Different pages & different templates

  • Resolved alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hey

    No doubt this has been asked a million times and that there is a very simple answer however my knowledge of WordPress is still very basic.

    I use my site – alasdairsim.com – predominately as a basis for my freelance writing work however I have recently set up a blog on that site – alasdairsim.com/blog

    As you can see on my site, my name is on the left hand side – it is the Oulipo theme – I would however want this to change to something else for my blog as I will be pointing another domain to it. Is there a simple way that I can basically keep everything the same on the two pages in terms of layout etc… but change the page title – in this case where my name is? Apologies if this is an extremely simple question.

    Second; on my blog I use the <more> tag so that only the heading of the post and a brief description appears and then the reader can click the link the display the full post; I would like the date that the content was posted under each Blog post heading on the actual Blog page as opposed to just showing when the whole post is displayed – i.e. once the user clicks the ‘Read More’ link.

    Hopefully I have been descriptive enough here and no doubt there are two very simple answers to my questions however any help would be most appreciated.

    Alasdair

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  • Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    In my first post I said that I wanted to “change the page title” for my blog page; I mean the title of the site that you enter in Settings > Site Title.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Try editing header.php and changing:

    <h1 class="masthead"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"><?php bloginfo('name');?></a></h1>

    to:

    <?php
if( is_home() ) $my_sitename = 'Enter Blog site name here';
else $my_sitename = get_bloginfo('name);?>
<h1 class="masthead"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"><?php echo $my_sitename;?></a></h1>
    Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you so much esmi! Worked perfectly.

    Would you have any advice on my second problem? Apologies if this not the right section for it?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Edit the relevant template file (which I think is index.php in this case) and try changing:

    <h2><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title();?>" rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>

    to:

    <h2><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title();?>" rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
<p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS\, Y'); ?></p>
    Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    emsi; it didn’t work unfortunately.

    http://alasdairsim.com/blog/ still doesn’t show up any post date info unless you view the actual post.

    Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    The first fix worked initially now my site is just coming up as a blank white page with the

    <?php
if( is_home() ) $my_sitename = 'Enter Blog site name here';
else $my_sitename = get_bloginfo('name);?>
<h1 class="masthead"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"><?php echo $my_sitename;?></a></h1>

    code there?

    http://pastebin.com/bU6dvHQE is a link to the code in my header.php

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    If the code change worked initially, it wouldn’t throw an error later on. What else did you change?

    Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    I only thing I tried to change was the URL that the site title pointedtwo; so it pointed to the blog and not the static page.

    I’ve since uploaded all of the original theme files – header.php etc… and it still gives me a blank page when I insert the code.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    How exactly did you change the url(s)?

    Thread Starter alasdairsim

    (@alasdairsim)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    I found the problem with the code;

    <?php
    if( is_home() ) $my_sitename = ‘Enter Blog site name here’;
    else $my_sitename = get_bloginfo(‘name);?>

    the (‘name) is missing an ‘…so it should be (‘name’). I must have deleted it at some point and not noticed.

    Thanks for all your help Esmi.

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