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  • Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    Yes, it’s nice that there are always people here on the forum who can point us toward a solution with any problem. 🙂

    However, I do hope the creators of WP will seriously consider bringing back a real archives feature in the next version of WP. We shouldn’t have to use a plugin to get a feature that every other blog platform already has. WP is just too good to miss something as basic as this.

    Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    Thanks for pointing out the custom query string plugin. That’s exactly what I was looking for. I think it will do the job, and I’ll play with it a bit and think about the issue of really long archives. But at least now I have somewhere to start.

    Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    Okay, I’ve been browsing through the Codex, and have come up with a solution. Here it is for anyone who wants archive and category pages to be excerpts, but home and permalink pages to be the full post:

    <div class=”storycontent”>
    <?php if( is_home() ) { the_content();
    } elseif (is_archive()) {
    the_excerpt();
    }
    else {
    the_content();
    }; ?>
    </div>

    Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    Whoops, still have one problem. I modified index.php with the following:

    <div class=”storycontent”>
    <?php if( is_home() ) {
    the_content();
    }
    else {
    the_excerpt();
    }; ?>
    </div>

    That makes all my pages except the home page have condensed content. That’s great, except I don’t want my permalink page to have condensed content – I want it to have the full post. I’m sure I can do that by modifying the above, but not being a php expert, I’m not sure what language to add to the above and where to do it. Anyone know? Thanks!

    Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    Thanks, that thread gave me an idea that will do the same thing without the plugin!

    Thread Starter LindaB

    (@lindab)

    This is the default theme for 1.5. The archive.php has the following:

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    Shouldn’t that bring up the sidebar within the sidebar.php file? If so, why is half of it missing?

    There is no category.php within the theme folder. And I can’t figure out which file is for the permalink file.

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