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When I look to your sourcecode I can see an image URL for the leadimage but it does not work:

http://cast-on.com/new//homepages/36/d113714374/htdocs/new/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/leadimage.jpg

This may be for different reasons but a solution can be that the upload path can´t be detected correctly. Try the solution with absolute URLs (or paths) as I describe it here:

http://www.der-prinz.com/support-forum/general-theme-support/image-path-in-featured-articles/page-1/post-1470/#p1470

Michael Oeser said:

First you need a plugin to display the recent comments because there is still no WP function for that. Depending on the plugin you have to put the plugins function at the same position as the Wordpress function for the recent posts now sits. The blue part is the function for the recent posts. I use “Get Recent Comments” which works fine for me.

Thanks for your detailed response, Micheal. I actually got that far, and was unhappy with the way the recent comments were styled. I had a look at the style sheet and I think I've identified the correct div to make the changes. I'm not not entirely new to this, but tend to hunt around for information, and learn only what I need to know. So there are gaps in my knowledge.

Leaving the question of recent comments and the ui.tabs aside for the moment, I wonder if you can help me figure out why none of my custom field images are showing up on the main page? It's still a bit of a mess as I make sense of all the imported info, but you can check the site here: http://cast-on.com

As you can see, I'm getting borders around the fields where the custom field images should be, but no image. The names of each field are showing, except for the rightcolimage, which is too small for text. I'm using relative paths, but I've tried using the complete string as well, and still no joy. I've read all your tutorials, and been through the forum looking for info, but there has not been a problem like mine it seems.

I had a bit of trouble with custom fields after I imported the contents of an older WP blog into this new one (running wp2.6), but was able to correct it in MySql. There's either something ridiculously simple that I've overlooked, or there are darker forces at work due the import. The import also may have no bearing on my trouble whatsoever, but I've read of a number of problems in the WP support forum about weird custom fields after importing other blogs, and maybe there's a connection. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Your Website or Blog URL:
Your themes version: 2.5
Your WP Version: 2.6

I'd like to use recent comments instead of recent posts in the tabbed interface. I've a feeling the solution is a fairly straightforward tag, but I've tried raiding a number of comments plugins for code, and I just can't seem to find a solution I'm happy with. Most of the simple tags result in odd formatting, and I lack the css skills to make this area integrate with the rest of the site.

Best case scenario: I'd like my tabbed recent comments to look like the new comments snapshot in the wp2.5 dashboard, where the first comment shows an excerpt, and then beneath it, the next 4 comments show author name only and a link to the post, with the comment link shown first. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for how to make that happen?

Thanks very much.