I have searched but cannot find a solution, basically what I am looking for is to have a number of sections that have a specific style on the homepage, that can be edited by the site admin without the need to edit HTML code each time the section needs to be changed.

This is an example of what I mean, the featured product and our innovation sections. I would like similar sections on my homepage.

I have looked at adding additional loops, like this, but cannot get it to work. What I looking to do is use WP as a CMS and need some help in setting it up to do so.

I activated a new theme and I have categories and archives showing up in the sidebar. They are non functional. I do have a archive widget active.

I think that these stray items are generic WP, but I can not find where they are accessed in the dashboard.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Nathan

Thanks for getting back to me.. really appreciate the help. It's an early free version of Modularity by Graph Paper Press.

Here's the header.php:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/pYvQLwrK

I'm using Wordpress with the SEO frienly URL's. This works fine.

Now I want to integrate a "non-wordpress" page. I've made a page link mydomain.com/custom.php. Every person who is trying to get to http://www.mydomain.com/custom/ or (www.mydomain.com/custom/custom2/etc) should go to http://www.mydomain.com/custom.php.

That's the only change, offcourse the folder /custom/ is not used anywhere in the wordpress URL structure.

The current .htaccess is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

What i tried is:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/custom/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /custom.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2 [L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Unfortunately my wordpress theme is still saying: OOPS, THE PAGE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CANNOT BE LOCATED.

Anyone knows what the problem is here?

Nine months on I had to re-install my theme. Obviously slashes reverted. I was able to find your advice from nine months ago and re-implement it. Thanks again!!

Regards
Duncan Grove

Hi Webjunk,

Thanks for your effort in helping me out.

The solution you gave me has one problem that is it will only trigger when someone visits my site.

I wanted a command to input in a cron job to go around this.

Once again, thanks for your time

Take care

Thanks for the help, t-p and webjunk,

tp:

I tried removing/naming .htaccess. No help. I still get a 404 not found error, but this time from Bluehost. When the original .htaccess was there, the 404 error was a page in the site, with the theme intact. When I remove the .htaccess, I just get a vanilla 404 error.

I can't switch themes, since I can't login to the admin area. I don't even get a login screen. I just get 404 not found (even though I can get to the site itself). http://www.erinhydequilts.com/

I do have ftp access, as I mentioned in the original post (that's how I changed .htaccess), but how do I change the theme there? Is that what you were suggesting?

webjunk:

I checked the siteurl in phpMyAdmin and it hasn't changed. It correctly targets the subdirectory where I installed Wordpress, which is what it was when it was working, as well.

When you say to check the Admin accounts, can you be more specific? The account with the name Admin is gone (I followed Sitepoints security recommendations and removed it after creating new adminstrative accounts with different names.) The three admin accounts are all showing up in the database, but I don't know what else to look for.

Thanks again. I'm in real trouble here, so I'm really grateful for anyone's help.
Cyd

Hi, I have a project where category and single page need to look the same. Here's my category page: it has a latest post featured above everything else http://www.2ndfront.net/sandbox/category/restaurant Other 6 posts in this category are listed under it, with Next/Previous navigation. Now, when I click on a project, the category part of the page is gone. Is there a way to include regular category loop in single.php together with Next/Previous navigation? Not a query with certain number of posts, but entire thing, like the one I have? My understanding of php is too basic for this. I'd appreciate any help.

It's an odd problem, I don't even know how to run a Google search on it

The following is popping up when accessing my website:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in Z:\home\localhost\www\localblog\wp-settings.php on line 520

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in Z:\home\localhost\www\localblog\wp-settings.php on line 535

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in Z:\home\localhost\www\localblog\wp-settings.php on line 542

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in Z:\home\localhost\www\localblog\wp-settings.php on line 578

Deprecated: Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated in Z:\home\localhost\www\localblog\wp-settings.php on line 18

Can anyone help to resolve this poroblem.
Note: I cant even access through admin. The WordPress Version in use is 2.9.2.

Help would be appreciated.

This calendar plugin worked mostly as advertised (I was not able to get the variant having no shortcode to work, but otherwise fine). But all events have start/stop times and the default UI isn't great, but changeable with CSS, of course. I tried another, MyCalendar and it has far more options and seems more configurable -- in some casess, this plugin might be all you need, but for my case, the other was far more flexible.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cgm-event-calendar/