I edit all my files in Dreamweaver. For what you’re talking about doing it would mainly be sidebar.php and style.css you’d need to edit.
It is always good to clarify: you can use DW only in code mode, not as a wysiwyg gizmo!
Thanks. I will do this. I am only working in code view for this, but I appreciate the warning/clarification!
Cheers!
Ellie
I found out how to edit this on the server, by assigning permissions to the file (777).
I have another question about this. I cannot seem to find a way to have comments able to be added by visitors. Does anyone know where this would be enabled?
Thanks
Ellie
I found out how to edit this on the server, by assigning permissions to the file (777).
Yeah, and if you didn’t change the permissions back – you’ll also find out soon how painful is to be hacked 🙂
Did you check the settings in admin > Options > Discussion? and the same for individual posts under the Discussion on the right?
Woops! Well I will change back as soon as I have finished for the day. And only change them for the time I am working on them.
No, I did not change settings as I am really feeling my way with this.
I guess this sounds really stupid to you, but we all have to learn somewhere.
While you are helping out (thank you) can you tell me how I will add the links to the left side (currently two are there, home and pAbout. I would like different ones if possible.
Ellie
The options on the Discussion Options page already say allow people to post comments on the article. But there is link for adding a comment.
I hope you don’t think I can remember the specifics of more than a thousand themes – so I have no idea how your theme looks like and what is to be edited to get the desired result.
The site attached to your profile is not a WP site… so I don’t know.
Sorry, just thought that this was only for WP-Andreas 01. Which is what I am using. The access is http://www.shadowsandlight.ca/index.php
Thanks for the help.
I meant that there is no link for adding a comment.
Ellie
The “comments none” is THE link 🙂
and unless you remove the index.html file from your root it will never work…
Oh, thanks for that info, Moshu, I will try tomorrow as soon as I get back to it (and change permission back to write for the css file).
Of course you are right , it will not work until I do, but I want to get it working right first, which is why I have left the index.html page on the site for the moment. Aside from anything else, I don’t want that image in place, but am working on another graphic.
And, if I can pick your brains for one more time, where can I add/change the links on the left hand side, please?
Thanks again,
Ellie
Most likely just adding Pages to your blog – they will appear there.
Adding links manually? Probably in a template file called sidebar.php or something similar.
Okay, thanks, I see about adding pages. What I cannot quite see from here is how to change the path on pages that were there to start with, and how to put a path in when a page is created. I will see if I can see an obvious place in the files on the site.
Thanks
Ellie
In most of the themes the Pages are displayed by using this template tag:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
If the exclude parameter is not used, all the Pages created are displayed.
The “home” link must be a manually added link, so following that example you should be able to add more non-Page links, too.
Thanks again Moshu.
Where would I find the Comments None bit? I have searched for it without success.
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