Using the new menu system, as far as I know I can set a page which is actually itself a child page (in the pages section) to be a parent of a page which is actually itself a parent= TRUE What is normaly done on a site that doesn’t use wp_list_pages? I can’t speak for … Read more
Try adding this to your .htaccess file: RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ index.php [NC,R] SOURCE: http://css-tricks.com/377-how-to-redirect-indexhtml-to-indexphp/
If you want the bullet points to disappear, simply edit your themes style.css file. If you use a debugging tool you can find exactly where in style.css to edit. As you say, set list-style to none (though you might want to specify a class to ensure it doesn’t effect lists where you do want bullet … Read more
If i understand correctly, a quick solution could be using something like Widget Logic and create a custom menu for each category, then use whatever Conditional Tags applies.// such as is_category() or in_category( ‘5’ ) Or, if you don’t want to use a plug-in, you could try duplicating the widget and then adding the conditional … Read more
This was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. It seems having multiple while loops can confuse WordPress if it exhausts all the posts. In particular, if a while loop gets to the end of the posts, the next while loop starts from the beginning, causing duplicates to be shown. To get round this we … Read more
Without looking at the database data (posts, inherits, etc), it’s a bit of guesswork. Try the following: Make sure you have “post_type”=>”post” specified, so that you don’t get auto-saved inherits (if it defaults to ‘any’). If this is an isolated query (not meant to be main loop), use $q = new WP_Query() and run it … Read more
If you’re looking for standards, you want to make sure you look at TwentyTen and TwentyEleven – those are included with WordPress and written by the core developers. It doesn’t get anymore “standard” 🙂 But in terms of guidelines – this is the best place to look for official rules: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development Frameworks are there to … Read more
WP Theming The most important resource for wordpress developers is supplied by the wordpress community themselves: the codex. If you’re about to start writing your own theme, the articles on Theme Development and The Loop are a must-read. Also, even though you’re just developing for personal use, it might be a good idea to familiarize … Read more
Pages can have templates, but not posts. You have created a custom page template. There is no out-of-the-box way to have a post template, but there is a highly rated plugin called Custom Post Template that will do what I think you want to do.
I think the easiest way would be doing this with jQuery: http://jsfiddle.net/pFyPz/