I am able to get to my admin page after I install WordPress. tutorial said to click on link at top tool bar to bring up my WordPress Twenty Eleven theme -- it does not bring up the themed website, but our regular website.
How can I get the themed webpage to come up?
my theme page does not open up - only my website (34 posts)
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ymwilson
Posted 11 months ago #
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What is your site URL?
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loughcorrib
Posted 11 months ago #
I presume your 'regular website' is html Wp is php i.e. yoursite.com/wp
or yoursite.com/index.php or similar what 2 address's have you in wp admin
settings try calling these urls first you can 'prettify' after -
Posted 11 months ago #
woodlandscounselingservices.net
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Posted 11 months ago #
Loughcorrib --- please excuse me -- I am probably about 15 or more steps behind you in my tech knowledge
these are the 2 sites wordpress has for me.
Site URL: http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.net
Login URL: http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.net/wp-adminI don't mind prettifying later, but just thought that the site that should come up should have the format/theme layout that I was aiming for - not my main website. it is the same address as my website that I have had for a while and am not using for my blog
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Posted 11 months ago #
Please forgive me for this but,what do you mean by 'main website' are you trying to replace a previous html site with wp.
If so you can put wordpress in a folder call it from there and take down the html
i.e yoursite.net/wp/index.php
you call your wp site from index.php , if this is the case just have a look at the urls in wp admin settings. -
Posted 11 months ago #
I appreciate your patience.
Main website -- I am referring to our website.
Then we decided to create a blog. -- enter WordPress.
So I am not trying to replace our website.so in response to your note "If so you can put wordpress in a folder call it from there and take down the html
i.e yoursite.net/wp/index.php"
I will not be doing this.then you wrote "you call your wp site from index.php , if this is the case just have a look at the urls in wp admin settings."
Am I understanding correctly that this notation would not apply to my desire to have a blog website with the theme I chose. -
Posted 11 months ago #
There is a simple solution, you have a html website. Create the wp blog in a folder or better again on a subdomain and provide a link from your original site.
I will help you along with implementation -
Posted 11 months ago #
Wow
You are too kind. thank you.
ok
so I am going to create a subdomain for my wp blog and link it to my html website.
I have downloaded WP and I have an admin page -- what next. -
Posted 11 months ago #
Ok "be the holy mackerel"you American Lad's are all the same slow down.You don't need to download yet.Go ahead and create a subdomain give it a good name that you and google like for example 'mybible.mysite.net'
We can index this to google eventually.
Then download wp to this site. Get back to me when you have this done. -
Posted 11 months ago #
ok
where in the universe are you if I am an American Lass. -
Posted 11 months ago #
I said American Lads 'google loughcorrib' we are the centre of the univerese. Meanwhile 'back at the ranch'have you set up the subdomain. Let's get down to business.
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@ymwilson,
It seems WordPress is already installed and the login form comes up nicely. Are you able to login? -
Posted 11 months ago #
When you have the site set up on your subdomain you have a few options for linking it from your main site.A standard link,tab or image.
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Posted 11 months ago #
Thanks so much for your patience. I have issues around me that are keeping me from focusing on this. I did get a subdomain.
counselorchat.woodlandscounselingservices.netI will not be able to get back to the forum until sometime tomorrow.
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Posted 11 months ago #
Just up load your wp to the subdomain, and link from the html site, using a tag, image or similar and do the same in wp back to the html site.
This way you have two sites and can have a url for both also linking across both. -
Posted 11 months ago #
up load your wp to the subdomain --- how is this done --
I have this option on bluehost where I have set up my subdomain ----
counselorchat.woodlandscounselingservices.net redirects to →
and then I can enter whereever I want it directed to.
Maybe this feature would more specifically fit into the part of your instruction that said -- do the same in wp back to the html site.
Obviously I am a little confused --link from the html site -- is tag, image or similar? better -- easily identifiable to the lookers on his web. What do the several options look like -- The Blog icon? -- which I would probably want something a little more visually descriptive or motivating, maybe " My CounselorChat Blog"
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Would you like
http://counselorchat.woodlandscounselingservices.netto be your blog? -
Posted 11 months ago #
@wmwilson treat these as two separate sites you can specify the subdomain name for example newname.sitename.com keep the newname short but descriptive for your users . Then set up wp as normal to a domain
You will not use redirect perhaps you mean direct subdomain to wp folder How did you originally set up wp in main site It will be exactly the same procedure for subdomain -
@loughcorrib,
He is more or less on the correct path. He has already setup a subdomain as I quoted above. Just guide him how he can do that easily. -
Posted 11 months ago #
Have a read here and get back to me. It goes through the procedure for bluehost subdomain and wordpress.Link
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
Step by step and we'll get there hope above is useful, When you have wp up we will then clean things up a bit. -
Posted 11 months ago #
Hi see where direct command coming from it's a direction for subdomain to domain. Then as before treat as a normal domain .what is your situation now
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Posted 11 months ago #
finally
I installed WP to my subdomain.
I have my subdomain "just another WP website" opened now.
Ready for next step. -
Well, good enough! I hope this is what you wanted.
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Posted 11 months ago #
Great o.k. copy this save it to your pc for the moment.
<a href="http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.net/">My Blog</a>
If you paste this in a browser it will take you to your main site
you can replace the "my blog" with what you would like as this is what is humanly readable.
You can also paste it into a widget on your new blog. -
Posted 11 months ago #
I put this link in my browser and it gave me a search page for blog help. -- not my site.
I have to retire until tomorrow --
if you are a dad
Happy Father's Day. -
Posted 11 months ago #
I should have explained you paste this in the browser
http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.netwhereas this creates a link from another site
<a href="http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.net/">My Blog</a>Same here see you tomorrow
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Posted 11 months ago #
@ymwilson here are the two links required FOR wordpress site AND html site
BELOW IS PASTED IN TO WP TO LINK TO HTML SITE
<a href="http://www.woodlandscounselingservices.net/">MYSITE</a>AND BELOW IS PASTED INTO HTML TO GET TO WP
<a href="http://counselorchat.woodlandscounselingservices.net">MYWPBLOG</a>Change between
> and </a>and on both change to what you would like clients to read. i.e.change MYWPBLOG to counselPlease forgive not fully explaining yesterday it was 2am here so!!
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Posted 11 months ago #
Are you there today???
Wow -- I was absent for a while -
I guess I will continue to say "thanks for being patient with me"
I want to ask you this tech question in regard to your last instruction -- then one more question for now1)PASTED IN TO WP --- where do I look for where to past this -- just in wordpress.org -- I didn't see any pages that looked like it might have what I want.
2) can you tell me - based on how elementary you are having to explain things -- is this whole project I am wanting to undertake really going to be possible - because I realized the past 2 tasks probably should have taken 20 minutes max and it seemed it took 3 hours each. you won't hurt my feeliings if you say -- I need a little more training in html talk or I just do not have the kind of brain that thinks in these kinds of challenges!! -
kmessinger
Posted 11 months ago #
The problem is that you and others did not communicate successfully.
Your "regular" website was just one page. You can copy the html for that page and paste it into a WordPress Page. Then you set that page as a static page. No subdomains, links, etc. Then you create a blank page and call that Counsel. That page will have your posts from WordPress.
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
That happens to me too much but yes you can do wp successfully.I realized the past 2 tasks probably should have taken 20 minutes max and it seemed it took 3 hours each.
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