WordPress.org

1. Donald Borham
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I am new to all of this. I find Wordpress the most exciting computer program since I first saw Visicalc with WYSIWYG. Feel this program will evolve into something as great as the current spread sheet programs.

   I am having an issue with my installation. I seem to be missing the administrative page of the dashboard. I do not have the write, manage comments, blogroll or presentation capability. I think I missed something in the set up or have turned something off by mistake. I think because I do not have this function my tabs do not work correctly. I have set up the parent and children relationships but they refuse to behave. If it were just the children I would understand but none are playing well together.

   Is there help for my static pages, or will I have to put up with the static cling?

2. gene02
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Did you have any of these functions before you set parent or children relationships? This sounds like a database issue. Are you using a custom template?

3. Donald Borham
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Sorry I was elsewhere. Thank you so much for sharing. I set the relationships. They stack correctly but do not function correctly on the pages. I am more concerned about not having the dashboard appear correctly. Am thinking the functionality of the tabs may be the template I am using. Did the disable process to the plug-ins it made no difference.

4. jonimueller
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I'm not understanding what your problem is. First you talk about templates and then you talk about the dashboard. And parent-child relationships. So obviously if you can set up categories (is that what this is a reference to?), your installation hurdle has been overcome.

   Is this a fresh installation of a brand new WP site? Be sure you are uploading the latest version.

   I cannot glean from your meandering statements WHAT exactly the problem is. And comparing WordPress to VisiCalc or a spreadsheet program makes no sense to me and in no way helps me to troubleshout your problem.

5. Donald Borham
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   THX I may not be clear. New install 2.8.4 The point with Visicalc may have been lost to you if you have not seen the impact of a new application and the impact on the computer world. Visicalc and WYSIWYG is the program that made the computer a business tool. Becoming a business tool is the reason companies like IBM invested in computers and why computers are what they are today. I believe WP is that kind of program. One that changes the world. Sorry to share my excitement in seeing a new history in the making.

   I have a problem with the appearance of the tabs in my static pages. As I was trying to solution to the appearance of the tab I went to youtube to see if there was a video related to the topic. In the videos they kept showing the Dashboard was where you manage the pages. The administrative banner tabs shown on the video is not what my dashboard looks like. I am thinking I have incorrectly setup my WP.

   Second in regards to tabs, I think some of the free templates do not work that well when you have a number of pages. Since having the tab problem I installed a new template where the tabs seem to function.

   So that leaves only the first problem. Have I done something wrong where I can not see the Admin banner to manage posts and pages, blogrolls, presentations, and comments?

6. numeeja
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Donald, I know exactly how you feel about WordPress, however I suspect you're looking at an old youtube video showing the admin interface of an old version. It is normal that there are no tabs along the top anymore, that was changed to the current menu along the left side in version 2.6.

   If you have a lot of static pages (and/or use parent/child pages) you need either A theme specifically tailored to deal with this, or use a plugin to add the functionality.

   For a sidebar menu, I like Srini G's Flexi Pages Widget plugin Which can show child pages only when on a parent/sibling page.

   Alternatively a drop-down menu plug-in could be used. For this I like Ryan Hellyer's PixoPoint Menu Plugin As an example of this, I used this plugin on the site I built for chartwell IT.

7. Donald Borham
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thank you so very much. Will give them a try

8. jonimueller
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   You're talking to an old dog, Donald (we won't say how old, let's just say the 70s were good to me and leave it at that!). I just didn't appreciate the analogy since I've been working with WordPress since 2004 and yes, it's come a long way and maybe because I use it everyday, this is lost on me. Shame on me. :)

   I was confused because your original post seemed to flip between installation and the dashboard and a theme so I wasn't sure what the problem was. Now I see you were covering several bases at once.

   numeeja is correct that the interface has changed dramatically in the last few releases. Here's an old one for you. To me, the latest version of the WP dashboard looks like the old 2.6x version of the MovableType dashboard. But that's just me.

   For sites with a lot of pages and child pages, I like to use the suckerfish flyout menu plugin but there are other ways to manipulate page and child page displays. Search the plugin repository to find the latest and greatest.

   Suckerfish:
   http://pixopoint.com/pixopoint-menu/

   PageMash:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/

   As to your question about managing pages and posts in the Dashboard, it seems somewhat less intuitive to me now. It relies heavily on AJAX so that if I'm at the office (night job) where we use an old and weirdly configured version of IE6, I can't even update some parts of it. That's just not right.

   But if you click on each section (Posts, Pages, Appearance, Plugins), it will slide open and let you click on individual links within where you can manage all of that.

   The one thing that's really great about the newer versions of WP is that you can now actually install a new plugin right from a zip distro on your hard drive. Forum software has been doing that for years now, about time WP came around. Especially since most everyone who uses WP lives and dies by the almightly plugin! :)

9. Donald Borham
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks for the reply.

   From your picture I would have thought that Visicalc predated your birth.

   I will try your suggestions. Being new to WP it's like too many lights on the dashboard. Assuming that themes are equal and work as stated is wrong on my part. I may have felt it was the page management when it was the theme. I currently have Inove and the functions are great but the colors are a bit too Goth for me.

Reply

You must log in to post.