<div class="label"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($ar_headline);?>"><?php single_cat_title(); ?> &raquo;</a></div>

I can't open your site to see if you use the same version, on colorlabs demo it starts with div .. h2 class="label" ..

anyway, your site can't read 'get_category_link($ar_headline)' and the respective 'single_cat_title'

you might delete this line completely, the title of this post should be beside the image anyway - I would do this.

You are free to write anything there too, like:

<div class="label">&raquo; latest post</div>

the & r a q uo ; is actually the >> sign, this sample has no 'a href' link around, it will display just the text.

The dotted line: I should see your site to find out where it is...
In colorlabs demo it's an image set in style.css
#paged-list .clearfloat {
background:url(images/dots_content.gif) repeat-x bottom;
padding-bottom:1px;
}
you might have removed this dots_content.gif from images folder or changed div id="paged-list" to another name?
If I see your site I could tell, but I get redirected to your login screen...

Thank you!
It was not so complicated, I just removed the whole list.
Now there are just some cosmetic issues with my web-page, then I'm ready to go.
Maybe you can help me there also?!

Now that the headline category is changed to 'all category's the text on top, where the category was, is empty, there is just this sign: >>
It would look better if the headline of the post was in that place. Is it possible? Or could I write 'latest post' after the >> sign?

Something strange happened when I moved the list. The dotted line, that separated the 3 and 4 latest-posts-excerpt-list disappeared?! Is there any way to fix it?

The rest of it I think I will find in you answers to other people in here :)

Thank you so much Joern, you are a life savior!

Best regards Annie

I just tried to 'read' index.php again and realized, that the first post here (your second oldest post) is formatted different, it shows: the_content ...

the following posts show this post again, because there is an offset=1 again.

ALLWAYS KEEP A COPY OF A WORKING INDEX.PHP !!

ONE WAY:
you might replace the line with ... the_content with

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

to show the excerpt here only
now you should also change all lines with $myOffset = 1; to $myOffset = 2; to let the list below start with the third post

ANOTHER WAY:
just remove this top post in your lower list completely and leave the list as it is.
This post with the full content got a kind of border around, it is in div id="front-list"
all other posts are in div id="paged-list"

to remove this one post in front-list (your second post in an extra framed part) you might remove the full query for it in index.php

In my unchanged index.php it is this part you could just delete completely:

<?php if(!is_paged()) { ?>	

	<div id="front-list">	

	<?php $width = get_settings ( "cp_thumbWidth_LatestPost" );
		$height = get_settings ( "cp_thumbHeight_LatestPost" );
		if ( $width == 0 ) { $width = 150; }
		if ( $height == 0 ) { $height = 150; }
	?>

	<?php query_posts(array(
			'category__not_in' => array($ar_headline,$ar_featured),
			'showposts' => 1,
			)); ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>		

	<div class="clearfloat">
	<h3 class="cat_title"><?php the_category(', '); ?> &raquo;</h3>
	<span class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></span>
	<div class="meta"><?php the_time('D, j/m/y') ?> – <?php the_time('G:i') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments');?></div>		

    <?php $status = get_settings ( "cp_postThumb" );
		$status2 = get_settings ( "cp_thumbAuto" );

		if (( $status2 != "first" ) || ( $status != "no" )) { ?>

	<?php $values = get_post_custom_values("Image");
	if (isset($values[0])) { ?>
	<p><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=<?php echo $width; ?>&h=<?php echo $height; ?>&zc=1&q=100"
alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="<?php echo $width; ?>px" height="<?php echo $height; ?>px"  /></p>
	<?php } ?>

	<?php } ?>

	<?php the_content('Read the whole story &raquo;'); ?>
	</div>

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

	</div>

	<?php } ?>

above starts with 'if(!is_paged()) {' eg: if it is not paged - on first page only
and the end is the closing bracket for that stuff '}'

keeping a backup of a working index.php you can't do anything bad to your wordpress installation, just put it back if a change doesn't work.

btw: did you replace your timthumb.php with an updated version??
see http://forum.go41.de/topic/security-vulnerability-in-timthumbphp-of-some-themes

1. worked - its now the newest post, despite what category its in. But I would like to exclude the featured category. It must only be showed on featured, nowhere else.
2. I have a One-column list, but the first post i shown in full lenght. I would like them all to be just excerpts.

You can see my page here: http://www.familjan.fo/

Annie

to show your latest post in headline, no matter which category:
in header.php is the query for headline posts, this query checks for the category you choose for headlines, should be now like this:

<?php
		//Get value from Admin Panel
			$cp_categories = get_categories('hide_empty=0');
			$ar_headline = get_settings( "ar_headline" );
			if( $ar_headline == 0 ) { $ar_headline = $cp_categories[0]->cat_ID; }
			query_posts( 'showposts=1&cat=' . $ar_headline );
		 	?>

change just the query_posts line to get:

<?php
		//Get value from Admin Panel
			$cp_categories = get_categories('hide_empty=0');
			$ar_headline = get_settings( "ar_headline" );
			if( $ar_headline == 0 ) { $ar_headline = $cp_categories[0]->cat_ID; }
			query_posts( 'showposts=1' );
		 	?>

this should show your latest post only ..

Featured stay as you set the category ..

In the 'front-list' in index.php are all posts from your featured and headline category excluded, so these post will not show up twice.
BUT your post from the new headline, your latest post, will show (if it's not in headline or featured category)
You could avoid this by starting the front-list at the second post only (offset=1)
this is done in index.php where you should have now:

<?php query_posts(array(
			'category__not_in' => array($ar_headline,$ar_featured),
			'showposts' => 1,
			)); ?>

here you add the offset like this:

<?php query_posts(array(
			'category__not_in' => array($ar_headline,$ar_featured),
			'showposts' => 1,
			'offset'=>1,
			)); ?>

now fron-list will start with the second post.

question no.2 I do not get: 'without having to set in the 'The More Tag' every time'
where is latest posts?

question no.3 video embed code, is this for the latest video post? no idea, try any youtube embed code you find under the clips in youtube

Comments off: here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-comments-off-section you could find a solution, Justin Tadlock says:
Using false removes the "Comments Off" message.

<?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments', 'comments-link', false); ?>

you have to change this where ever the 'comments_popup_link' is called, try it in index.php in the front-list part.

I don´t want to change 'featured', just show most recent (newest) post as 'headline' and the subsequent posts continuing below.

:)
Annie

1.I would like to have the latest post where the 'headline' in the headline spoiler is.
2. I would like to only have excerpt in the 'latest post list' (without having to set in the 'The More Tag' every time)
3.Where do I find the video 'Embed Code'? (What is it?)
4. How do I remove 'Comments off'

I changed the language, it worked like a charm, even without the 'non-latin-codes'
Thank you!

Best regards Annie

let's say you take index.php or header.php (headline/featured), you should find as example:

<?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments');?>

In german I would change to:

<?php comments_popup_link('kein Kommentar', 'ein Kommentar', '% Kommentare');?>

same way it works with all english text you like to change to your language, like:

<?php the_content('Read the whole story &raquo;'); ?>

where you could change 'Read the whole story'

having 'Umlauts' you might have to use html entities like:

for this: fjøruti, fýrati

write in html encoded: fjøruti, fýrati

(hope to see a difference after saving..)

best would be to find any theme localized to fo and look how they did it

The size of the player you can set in sidebarclip.php:
'width'=>300,
'height'=>250 ));
to another value
use style.css to arrange that players as you like - first you have to get them to show up..

you might try get_items(0, 4) to get 4 latest clips and or change the player size from '300','250' to any other size you like

That's about your user channel feed.

In the new post I use a very different way, taking any video of anyone from your latest post in the category you choose.
That is explained here:
http://forum.go41.de/topic/add-latest-video-from-a-post-in-wordpress-sidebar

I'd like to ask, and pray I don't offend you, does this mean that you can only pull those 4 stills (as the coding in an earlier post in this thread shows how to do) in from offsite using SimplePie outside a widget? What I was hoping to accomplish was pulling the stills from my YouTube channel and have them update automatically with the latest video stills from there as a teaser on my main site, but control the display pages. Is what I'm asking possible, and if it is, how would I accomplish this?

Again, I thank you for your patience and I'm truly grateful for your continued help.

add latest video from a post in WordPress sidebar

other ways to get video code from WordPress post or resize a video here

get the oembed code of a video in a WP 2.9 post from postmeta

or here

Change width and height in oembed code on the fly in WordPress