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By: Hammed Kohistani

Hammed Kohistani — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:30:42 +0000

This article was alot of great insite, definitely learned some new stuff! I am writing a full book in it as well, blogintocms.com

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By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:49:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing the process you went through and the resources that you’ve found. I can see all of these being extremely useful to me with future projects, especially the custom loops.

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:07:38 +0000

Thanks for the awesome comment.

Great to know that I can page custom queries like that. Might come in handy.

I did find that Multi-level Nav Plugin you mentioned but at the time it think it just looked way to complex to bother with and the other solution worked out perfect so never bothered with anything else.

By: Michael Wender

Michael Wender — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:32:41 +0000

Nice roundup of the things you're learning about WordPress. For about the past 1.5 years, I've used it almost exclusively for all of my client's sites. Basically, I think of it as a base framework that I can build any type of site off of. Then, should my client want a "blog" or "news" section, "adding" it in is easy. ;) Regarding your custom loops: If you happen to use the next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() functions on those pages, you may find that those links don't work. Clicking on them will simply redisplay the first set of posts in the loop. If that's the case, rewrite your loops like this:


$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("category_name=news&orderby=date&order=DEC&showposts=3&paged=$paged");

Adding the $paged variable to your query_posts() call will restore that variable since the function wipes it out when you call it. Additionally, in your quest for a dropdown menu, did you consider the Multi-level Navigation plugin? Nice looking site by the way. PS - In case you're wondering how I stumbled across your site, I saw your tweet about this post at http://search.twitter.com