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OK, I finally found a little time to devote to answering the how I did the categories on my http://vitw.org site. Sorry for the delay. I had to deal with the Iraqi elections and such and have been extremely busy developing new things.

First a word of caution. I did the following changes and additions to my site using wordpress 1.3 alpha and I haven’t tried to upgrade to 1.5 alpha yet so I’m not sure that what changes I made will transfer over to 1.5 without any problems. When I do make the upgrade I’ll let you know how it goes.

Here are links to the places that helped me get categories going the way I wanted them on my site.

1.) WordPress Modifications, Creating separate category and individual files
http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/07/07/wordpress-modifications/2/

1a.)Also, FYI, Burningbird’s Making the Move from Movable Type to WordPress at http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/04/14/making-the-move-from-movable-type-to-wordpress/1/ was invaluable to me since I was making that very move.

What i did for anyone to look at is I made an example page that displays 3 recent posts from 2 differect categories, and then shows the main category I wanted shown.

Visit http://vitw.org/libraryWordPress.php – This is the example page that I notated. On that page I’ve included links to the code.

Also see, http://vitw.org/libraryWordPress.phps – This is the example page code.

The original page that the Example above is based in is located at http://vitw.org/library/

Anyway, take a look and let me know if this helps, or if anyone needs to view another file that I haven’t linked and included in the example page above just let me know and I’ll post it.

Thanks everyone,
Scott

kordwarshuis,
No use of a second database.
This is what I have at the start of the page for the Military Corporate Complex page (http://vitw.org/mic/) which implements multiple categories (Corporate Rule, Military Corporate Complex, and Counter Recruitment) to show on that page

<?php
$blog = 1;
if (!isset($cat)) {
$cat = "65 64 63";
}
/* Don"t remove this line. */
require("./wp-blog-header.php");
?>

Hope that’s what you are looking for.

XepoX,
I use another script for the calendar; http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php

I needed a calendar specifically for events, speaking, art tours, etc. I was already familiar with webcalendar so I just folded it into the site.

Lorelle, I’ll be getting around to explaining the way I did categories and how the right changes dependent upon the category and page sometime this week.

Thanks Anonymous. Let me know what site your intending to blog on. If you feel like it send me some of your writing on Iraq. My contact info is at http://vitw.org/who_we_are/, Scott Blackburn.

Hi Iraq,
I created the header with photoshop. You can use other programs similar to photoshop, like inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) or if you use linux you can try the Gimp. The are both free.
My friend, Safaa, translated the “Voices in the Wilderness” into arabic, and then we scanned the writing and I used photoshop to smooth it out. I found a map of Iraq, then cut out the center. I have thousands of photos from Iraq from photojournalists and ordinary people that have gone to Iraq as delegates with Voices (starting in 1996 and through the current occupation) Then I set up a small php script to rotate the header so that each time you come to the site 1 of 10 images is shown randomly.
Hope that answers your question.
What’s your blog address? Where in Iraq do you live?

Thanks for the comments. It’s been a long time getting familar with WP and converting the movabletype over, not to mention the redesign, plus the other part of the job, getting articles, writers, interviews, video, etc. And also making it validate and the all css layout was a chore, but a great learning experience.
I do agree about the center column being too thin. It was difficult getting all the info on that page without the clutter and also keeping the people working with projects for us happy with their “spot”.
Plus it’s not done just yet. I’ll take the clunkyload time into consideration when I get a chance.
Thanks everyone. WP rocks.