No one got any ideas? I’ve posted this on the UTW forum and there doesn’t seem to be any love there either…

scratch that khaled really needs to learn how to read the documentation and wordpress itself. Feel sooo dumb :), it’s all in the codex.

Yes. That’s what seems to be the cause of the problem.

Thanks for the feedback Joshua, I’ve kind of solved the issue, although not in the standard way. I’ve just run an if statement in looking for a particular category, if it sees it then it wraps it in a div, if it doesn’t exist then it’s the standard loop.

Nothing really fancy…haven’t tested it but I shouldn’t think it’s a problem….if it becomes one, I’ll be back :).

I was actually hoping for a much simpler implementation, like -2 or something :). Oh well Thanks Ian.

okay I’m nearly there, just need an extra nudge in the right direction. Basically what’s happening is that in the second loop the title is showing up right, but the content is actually the first entry in all the rest of the categories etc. So say I had 5 posts in total one in the featured category. The title of the featured category shows up in the place it’s meant to but also the very first post as well.

here’s the code I’m using in the second loop, I’m sure I’m missing something fundamental here…


<div id="primaryContent">

<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=gallery&showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$gallery_post = $post; // save the feature post for later...
endwhile;
?>

<?php
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
if( $post->ID == $gallery_post->ID ) continue;
update_post_caches($posts);
?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
</div> <!-- entry -->

<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> <strong>|</strong> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','','<strong>|</strong>'); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
</div><!-- post -->

<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

</div><!-- primaryContent -->
<hr />

<div id="gallery">

<?php
if( $gallery_post ):
$post = $gallery_post;
?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small>

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(''); ?>
</div> <!-- entry -->

</div><!-- post -->

<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- gallery -->

Actually found this reply which basically tells me to go back to the drawing board :), simply put it can’t be done properly.

Go to this forum page

Opacities (-moz-opacity in earlier moz versions, -khtml-opacity in saf1.1, opacity in current saf and moz versions, filter:alpha(opacity:#) in iew) are set on a whole element, not just the background. Opacities are nesting but not inheriting, meaning that an element with 50% opacity nested within another element with 50% opacity will end up being 25% opacity. According to the relevant CSS specs, opacities are normalised to be within the 0%-100% range, thus you can never get any part of an element to have a higher opacity than the base opacity of it’s ancestors. If you want to use partial opacities for only backgrounds, there are today three choices: use CSS3 RGBA colours for the background (saf1.2 only), use alpha channel PNG for background (moz, op, saf, iem but not iew), or use a gif where you mix transparent and non-transparent pixels so that it looks like a partial transparency. There is a trick that might work for getting alpha channel PNG to work in ie5.5w and ie6.0w, that relies on using the AlphaImageLoader filter to generate the proper background opacity, though.

Yeah but I’ve seen examples of working for safari, mozilla and ie. You just need to declare it 3 times. Also just tried having opacity 1 in the centre div, doesn’t seem to work…