Wordpress help pleeeeaaassee :(

[Nic Aragon]

Hey i need some wordpress help pretty bad right now. Web dude is asleep across the country, and its not really his responsibility because i said i knew i could figure it out, and yeah, i cant LOL.

any help would be apprecited, im sure the problem is staring me right in the face.

thanks

[Kirk Gillock]

I know a little bit about Wordpress. What's the problem?

[kyotonils]

Give us a hint of what your problem is. I've got a freshly finished Wordpress website open in another window right now, and I'm making a "How to use your new site" screencast about it.

[Nic Aragon]

i have a few questions actually. Weve got some sites, and im using premium themes i purchased, basically need to find a way to lock down posts in the themes to where they are, so they propogate properly, and on my newest site, i cant figure out where to make it only show the excerpt instead of the whole post.

PM or AIM me at cynic821

i figured out one of the problems, which was displaying a thumbnail properly, on my own which gave me hope, which then fizzled out after 2 hours of clicking and what not. haha.

[kyotonils]

Nic sez: ...basically need to find a way to lock down posts in the themes to where they are, so they propogate properly, and on my newest site, i cant figure out where to make it only show the excerpt instead of the whole post.

"lock down posts to where they are" is a bit fuzzy to me. Do you mean which section of the site, like "main story" "featured stories" and other categories that are being displayed in different locations? If so, you are probably going to have put the correct category name(s) or category number(s) for each display area in the main index template.

look for something like this in the main index template:


<?php query_posts("showposts=1&category_name=Headline"); ?>

This will show one post in the headline category in this section of the site. If your template uses category numbers instead of names, find the numbers by going to the dashboard, click "posts" then "categories" and roll over each category and you'll see it's the category down at the bottom in the status bar.

Only showing the excerpt should be easy if both of these conditions exist: you have an excerpt box on your posting form (you are using WP 2.7, aren't you?) AND the index template has code like this in each section you want excerpts:


<?php the_excerpt(); ?>