Changing “lorem ipsom” text

laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

I’ve been digging through the codex for three days now, and I can’t seem to find any answer for this. Its probably the easiest thing in the world for everyone else, but I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. I’ve installed WordPress, and everything is a go. I have the default theme running, and its only showing whatever default text is in there. I just would like to now change, for example, the “loreum ipsum” text, or the about section, or just anything on the page from being generic, to me! I have tried changing the text in the code, and it says it updated the file, but then the changes never show up on my webpage. It stays exactly as it was before, even though it shows what I changed in the code. The only thing that will show is up is the title of my webpage. How in the heck to make this blog yours, and not just the generic theme with none of your info in it? I just can’t figure it out….

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bpartch
(@bpartch)

17 years, 10 months ago

Hello

Have you been to: your-site.com/wp-admin/? Change it to whatever domain your WP is installed at.

There you should be able to edit all “posts” and “pages” under the “Manage” link, then there will be sub links in that section to edit “posts”, “pages”, “categories”, “comments” and so on…

Also, if you are logged in while viewing the posts, there should be a “Edit” link of some sort below each post on the main page and also on each posts single page.

Hope this is what you we’re asking and I hope it helps.

maerk
(@maerk)

17 years, 10 months ago

Do you have a link that we could look at?

Thread Starter laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

Thanks for your replys! Here is a link to my site http://www.laurenrene.com/wordpress

In the side bar, it has a little dable of text that says “Here is the sidebar. I guess you can really do whatever you want with it, be it news items or just good old fashion jibberish. Anyways, I am sure you are clever enough to think up something useful.” I was trying to figure out how to change that to say something else. I looked in the code for the sidebar in the editor, but it didn’t show any of that text. I found that text presented under the theme editor, on the “main index theme”. There is shows this text,but when I change this text to say what I want it to, it never shows on my page. Also, under “Manage/Files” it won’t show the files for this theme, it shows ones from a different theme, so I’m not sure how to edit these files from this editor. I”m not sure what’s going on with this…any ideas?

maerk
(@maerk)

17 years, 10 months ago

It’s almost definately in your theme files somewhere! Do you have more than one theme uploaded to your server? You might be checking the wrong files.

Your theme files are located in the number_2_v2 directory, have a check through all of them and you should be able to find what you’re looking for.

Thread Starter laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

well…I just tried again and, it showed the changes I attempted to make in the sidebar…so I’m not sure what was going on last night…wordpress decided it was just not going to work with me. However, under Manage/files its still not showing the files associated with my theme, its showing files from a different theme. How can i get wordpress to recognize I changed themes in the files? It lets me edit my current theme under Presentation/Theme Editor, but not Manage/Files….

Thread Starter laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

Yes, I do have more than one theme, and the theme files are in there. I suppose I can use my textedit program (i have a mac) to update the files, and then re-upload. But its sure nice to do it through the editor they provide so I don’t have to be at home on my home computer uploading to my site. It just seems wordpress is not showing the current theme’s files in the manage/files editor area, but it does show them in the theme editor. It still want to show the “dark maple” theme I had before. I’m away from my home computer, so I don’ thave access to my ftp to just get rid of those other theme files so wordpress can find the right one.

moshu
(@moshu)

17 years, 10 months ago

I never understood why to make major changes online?
Couldn’t you just edit your template files on your computer in a plain text editor and upload them? Keeping an original backup copy, of course, just in case…

red-star
(@red-star)

17 years, 10 months ago

Or use studio 8 or another dreamweaver. You can edit the files and then see the result first in your browser. After that you can upload the file with dreamweaver!

Thread Starter laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

Oh yes, that’s what I do when I’m at home 🙂 Except, I’m not at home, but would still like to play with my website, but I don’t have an ftp program on this computer I can use to access my webspace and be able to upload edited files(ya know, work computer), so any changes I want to make have to be done online. But, if the editor won’t show me the correct files to edit (because they belong to the theme I’m NOT using and trying to edit), and I don’t have a way to upload edited files while away from my home computer, I guess i’m just out of luck? Its no big deal, I just thought if I could play around and make a few edits small edits on my free time, why not? I”m not looking to majorly dig into code, just change existing text to something different, or minor changes like that. I’m happy with the bulk of the theme as is.

moshu
(@moshu)

17 years, 10 months ago

You can make online edits ONLY if the template file is writable (usually chmod 666 set via FTP – so, we are back to FTP:)
On the other hand, people tend to forget to set back the permissions which would leave your files not only writable for you but for any “happy hacker”. That’s one reason I always discourage online editing.

For editing theme template files the best is the > Presentation > Theme Editor panel, not the File Editor. The theme editor will show you the files from the active theme, however, you can select any theme for editing, without changing the active theme. See the dropdown at the top.

Thread Starter laurenrene
(@laurenrene)

17 years, 10 months ago

Oh ok, thanks! That does make sense. So it would be in good practice after editing the files and making them represent what I am looking for, to change the permissions so that it can’t be edited anymore? I’m content to wait until I get home to really play with my site, but it sure is fun on my lunch break.