Thanks for the heads up on that Keith. I try to catch those, but WordPress changes it every time I edit a post, so I miss those sometimes.

I can download the files from your site. I can't guarantee I'll have a chance to check it out, but thanks for the heads up Allen!

I just noticed I gave a solution a while back in the case the author doesn't write an excerpt in response to packfan77's comment above. Did you try that?

If you mean the link below the comments section that says "Sign up for IntenseDebate", that's added by default when you install the IntenseDebate comment system. Hope that answers your question.

Have you tried printing the excerpt for those posts before using string functions to make sure wordpress is actually returning an excerpt in the first place?

As an aside, you should be able to hit enter on the comments text area without it submitting. This is a new comment system, so if anyone else is having that problem, let me know so I can look into it.

What's the problem?

Glad I could be of some help!

I just replied to your contact form inquiry. One other thing, have you given the navMenu custom field a value of "yes" (without quotes) only on the pages you want to show up in the navigation menu?

Also, make sure you have this line where it belongs (a previous version of this article had this line written incorrectly and was causing similar errors):
if(strtolower(get_post_meta($page->ID, $key, true)) == 'yes')

How about border-left: 1px solid black; or something like that in the CSS?

My $post variable quick-reference may help a bit as well.
http://wordpresshacker.com/wordpress-post-variabl...