My previous discovery on how to make a single post from a single category appear on the index page in a wordpress site was not the best solution. At all. It caused a battle between the .css and the recent post loop! The page displayed visually what i wanted: 1 post from category ‘diary’. When viewing the site on someone else’s computer (with slow internet) i watched him become (subtley) frustrated with the page load time and go somewhere else for the information he was after! 11-12 seconds to load a page with 300k max of images!
So right click, view source: the result was ridiculous! The html from all five recent posts was displayed! I tried deactivating rps include, posts in a page, all in one SEO; no affect. More research made me remember (yes i forgot how i originally modded the index page until I checked itDoesCompute, heh) my .css hack. Bad hack, BAD HACK!
Code is poetry as WP states. If you do it properly! I have, now. And it works just fine! all those shapes dot com