I downloaded My category order and it worked very well. One down two to go.
Thanks, i now understand the limitations of the count option. It is related to sub categories.

I stll must find a way top limit the number of top level categories that are shown to prevent an excessive number of levels from appearing. I nowwhave two which is ok but there may be more.

Can you now see why i wanted the scrolling marquee.


Now for the bigee. Being able to modify the code when necessary. My experience has been with C, C++ and visual Basic (object oriented programming) It's hard for me to recall an incident where I was unable to modify code to accomplish my objectives. PHP is new to me but I've been able to navigate and make small changes. My problem is that i do not understand the architecture of wordpress/Atahualpa which is vital to knowing where the code canbe found to make the changes. The forums are good but there are cases, as you can see, where I am left to find my own solution. Without a good tutorial on wordpress/theme architecture, this task is extremely time consuming or almost impossible.

I'm considering opening a new thread on wordpress/Atahualpa troubleshooting and modification.

There are so many options made available without coding in Atahualpa, you may not need to do much coding. That said, you can simply open up any of the php files in the theme and see what's what. functons.php is sort of the nerve center of the theme, I guess.

The wordpress.org codex is full of information. I'm sure there are entire books on it too, although it's changing so fast, I'd think it best to stick with updated website tutorials.

You really shouldn't modify the Wordpress code itself unless you want real pain.

Imilesw

I did download category order. I notice that My Category Order refers to sidebar and not the bar2 menu that i am using? Should i try it anyhow?

In regards to keeping bar level at 1, I am using sub-categories, it would take a big change to eliminate sub-categories and the number of categories would grow even larger.

Are you telling me that the count option does not work.

I would try My Category Order. As for the counts are you saying you have more than 6 levels of sub categories like the following? If you only have a bunch of categories with one level of subcategories under them then the count set at 6 would have no effect.

Category
SubCategory
SubSubCategory
SubSubSubCategory
SubSubSubSubCategory
SubSubSubSubSubCategory

This may just confuse the issue, but I love this marquee effect:

http://www.ustream.tv/user/leolaporte

It is the same across the site, but I am a fan of Leo. the javascript is below, but since I know nothing of javascript, I cannot modify it to get it to work at all. It is so elegant, someone might have the talent and incentive to tweak it. If that person could share with the group, they would be my hero.

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