theejonnyb

When I put the XML feed in assuring that in Google the Privacy is set to public viewable, the calendar still does not show up or display. The link to WPGCalendar shows up when using the [WP-GCALENDAR]. But no calendar appears. I think it again has to relate to the fatal error on line 88 after the initial installation I mentioned above.

alchymyth,

Thanks so much for the understanding and direction. Once I got rolling it all started coming together. Here is what I ended up with:

September 23rd, 2010 – events
this is an event post…
// view full story

<h2>news & events</h2>

              <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=4,5&showposts=4"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
              <div class="view_full_article" <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
          <div class="view_full_article_meta"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> - <?php the_category(', ') ?></div>
          <div class="view_full_article_headline"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>...</a></div>
          <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" class="white">// view full story</a>
                </div>
        <?php endwhile; ?> 

           <div class="view_past_articles">
          <a href="http://new.saa.edu/?cat=5">view past news</a><br />
          <a href="http://new.saa.edu/?cat=4">view all events</a>
           </div>

This works great. I’m sure there is a neater more appropriate approach to executing the PHP. But overall the results are there.

Thanks much.

It looks like this currently.

<div class="view_full_article">
   <div class="view_full_article_meta">7.29.10- news</div>
   <div class="view_full_article_headline">2010 saa Salutatorian Susan Jauss accepted an internship  at Real Art...</div>
<a href="#">// view full story</a>
</div>

It’s divitus I know. I will be converting it to li soon. 😉

<ul <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=4&showposts=4"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
# " rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?>

<li class="entry">
<?php
$img = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Featured Thumbnail', true);
?><img src="<?php echo $img; ?>"/><?php
the_content('Read More');
?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

That’s really what I feel like I should be doing. I really appreciate the good advising direction. I hope that this thread can help anyone who might be trying to decide when it’s appropriate to do one over the other. I’m likely going to just get working and crank out a new template. I’m most comfortable just doing that anyways since I’ve never had a need since WordPress started initially to make any child theme. I do see and appreciate it’s flexibility for updates to a current theme when the objective is to keep the structure the same, but have multiple skinning options.

Thanks Rev Voodoo. Big confidence booster in direction.