Need urgent fix for custom theme problems

  • lucky3

    (@lucky3)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve put my website on WordPress by editing the ‘Starkers’ blank theme into a custom theme. Front page is working nicely:

    http://catherineandchloe.co.uk/

    The problem is with the other pages.

    http://catherineandchloe.co.uk/?page_id=7 Blog page – this looked horrendous without formatting so I put in a lot of the code from the 2010 theme on which Starkers was based.

    Problem 1 is horrible grey links that turn bright red on mouseover. Can’t find the code that would strip those colours out and make them the same as my other links.

    Problem 2 is it still looks a bit half-formatted.

    Problem 3 is that the rest of my pages come out like this: http://catherineandchloe.co.uk/?page_id=43- no matter what I type in the html box, it doesn’t show up on the page. I’ve tried putting the Loop in the page but that just produces blog posts complete with post-date etc, not usable page text.

    Also, pretty permalinks don’t work – I get ‘page not found’ when I try to use them.

    Help? This site needs to be done today.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Try using Firefox and the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work. And check that mod_rewrite is running on your server for pretty permalinks.

    Thread Starter lucky3

    (@lucky3)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks esmi – I can’t see mod-rewrite anywhere on my server or find any info online on how to get it – any ideas?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Try contacting your hosts.

    Thread Starter lucky3

    (@lucky3)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks, will do.

    I’ve fixed most of it now but still having trouble with the blog page. The top post (headed ‘Blog’) is static and when I make a new post, it only shows upas a link right at the bottom under ‘Recent posts’. I want to get rid of that static post and have my newest post there instead.

    Also, the pages for single posts (linked to from the blog) are ignoring my text formatting even though I’ve edited it into page.php.

    Any ideas?

    Thread Starter lucky3

    (@lucky3)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    http://catherineandchloe.co.uk/ is LIVE! Thanks all!

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