This information in Codex should help:
Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
And this plugin may help:
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/home-page-control/
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butch1
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ohh, ohh, I did that but something happened. I lost my ability to get on the website….did something wrong obviously but can;t correct it now….because I cant get back on to correct it.
As a guess, you maybe changed your URI’s? This link may be helpful. Read it over first to make sure it applies..
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/
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butch1
(@butch1)
this is what happens: Warning: main(../wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/butch1/public_html/blog/index.php on line 4
Warning: main(../wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/butch1/public_html/blog/index.php on line 4
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/butch1/public_html/blog/index.php on line 4
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butch1
(@butch1)
yes, I did that – I changed back to the original URL but it still didn’t work
I am thinking I need to reload the whole thing. but not sure how to uninstall/re-install….
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butch1
(@butch1)
whew, no I managed to get my page back without a reinstall
but now back to my original problem….It is there in a subdirectory but i don’t know how to access it from within the program. I want to use it as a new page in my menu options and add to it as in questions/comments. This is where I have a mental disconnect…sorry I sound so dumb-but I am totally lost.I don’t know why I have a mental block here-it is more complicated than I had first thought(or I am making it that way :-)..Thanks for any help you can provide…
Why can’t you add a normal link to it:
a href="http://www.botticellofarms.net/blog/">Here is my blog</a> ?
in your main page menu?
i don’t know how to access it from within the program.
I am not sure I understand what exactly do you mean by this? Which program/ Access what? You want to get into the admin interface? >> http://www.botticellofarms.net/blog/wp-admin
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butch1
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Thanks, sorry I am not expressing myself correctly…I want to work the blog from my front page editor. The files are there-but I do not know how to appy them to a page in my website menu…I want the blog to operate within my website – not as a stand alone page. the wp folders are downloaded into my website software. WP is there with all the html language-and many files-how do I attach them to a page that would operate as the wp editor does? sorry if this sounds confusing-probably because I am confused.
work the blog from my front page editor.
If you mean Microsoft’s FrontPage – forget it right now. No, you cannot edit WP files with that thing. Don’t even try to open WP files in FP, it doesn’t work. Sorry.
If you want your blog to “operate” as part of your website (i.e. having the same look and feel) – you have to create a theme for your blog. Unfortunately, that requires a certain level of skills in HTML and CSS, without using a wysiwyg editor.
P.S. You could have saved a lot of trouble by having a more eaxct title for your topic: naming FrontPage as a software, otherwise everybody thought you are referring to your site’s “main page”.
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butch1
(@butch1)
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was going nuts. I am simply going to keep the link as I originally had it -and link it from all my pages in my front page website…One more question (if you aren’t ready to hang yourself with all my dumb questions already…) There are theme templates that I would like to use but not all are listed on the theme pages-How would I download them? (actually download is not the problem-extrating the zip to the theme page is) any instruction anywhere on how to do that(eye roll sensor detected..sorry). Interestingly enough I had set up word press through my cpanel and didn’t get certain admin rights (ie: feedback,an API key, and many theme templates) I was notified this had to do with me being the admin of my own site, that is the reason I assumed that I would be able to run WP within my frontpage software…I may be slow but I promise I do learn…eventually
Always too many questions for one single post 😉
Re Themes. On the Codex page I gave you above, you can find detailed instructions about installing new themes Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes.
The easy steps:
1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip/extract the file from the .zip
For this you need some kind of software installed on your computer that can do it!
3. Upload the theme files – keeping the dreictory structure if there is any – to your site via a FTP program.
4. Every theme should reside in its own directory under wp-content/themes/themename/
5. Then go into admin panel… etc.
I don’t know who notified you that you don’t have full admin rights on your own blog – but that person was a moron 🙂
WP comes with only 2 themes: classic and default.
But you can add about 400 – which seems to be the number of themes out there.
For API key and Akismet – just click the link in the description to learn more.
