Boldy – need help

Link? It’s very hard to see what you mean if you don’t provide a link.

Did you check out this:

http://wordpress.site5.net/boldy/doc/

Cheers

PAE

Right. Your home page looks like a page rather than a posts page. Those ‘Home’ boxes all link to one of your other pages (Services). The template being used here is probably either front-page.php or index.php (see the WordPress Template Hierarchy)

Your ‘About’, ‘Services’ and ‘Contact’ pages are WP Pages (as opposed to Posts) and are top level as far as I can see. They are using a template taken from the bottom line of the template hierarchy image (i.e. where is_page() is TRUE), depending on what has been defined for your site.

Your ‘Blog’ page is a category list where the category=23. Similarly, the sub-menu items under ‘Blog’ are category lists for different categories. These will be using something from the middle line of the template hierarchy image, where is_category() is TRUE, on the row that deals with categories.

The situation is similar for ‘Portfolio’ and sub-menu items, although the template is different. So for that layout, you will need to see what files exist in the theme along that categories row (see template hierarchy image).

As far as I can see, the same template is used every time for single posts (where is_single() is TRUE), so you should see the code in either single.php or index.php depending on what the theme provides.

If you want some pages other than the front page to look like the front page, you need to first of all find out what template the front page is using (see above) and then use the code from that template, suitably modified, in the template file for the pages whose appearance you want to change.

I’d be very reluctant to mess about like this without doing it in a child theme. If you do decide to change the theme directly, make sure you keep good notes and good backups so that you can backtrack when you have to.

Hopefully, somebody else can come up with a simpler way of doing this, but from what I can see, you’re going to have to mess with templates to get what you want, if I understand you correctly, of course.

HTH

PAE

i have one time this problem and i didn’t know how to make work and i abandoned the theme .

I don’t know what you mean by saying that you don’t have a page that ‘looks like’ the home page.

Does your theme have a file called one of these:

• index.php
• home.php
• front-page.php

The layout is almost certainly in one of those (along with, probably, header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php, depending on how your theme is constructed) and possibly some others like loop.php or loop-index.php and so on.

The only way you will know, is to look at your theme’s files in:

http://wordpress.site5.net/boldy/wp-content/themes/the-theme-folder

(substitute the proper path for the placeholders in the path above)

Unless someone can think of an easier way of doing what you want to do, you need to develop an in-depth knowledge of how WP selects PHP files in order to render pages, and an in-depth knowledge of how your theme uses that. You will also need to understand HTML, CSS and PHP, of course. If you don’t have these skills and your boss really wants this theme, then he’ll either have to pay for consultancy or get you trained up.

In the meantime you might like to post a list of the files contained in your theme’s folder. We can probably then let you know of some likely places to look for the code you want.

Cheers

PAE

Yes. The page’s layout is different because it is using a different template. That’s what I’m trying to explain to you.

That page’s layout is contained in one of the template files I referred you to. You cannot, as far as I know, do what you want to do without messing about with the raw PHP template files unless there is something special in the theme’s settings in the Dashboard that I don’t know about. And I’m assuming there isn’t since you say you’ve checked the documentation.

In fact I just downloaded the theme to have a look. The home page layout is in a file called home.php. If you want your other pages to look like this (presumably with their own content) you will have to create a child theme, if you’re wise, and copy the bits of the PHP code that you want from home.php to—probably—page.php. There is also a file called portfolio.php that determines how the portfolio pages are laid out. You might need to mess with that as well. Either way, you need to know what you’re doing. It’s probably not just a copy and paste job: although you could try that first (in a child theme) since it will at least show you what you need to do to get it right.

If you don’t understand what I’m talking about I’m afraid it probably means that you don’t have the skills necessary to do what you want: unless somebody else out there knows of an easier way, of course. Nobody’s said anything yet, though.

Cheers

PAE

Actually, you’re right in this case. I’ve been misunderstanding you.

I hadn’t realised you’d pointed me to the boldy demo site. I need to see your site so I can understand what’s happening, if that’s possible.

Are you sure you’ve done *everything* set out in the documentation:

http://wordpress.site5.net/boldy/doc/

In particular, have you set up a primary navigation menu?

My guess is that you will have to set your home page to be a Page rather than a list of Posts, too, although I don’t see that in the docs. I’ll know better if I can see your site.

Cheers

PAE

You go to Dashboard –> Boldy Options.

But first you should have followed exactly the instructions in the documentation. So let’s take it step by step.

Home boxes: you appear to have done that.
Blurb: you appear to have done that.

Setting up the home slider: have you done that? It tells you to do this:

• You simply create a page and insert the images, one after another.
• Then make sure you select it on Options page.

Have you done that?

When you’re happy with that, we’ll move on.

Cheers

PAE

Boldy puts the home page together from various other pages (the slider, the boxes etc). So you determine the content by modifying the content in these pages.

But the reason why you’re having the trouble you are is that you don’t appear to have set a custom primary navigation menu. This means that your home page appears when you follow the link you give, but doesn’t appear when you click on ‘Home’ in your menu.

Setting up the menu is described under “Menu Management” in the Boldy documentation. Note that you have to both create the menu and set it as your Main Menu.

Cheers

PAE