neil_CND
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Hi everyone,
I'm running Wordpress version 2.8 on my website: http://www.centerfoldnextdoor.com. I haven't added a link to the blog in the nav bar yet BC of this unresolved image. However, you can find my blog home page at: http://www.centerfoldnextdoor.com/blog. I installed the "Selector" theme and customized the "example" template that comes with it to create a "skin" for blogging that looks similar to the rest of my site. I created a post called "Welcome to Centerfold Next Door.com." When I go to my blog home page I see my custom skin and in the upper left there is a large (approximately 320px x 304px) box with a question mark icon. If I click on it it loads my post.
How do I replace this big stupid-looking "?" image with something more appropriate, such as the name of the post and perhaps a few lines from it?
A little bit about me, I created the site by hand-coding it in (X)HTML and CSS. I'm learning PHP right now but still a beginner with it.
Thanks in advance!
-Neil
neil_CND
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Okay, I solved my problem by switching to the "Blend" theme. Apparently the "Selector" theme does not provide the back-end coding to display post content or title on the home page; it simply displays an image called "noimage.png" where the post would ordinarily go on the homepage. There is a "hot-spot" in the the roughly 300px x 300px square that contains "noimage.png." The "hot-spot" takes you to the post if you click on it. However, as I said, there is no text whatsoever in that 300x300 box. I'm sure Constructor is a lovely theme but I'm new to WP and not ready to code the basic function of having my posts appear on the home page.
That being said, I do have a new question... My awesome new blog homepage (http://www.centerfoldnextdoor.com/blog) has a nav bar just below the "Masthead" and directly above the body content. The defualt links are "Home" , which brings me to the blog homepage and "About" which brings me to a sample page that I didn't write. I would like to edit these links. First-off, I'd like to change the label of "Home" to "Blog Home" so that people don't think it's going to take them back to the index page of Centerfoldnextdoor.com. Next I'd like to get rid of "About" since it links to a BS sample page that I don't need or want. Finally, I'd like to add a link to return to my website's homepage : http://www.centerfoldnextdoor.com. Can someone please tell me which specific PHP file in which specific directory would need to be edited in order to accomplish this task? Also, can you give a hint as to what the basic structure of the code would be? I know how to write a nav bar in HTML using a
