Copying post thumbnail to custom field

I wouldn’t bother doing that. I’d just find the places in your theme files that call the custom field (probably something like “echo get_post_meta(‘bigimage’)” or something) and replace those with a the_post_thumbnail() tag. This saves you the trouble of messing with the data, and it makes administration much, much simpler going forward–which is kind of … Read more

Categories will only display links to posts

Look in your theme’s folder for a file called “category.php”. Open it then look for something like this: <span><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/7088/<?php the_permalink();?>”><?php the_title();?></a></span> Place this right below it: <p><?php the_excerpt();?></p> That will display an excerpt of each post below the title.

WordPress.com post editor replacement

WordPress.com supports post editing via the XML-RPC protocol. There are many editors that support this so you can write your posts on your own computer and post them to WordPress.com (or your own hosted WordPress installation). The better clients are smart enough to sync content, so if you use different editors on different computers they … Read more

Posts on a Page using functions.php

You need to query them: (for more info see inline comments) /** * Template Name: Journal */ // define( ‘TEXTDOMAIN’, ‘your_textdomain_string’ ); // To be sure, we reset the query, so nothing get’s lost wp_reset_query(); global $wp_query; $query_cat = new WP_Query( array( ‘orderby’ => ‘date comment_count’ // date = default, 2nd param = comment_count ,’order’ … Read more