I must say, it is a piece of cake working with this. If all else fails you
can resort to old fashioned methods. There does not seem to be a menu item
to change the page footer, so I searched around in the folder for this
Style ("twentyend"), found something called "footer.php" and bashed it.

FTP the new version and Bob's your uncle.

I'll probably wreck something by such methods.

I am working with a local copy of Wordpress, running under Xampp.

I find lots of utility programs to do first things such as making a
separate list of featured articles. The problem is that these utility
programs are written by amateurs with mistakes in them. For example the
instructions one of them -- called PopLists -- says you're supposed to
insert a text widget adding the following to create a list of featured news
items (defined by me), like so:


<?php
  if( function_exists("pl_postlist") )
    pl_postlist("MYPOSTLISTSEXAMPLE");
?>

That's grand, but it does not actually work. It left some text on the
screen:

");?>

Interesting.

So I went in, chopped out some code, and made it look like this, which has
to be illegal but it works:


<?php
  if( function_exists("pl_postlist") )
    pl_postlist(FEATUREDNEWS


It will probably stop working one of these days. Something, somewhere is
supplying the close-quote, close-paran . . . I have no idea what.

I do not like group-sourced software!

- Jed

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