• Hi, I’m the new rookie in WordPress, but not to WEB design.
    And I do not have a clue what I’m doing, so need HELP.
    Being used to Dreamweaver and writing it all in html. WordPress is a learning curve.
    My problem. When I save the main index file, it saves in PHP format.
    and nothing appears on the home page.
    http://www.ultimateslotcar.com/
    Am I missing something?
    Have not done a lot of web design in the past 3 to 4 years. just updating sites. But I have started a new project, everything I have is OLD, so thought. WOrdPress. give it a go.
    So, what am I doing wrong?

    Thanks for reading.
    Andy

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  • Is your site’s front page a static page or a list of recent Posts? Have you reviewed Theme Development?

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Static. TD, No, Ill check it out. Thanks

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    I’m in Customize your site. Clicking on Save generates the PHP file.
    All I want to do at this stage, is get a working front page for my site. Do I need to go with PHP or can I set up a html page?

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Just noticed something. When clicking on Theams, I get a Blank white screen.
    Any ideas Why?

    Hey first of all you need to be pretty good in HTML and CSS then go to WordPress coding. It’s not that easy not that hard but you’ll need to know HTML + CSS before you jump into WP coding.

    I’m in Customize your site. Clicking on Save generates the PHP file.

    Sorry? That’s not part of WordPress core. What theme and/or plugins are you using?

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    In The Dashboard. Big Blue button, Customize your site. I get the left hand menu. The right side is just a blank white scree.

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Sorry, Std. Plugins. Std. Themes

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Freaky1. Not that fused about coding at pres. Just need to solve a a Home page problem. Server is Linex with Fasthost. normal home page would be index.html or index.htm. WP sets it as index.php

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    My .htaccess file reads

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    
    # END WordPress

    My index.php reads

    <?php
    /**
     * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
     * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
     *
     * @package WordPress
     */
    
    /**
     * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
    
    /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
    require('./wp-blog-header.php');

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    Theres something wrong here???

    Site url?

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Are you using any caching plugins? What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?

    Thread Starter ultimateslotcar

    (@ultimateslotcar)

    Cashing plugins, Not to my knowledge. Theme, no yet, Just a page with letters on. Did try the std theme, but it never came up as a page. Theme came with the package of WP 3.5
    I have a front page at pres. but just put one banner on working with a very old copy of Dreamweaver MX. Very baffled by WP???

    Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. But been away from my system most of the day.
    Andy

    I think Freaky1 might see the deal here…

    Hey first of all you need to be pretty good in HTML and CSS then go to WordPress coding. It’s not that easy not that hard but you’ll need to know HTML + CSS before you jump into WP coding.

    …and I say that as a respectful rookie who realizes you know for more than I do. If I am seeing clearly here, what you are trying might be something like making a Windows app run inside Debian. It can be done, of course, and even is, but with WordPress it would be far easier to begin with a WordPress Child Theme and then go from there.

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