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Actually it seems to have cleared itself up now. But good to know for future reference.

Quick word of advice for anyone who wants to use this trick, you’ll end u with posts on your homepage with class “post” which your theme might already be using somewhere else.

So I did this:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="clearfloat <?php echo get_post_type(); ?>style">

so my classes on the homepage end up being

poststyle
lessonstyle
etc….

Oh yeah, that makes sense. Thanks a lot.

Never mind. Seems to have been a one time glitch. Sorry about that. Everything looks beautiful.

Used parandroid’s fix. Worked great but got the same nav-bar issue as everyone else.

Tried Ryansigg’s solution and now my menu is just a vertical list. I.e. No css customizing of it at all.

You could do a workaround by creating the page twice with two templates and give users both links.

If it’s a new domain the issue could also be with your host. You might also check with them b

Cool. Thanks. It didn’t erase anything in case anyone else searches for the same question.

Found it. .col {margin-bottom:17px } was applying to each individual post, not the two post grid. Took that away and it works fine.

Anyone who wants to pull posts from a custom taxonomy listed by value and/or display them in a grid format, I highly recommend the two articles I linked to above. Works great.

css for that div:

.col {
width:47%;
float:left;
padding-left:2%;
margin-bottom:17px;
border-left: #A62800 double 3px;
}

Sorry thought this got posted in my reply above.

Sure. It’s https://www.englishadvantage.info/testblog/

The reason that there are only 2 posts in the first two categories is that I don’t have much content up yet. That’s not an error with the loop (I assume!) Just trying to get everything the way I like it first.

I could kiss you too. This is perfect! I’ve been hunting for something like this for days.

When I tried that out in twenty ten, I got this error message:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for get_the_taxonomy(), called in /home1/englisi9/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/twentyten/getthetax.php on line 8 and defined in /home1/englisi9/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 485

Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /home1/englisi9/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 503

Would love to see it work.

Turns out I was doing everything right, just the page wasn’t updating. Needed to clear my cache, shut down Chrome and start it up again to see my changes! But getting around that is another thread.

Re: Custom menu the only thing I can’t seem to figure out is the css property to keep the parent menu item highlighted when the submenu is open.

Re: putting the sentence on the blog page, look at index.php. Anything you put between
<div id="content" role="main">
and

<?php
/* Run the loop to output the posts.

Will show up before the posts but after the header. But formatted like your regular blog content.