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Thanks! I was looking all over for something like this.

Yep that done it i got the php tag that does the sidebar and put it in my archive.php file. <?php _e('Browse Books','monochrome'); ?> <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); ?> ^M thats what makes it do that. Thanks all.

I was wondering if its possible to save php or html tags into the post template to make it that automatically when somebody makes a post that a couple of links appear at the bottom of the page and a few other predefined styling to make every post appear similar without having to start from scratch with each post.

Ahh yea true!! I'm going to have a peek at the sidebar.php file and see if i can find the code. Please do correct me if im looking in the wrong place

I've tried this but all it shows is my archive page?? i want it to list catergories. No posts or pages I installed the http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sit ? wordpress/ but it shows the catergories with posts underneath i want to show only catergories. how do i do this??

could i use the template and put it in the plugins PHP file??

yeah but my archive is made with the plugin listed above so i dont know if other plugins would do that. Ill try the tag though. thanks

ok i've got it... phew is there anyway to make it that you click the category first and then the posts show up? I'm trying to make it 100% user friendly. i really need to up my php skills more :/

Want to run the plugin from a template file? To use the sitemap generator function directly from a template file, just insert the following line where you would like the sitemap to be generated: <?php echo ddsg_create_sitemap(); ?> Where do i put this to get it working?? Not in the website in wordpress admin or??

i wanted the categories to appear on a page in the middle so you can click on them and half all recent blogs on the side bar listed in their catergories. sort of like this: w ww.amazon.com/Subjects-Books/b/ref=sv_b_1?ie=UTF8&node=1000

yeah that looks like what im after... is the portfolio made up of posts?

Yeah i what i want is to create a sidebar menu showing categories and also have the posts under it show up in my browse archive under different categories and also keep the posts in sync e.g when i open a post in the browse archive it should have all the comments that it did under a different category in the sidebar. Also i want the posts in the sidebar to disappear after a certain amount have been published. the ones that are gone will still however be in the browse archive. Would the plugin do this? i'm sorry to make this so confusing :|

well i try to follow the howto but i cant create a archive page. I sort of want a browsing index so users can look through all blogs in different categories , listed alphabetically...

<?php } elseif (is_year()) { ?>^M <?php printf(__('Archive for %s', 'monochrome'), get_the_time(__('Y', 'monochrome'))); ?> ^M^M <?php } elseif (is_author()) { ?>^M <?php _e('Author Archive', 'monochrome'); ?> ^M^M <?php } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>^M <?php _e('Blog Archives', 'monochrome'); ?> ^M<?php } ?>^M ^M^M <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>^M ^M ^M <?php the_title(); ?>^M ^M <?php the_time(__('F jS, Y', 'monochrome')) ?>^M <?php _e('Posted in ','monochrome'); ?><?php the_category(' . '); ?>^M <?php if ($options['author']) : ?> <?php _e('By ','monochrome'); ?><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?><?php endif; ?>^M <?php edit_post_link(__('[ EDIT ]', 'monochrome'), ' ', '' ); ?>^M ^M <?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?><?php _e('[ READ MORE ]', 'monochrome'); ?> ^M ^M^M <?php endwhile; else: ?>^M ^M <?php _e("Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.","monochrome"); ?> ^M ^M<?php endif; ?>^M ^M <?php include('navigation.php'); ?>^M ^M ^M ^M ^M <?php get_sidebar(); ?>^M ^M ^M ^M ^M<?php get_footer(); ?>

I was just reading through this howto http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index For wp 1.5+ it says to upload the archives.php to the themes directory. I dont really get this because i already have a default archives.php in my themes folder. Would that work? Do i have to do anything to it?

finnally i got it!! i just made a picture in photoshop with the design thing at the bottom and with the rest of the space i done my design Thanks for your help!

Ahh yes! i have found the div "header" in the stylesheet and i am able to change its colour. Nearly there!! If you follow the previous link and click preview on the right you will get a sort-of interactive preview where you can go to the top bit (where the top menu is) right click ->view background image. and you will see a little design of the website. when i changed the colour this little bit was cut off here is a screenshot of it notice the cut off bit is the background image. How can i add my background and keep the little design thing?

No im designing the website offline and i wont be able to get it on the internet very easily... I'm using the monochrome theme and i haven't done much to it so far. I just realized, i think i changed a completely different image than what i want but i cant see any change. *click on preview this will give you the chance to right-click -> view background image. If you do that you can see that the image is a tiny bit of the top of the website under the header. which wasn't the image i changed. I't looks like the header doesn't have a image to it rather it being the whole background colour of the website. could i add a variable to the style sheet defining how the background should look without changing the whole background of the website?

Hi all. I've got a bit of trouble with wordpress im trying to change the overall look of the theme... what i tried to do was change the header_top.gif to a new one i designed. I went into the style.css and changed #headline p { background:url(img/headline_top.gif) no-repeat left top; padding:26px 15px 22px; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; margin:0; line-height:100%; text-align:center; }^M to #headline p { background:url(img/new-headline_top.gif) no-repeat left top; padding:26px 15px 22px; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; margin:0; line-height:100%; text-align:center; }^M i saved and reloaded the page however nothing has changed. then i renamed the default headline_top.gif to see if there would be a error but when i reloaded it was still unchanged. Whats going on? Any help would be great