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how does wordpress' <!--nextpage--> tag actually work?

What happens? I'm guessing that somehow the post or page is parsed before displaying, and then just split into two methods? I can't seem to find any documentation on how the underlying <?php wp_link_pages( $args ); ?> method actually works. Is all of this processing done before the user loads the concerned page? Or is it scanned an...

Wordpress the_time formatting

Pretty simple question here, hoping for a simple answer. I want to display my wordpress time output as DD.MM.YY So today it would be 10.11.09 I couldn't find anything in the wordpress codex, I supposed its a little php? ...

I need a recommendation for a Wordpress Newsletter/Mailing list plugin

Looking for a recommendation on a simple newsletter plugin for Wordpress. It needs to have a signup box with email, name, etc.. and then a back-end for viewing these email addresses and sending mails. Everyone I've looked at is trying to send pages or posts as email. Any help is appreciated. ...

list-style not displaying for list elements despite !important?

Ok, I have a wordpress theme installed here (www.sullivansuccesscoaching.com/home ...we need the /home because there is still an index.html hiding the wordpress install. This is intentional). On the /home page I have a jquery cycle.lite running for the .animCont class which basically fades the slides using opacity changes. The ol, ul e...

ie7 and ie8 ignore "margin:0px auto;"

http://blog.helpcurenow.org I'm working on the development of this blog and it seems ie7 and ie8 both are displaying the content so that the container seems to be ignoring the "margin:0px auto;" rule. It could be something else I'm just not getting, but either way the effect is that the content (as well as the navigational links) are f...

How do I simply retrieve the last most recent publish post in wordpress with mysql?

hi there, I'm looking to retrieve the most recently published post in a wordpress system. I have some basic mysql understanding and I can find where the revisions are stored in the wp_posts table but what I can't seem to find is how to retrieve the permalink for the most recent post. any ideas on how to retrieve the most recent post w...

WordPress home page duplicate content issue. Need a resolution to avoid Google smack

My WordPress blog has a single post designated as sticky that will always load when the site.com address is hit. However, since this is a post it resolves to both "insert-post-name-here" and index.php in my sitemap. For example, the link to "Home" and the link to the "insert-post-name-here" page appear to be two different pages to goog...

Displaying static information in a Wordpress blog

I would like to create a front page for a Wordpress blog that contains static information and blog posts: [Static Information 1] [Static Information 2] [Static Information 3] [Excerpt from latest Blog post from Category 1] [Excerpt from latest Blog post from Category 2] The static sections will contain text, links and images and shoul...

Link to Wordpress 'latest posts' page when using static front page

I have a static page set as front page in Wordpress, instead of default 'latests posts' page. However, I would still like to be able to navigate to 'latests posts' page, but I'm not sure how to access it. I'm doing this since I want my top navigation to be HOME (static page, front page), BLOG (latest posts), ABOUT (static page), and so...

when blogging on wordpress. my blog destroys the template i created. how to avoid that?

here is the site im talking about. http://marillest.com/?d=1 (make sure to include the ?d=1) i had set up a simple design with width specifications through css but when i start blogging and place large images within the area the entire design gets messed up. things go all over the place. how can i stop this? this website is for a client...

Cannot Edit WordPress Themes - Various Errors

Our WordPress 2.8.6 installation is returning multiple different errors when trying to edit theme files via wp-admin. The errors are as follows: "Invalid index." "The data area passed to a system call is too small" "The parameter is incorrect." We've tried deactivating all plugins to no avail. We also tried creating a blank "plugins"...

PHP drop down menu help needed

Hi, Need help with my simple PHP menu. I'd like to have something like that: when child elements < 6 display one column if > 6 display two columns. Any advices how to make it? Regards ...

Font of page title appears different on browsers in Windows and on Linux

Hello, On my wordpress blog, the page title appears differently in windows and on linux. On Linux in Firefox its smooth and appears as it should,but on Windows in both Firefox and IE it has rough edges. On Windows, it appears http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4592/picwindows.png . Any way to fix this ? The CSS is as follows : #pageti...

date and time settings dont show up properly in wordpress 2.8.6

I have some problems while making my own theme for wordpress. Currently I'm making a comment system that was updated in wordpress 2.7 (you now that one with treated comments). I'm following the codex and everything is fine except the date-time output of each comment - now it is looking like this: %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p . Instead of ...

How do I use underscore in a wordpress permalink

Wordpress converts my post title to a permalink which is great, the only thing is that I want underscores instead of hyphens, is there a quick solution? ...

How do I set up an additional RSS feed on WordPress?

I need to add an additional RSS2 feed to my WordPress site but I'm getting the following error when trying to access it by http://mysite.com/?feed=myfeed: "ERROR: gamesrss is not a valid feed template" I've created the template file and lumped it into the includes directory. What else do I need to do? ...

WordPress 'comment is awaiting moderation.' message not appearing when a comment is submitted?

Everything is pretty standard from WP samples, with minor modifications. But when a comment is submitted, it does not show the "your comment is awaiting moderation" message. The comments.php: <div id="comment-block"> <h4><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to &#8220;<?php the_title(); ?>&#822...

Why can't I properly style a blockquote in Wordpress?

On the design I just created for my website, I have a blockquote styled with two quote images using the span technique in css: blockquote { background-image: url(images/openquote.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: left 5px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; font-style: italic; } blockquote span { background...

Wordpress archive page

I want more functionality out of the wp_get_archives tag. I want my results to look like this: Year Month Post Post Post Year Month Post Post Post To achieve this, am I going to have to use the loop? Is there another way to do this besides the loop? ...

How can I change the height of the textarea in Wordpress administration?

I'm referring to the blog administration section. The textarea height is set to 209px inline. How can i change this? I used a program to do a full search within all pages and it couldnt find it. Does anyone know? ...