

    However, I am not certain so I was hoping you might be able to help a bit further. I was concerned about going in there and changing things too much before having a general idea.

    Thanks again!

    awesome! That worked! You rock!

    Thanks so much!

    I am trying to have youtube videos show up the home page of my wordpress website. I am using the Gabfire Magazine theme. I have installed the plugin Viper’s Video Quicktags. However before I installed that, I could put the embedded video into a post and it would not show up the home page but instead would show up when the user visited the actual post. So to attempt to rectify that, I installed the Viper Quicktags plugin. Now it has a parse error that shows up and that is on the home page and the actual post. I may not have installed it correctly. My header contained <?php wp_head();?> but my footer did not contain <?php wp_footer();?> so I added it arbitrarily to a point in there. I think that might be where I messed up. Below is the footer code:

    <!-- /if you are going to place a google analytics or other track service snippet, pate it here -->
<?php wp_footer();?>
<div id="footer">
<a href="https://www.magazine-themes.com/">WP-Magazine</a> by <a href="https://www.gabfire.com/">Gabfire</a> Brought to you by <a href="https://www.playstation4communtiy.com">Playstation 4</a>, <a href="https://www.ps3-spiele-portal.de/">PS3</a> and <a href="https://www.ubiquityhosting.com">Linux Web Host</a>
</div>
</body></html>

    Below is the header code:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

	 <title>
		<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
		<?php if(is_home()) { ?>
		- <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
		<?php } ?>
		<?php if(is_single()) { ?>
		<?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?>
		<?php if(is_404()) { ?>
		- 404 Error! Page Not Found
		<?php } ?>
		<?php if(is_search()) { ?>
		- Search Results for: <?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>
		<?php } ?>
	 </title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
		@import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );
	</style>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/javascript/p7exp.js"></script>
	<!--[if lte IE 7]> <style>#menuwrapper, #p7menubar ul a {height: 1%;} a:active {width: auto;} </style> <![endif]-->
	<?php if(!is_home() ) { ?> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/print.css" /> <?php } ?>
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
	<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>

<div id="wrapper">

	<!-- Header -->
	<div id="header">

		<!-- Logo -->
		<div id="headerleft">
			<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
		</div>

		<!-- Searchbox and date -->
		<div id="headerright">
			<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/javascript/date.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
			<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
		</div>

		<!-- Header Navigation -->
		<div id="navigation">
			<ul id="p7menubar">
				<li<?php if(is_home() || is_404() || is_single() || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_search() ) { ?> class="current_page_item"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>
				<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
			</ul>
			<ul id="feeds">
					<li><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries <span class="rss">(RSS)</span></a></li>
					<li><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments <span class="rss">(RSS)</span></a></li>
			</ul>

			<div style="clear:both"></div>
		</div>

	</div>
	<!-- /Header -->

    Below is the section of index.php that I need the video to show up on:

    <!-- Middle Column -->
		<div id="midcolumn">
			<h2>Latest News</h2>
			<!-- Loop for latest news -->
			<?php $oddentry = 'class="gray" '; ?>
			<?php query_posts('cat=1,26,35,15,23,27,24,25,13&showposts=5'); ?>
			<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Center Thumbnail", true);?>" />
			<div <?php echo $oddentry; ?>>
				<div class="midcolumnpost">
					<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
					<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(30, '<img><a>', 'content', false, 'More...', true);?>
					<div class="details">
						<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(__('Leave comment'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments'));?> | <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" title="Read More">Read More</a>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
			<?php /* Changes every other post to a different class */	$oddentry = ( empty( $oddentry ) ) ? 'class="gray" ' : ''; ?>
			<!-- End of Loop for middle column -->

    Essentially if you look at the home page of https://www.reelhits.com, the center column is where I want the video to show up. I just want the video and the post title.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

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