converting2wp

Using firebug, I see that about line 339 of style.css there’s

#access ul li.current_page_item > a, #access ul li.current-menu-ancestor > a, #access ul li.current-menu-item > a, #access ul li.current-menu-parent > a {
color: #FFFFFF;
}

Change the #FFFFFF to #AAAAAA (preferably in a child theme) and the name of the current page will appear in light-grey (instead of white) against the white background of the nav bar.

Alternatively, change the background of the class menu-header to something other than white.

Doh. Thanks, GRAQ.

And if the question of slugs and “pretty” permalinks doesn’t work, all I can think of is that you recode the add_page to return the IDs of the new pages and store those somewhere that they can be accessed. [But you’ll still need to get the PHP onto the page.]

Yes, absolutely.

Your news posts would be in a separate category.

On the main page, you’d modify the template to show just the posts in the “recipes” category.

You can get to the news with the link to its archive page, typically

http://yourhostname/category/news

In the Appearance > Menus you can add a menu item for any particular category as long as the theme you’ve selected supports custom menus.

Understanding the template hierarchy may help in making different types of posts show up on different “pages”.

Can you give a reference to what you mean by “adding the pages in functions.php”?

It sounds as if the maths, etc., pages are not created using the backend “new page” and so whatever permalink structure you’re using there doesn’t apply?

I don’t see any admin interface for this.

The way I’d do it is

1. First, set up a child theme for your modified version of TwentyTen.

2. Copy the twentyten_posted_on() function from the twentyten/functions.php to a new functions.php in your child theme.

3. In that function, the date/time posted information is generated here

sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s</span></a>',
			get_permalink(),
			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
			get_the_date()
),

where the time is output as a title attribute on the link (i.e. if you hover over the date, you’ll see the time).

If you want the time displayed directly, change that first line to, say,

sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">%3$s at %2$s</span></a>',

Hope that helps and you see how to modify things to get exactly what you want. [See also the examples in the PHP docs.]

I think you mean you intend to write a series of posts about, say, books and put each of them in the category “books”. Then you’d access the list of those posts with the address

http://your-wordpress-address/category/books

What that page looks like depends on your theme, but no plugin is involved.

If your theme supports the WP 3.0 menu system, you can also make that page of posts an item in your menu. Open the Dashboard and look down the left column for “Appearance” and under that look for “Menus”. Clicking that will bring up a screen where you can select a particular category and add it to the main menu for your site. If your theme isn’t using the menuing system, it may have other information about how to change the menu — Since you purchased the theme, see if their support may help you get started.