Basic PHP and Chateau theme – browser titles and preview thumbnails

  • AlexStarbuck

    (@astrbac)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hello everyone!

    Im a new self hosted blog WordPress user with about zero programming experience and I am havin some problem s setting up my blog.

    My site: http://lifemoretasty.com
    Theme: Chateau by Ignacio Ricci

    1. Dashboard > Appearance > Editor
    – which of the files I need to modify if I want to change page BROWSER titles, the ones that appear in the very top of the window, above address bar?

    2. How can I put small “previews” of images that are inside a post in a preview that shows on the homepage?

    For example, when you get to my site’s homepage there are few previews of posts with “COntinue reading” links. I wish to display small images in each one of these in order to make it more interesting to the readers.

    Thank you for all the responses!
    Alex

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    1 edit header.php between the <title></title> tags (make a backup first).

    2 Use Post Thumbnails (if your theme supports it)

    sam

    (@samfusion)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    1. To change the title,

    Under General Settings, you can change:
    Site Title
    Tagline

    2. Use following plugin to auto generate thumbnail for your posts:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thumbnail-for-excerpts/screenshots/

    Thread Starter AlexStarbuck

    (@astrbac)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hm, I have looked at the lines between the title tags and there is too much for me to mess with. I don/t know where to insert the title I wish to have so I think I wont touch it.

    I have tried these and other plugins but none seem to work. I guess I’ll just change theme and thats it.

    Phuh, WordPress is powerful platform but definitely not for beginners (like myself)

    Cheers and thanx!

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    What do you want to change in the title?

    Thread Starter AlexStarbuck

    (@astrbac)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    I don’t want to change the title in the settings (which currently says Life more tasty) but rather the BROWSER title. I want to learn which line to modify in order to assign different browser titles to different pages.

    For instance, while viewing this page and typing my post, it reads: “WordPress> Support> Basic PHP and Chateau theme”… etc

    Cheers!

    EDIT: Just checked again – The titles do again work/change as I click through my posts. Now all I need is this thumbnail solution

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Check your theme’s functions.php for something simular to add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

    If that is not in functions.php put this in there:

    if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 150, 150, true ); // default Post Thumbnail dimensions (cropped)
}

    and in your theme’s index.php just before the_content() or the_excerpt() put this:

    <?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
  the_post_thumbnail();
}
?>

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