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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: “Show only today’s posts” plugin?Is there a way to modify the get_archives command in ARCHIVES.PHP to return just the posts for today?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: “Show only today’s posts” plugin?What I want for my news website is a cover page that shows titles and excerpts for today’s posts at HOME.PHP with a normal ribbon of all the posts underneath it at INDEX.PHP.
I have spent days reading through the entire CODEX and browsing the support forums, and have not found the answer I need.
Other weblogs (Typepad and some others) have a list of links to the recent posts in the sidebar. How do they do that?
What I am looking for is a way to create a “splash” page with an overview of all the material, similar to RealClearPolitics.com.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Altering links.php?Re: <?php wp_get_linksbyname(‘category’); ?>
I just applied this, and I didn’t have to alter index.php
I used the page links.php and made several copies, one for each category.
So I can open a page of links in each category. This is useful because I have a news magazine, and wanted a list of sources — American papers, international papers, magazines, etc. Now instead of using text pages for that, I can use the links manager.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Referencing both Home.php and index.phpWell, yes, because my webhost allows FIVE WordPress installations on each domain, so I have
domain.com
Wordpressone.domain.com
Wordpresstwo.domain.com
Wordpressthree.domain.com
Wordpressfour.domain.com
Wordpressfive.domain.comAnd only one http://www.domain.com/index.html
Mind you, I am not complaining. I think WordPress is the most fantastic thing since the wheel and sliced bread. I am using it as a retirement hobby to see what I can create. And it has a marvelous functionality.
To someone like me who started using computers in the days of punch card readers for input, what you young folks are creating is a whole new world. I think it is wonderful.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Referencing both Home.php and index.phpI thought that the whole point of having both home and index pages was to use home as an entry or splash page when people came to the domain URL, and then start the blogging on the index page. So I tried to do that, and I have not been able to get the index page to come up at all.
Now I know that I can achieve the effect that I want by making a separate index.html page for my splash page, and then linking to the blog index page from that.
splash page http://www.domain.com/index.html
blog start http://wordpressinstall.domain.com/index.phpBut then what was the point of putting both home and index pages in WordPress? It is all so confusing.