blicht454

That did the trick! Thanks very much! I just added an arg to exclude a category, and now it’s working perfectly.

Here’s what worked if anyone else wants to use it:

<?php global $post;
$nextTagThumb='-1';
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
?>

<?php
if ($tags) {
$what_tag = wp_get_post_tags( $post->ID, array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) );
$args = array( 'tag__in' => $what_tag,
             'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
             'posts_per_page' => 6,
             'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
             'category__not_in' => 9
             );
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

<!-- CONTENT HERE -->

<?php endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();
$nextTagThumb = ($nextTagThumb+1);
}
?>

Yeah, thanks. I already did, but I’m not finding the best way to make this work.
The permalinks structure is working great on all pages except for single blog posts. So I only want to change the structure for the posts, not anywhere else.
Any ideas?

Yeah, that much I figured. Can you take a look at my code for the query and see if you notice anything strange? I’m not really customizing the loop all that much.

<?php query_posts('posts_per_page=3'); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
               ~the post is here~
<?php endwhile; ?>
		<div id="blog-nav">
			<div id="older-posts"><?php next_posts_link('<span class="little-arrow-two-right"></span>older') ?></div>
			<div id="newer-posts"><?php previous_posts_link('<span class="little-arrow-two-left"></span>newer') ?></div>
               </div>
<?php else : ?>
	<h2>Not Found</h2>
<?php endif; ?>

Yeah, that took care of it. Thanks!

The site is still not online, so unfortunately I can’t post a link yet. I’m building the theme from scratch.

Can you explain how a counter variable would work? I’ve never done that before.

What I’m trying to do is use query posts to find the first three (most recent) posts on the first pass, and then all other posts on the second pass…

Let me know if that makes sense.

Amazing! You’re a legend, thanks. That works perfectly.

The blog page is not set as the front page, it’s set as the “posts” page. Any ideas?

I’m not using the wp_nav_menu, although I suppose I could, if there’s no other way to make this work. Here’s a link to the site, if it helps: blichttesting.com/one

You can see that right now the ‘blog’ is always current, since I haven’t figured it out yet.

Another question if you have the time: is there a way to make the id=current valid for more than one page?

<?php if (is_page('Home')) {
echo " id=\"current\"";
}?>>

For example, in the code above, could I make more than just ‘Home’ current?