Theme Boxy Blue

can u show me the theme?

that url comes bk invalid

the above post is correct, u just login into your admin of wordpress and click manager pages and u can edit it. good luck

Here’s some info for editing files

It probably shouldn’t take more than five or ten minutes – really very painless

Oops about the WP 2.5 thing, but I looked on the right column of this page where it says WP version and it says 2.3.3. My apologies. 🙂

What about the top right hand side where it says the info goes here? Are you amilar withf that?

Hi, laurasimmons!

If you use your favorite editor to open the sidebar.php file in the boxy-blue theme folder, the first thing you will see is this:

<!-- begin sidebar -->
<div id="menu">
<div id="nav">
<div class="about">
About information goes here.
Nifty information like where you live, if you have a dog, what you like on your hotdogs, ect. <a href="/about/">More</a>

</div> <!-- end .about -->

You should be able to change it to suit your needs.

This theme comes with track backs and ping backs. I only want ping backs, how do I change that setting?

You can have a more “granular” control, so to speak, by navigating to your dashboard > settings > discussion, and checking your settings on the “allow pingbacks and trackbacks” tick box. You can also fine tune this feature per post by changing the settings in the “trackbacks” and “comments and pings” areas located at the bottom of the page when you create a post.

Lastly, I created several categories in my admin panel, but on the blog roll section I only the word category, I don’t see my categories. Aren’t they supposed to show up?

They will probably not show up until you write a post for each category. If I create a category named “Texas”, it most likely won’t show up in the sidebar until I write a post and assign it to the category “Texas”. Make sense? I hope I helped some…

By the way, I happen to like the contrast between black and reds, it seems to be one of the few combinations that looks really good with various shades of brown or gold. It looks like you have a good start.

Best wishes,

Cj

Hi Laura,

I can tell you must be pretty stressed out.

Is it really necessary for people to use their real names on the internet? And how do you know that that is his real name? 🙂

It shouldn’t take more than 5 or 10 minutes to accomplish everything you wanted to achieve.

I read the entire question. And I answered them. I even pointed you to places that would help. You are welcome.

The 2.5 vs. 2.3.3 is in reference to this page that you are reading right now at this minute. Take a look at the right sidebar where it says “About This Topic.” Read down a little bit and you will see that it says that you are using version 2.3.3. That was the source of the confusion. You are responsible for filling that information out. It helps people provide solutions.

“Hardcoded” means that the code is written directly into a file. In the case of the trackbacks and pings, it might be hardcoded into single.php. Some theme designers do that. You should not need an IT person to edit them. All you need to do is read the link I gave you about editing files and follow the instructions.

You need an FTP program like Filezilla to open sidebar.php so that it can be edited with a text editor like NotePad. Read the FTP program’s documentation on how to accomplish this

You really seem to be enthusiastic about getting your site in order, and I commend you for it. But you might want to take a little more time reading the documentation and getting familiar with the terminology, or you’ll find yourself pulling your hair out.

Peace