Several How-To Questions

jcarroll53
(@jcarroll53)

11 years, 11 months ago

Hello, my name is James Carroll and a buddy of mine and I are working on creating a website for our internet services. We offer Web Hosting, email, online storage, cloud hosting, and web design. Our website is almost complete and we’re going to start lining up clientele, but before we do so, we’ve got some issues on our website that we can figure out.

The first question is, is there a way to create a domain registration page for our website? If so, how can we? We tried around with plugins, but we’re just not comfortable with using widgets. We’d like the domain name look-up and registration on a page rather than a widget.

The second question is several of our pages were Contact/Support pages and had an email form plus a captcha. I just checked the website today and all of our contact pages are missing the email forms, and the option for the “Contact Page” in the page editor is missing from the drop down menu.

If anyone can help us out with these, it would be much appreciated!
Thanks!

James Carroll

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MickeyRoush
(@mickeyroush)

11 years, 11 months ago

The first question is, is there a way to create a domain registration page for our website? If so, how can we? We tried around with plugins, but we’re just not comfortable with using widgets. We’d like the domain name look-up and registration on a page rather than a widget.

I can’t recall their names, but there are plugins that allow you to put widgets within pages/posts.

The second question is several of our pages were Contact/Support pages and had an email form plus a captcha. I just checked the website today and all of our contact pages are missing the email forms, and the option for the “Contact Page” in the page editor is missing from the drop down menu.

What are you using for a contact form? Plugin? Custom code?

Thread Starter jcarroll53
(@jcarroll53)

11 years, 11 months ago

I can’t recall their names, but there are plugins that allow you to put widgets within pages/posts.

Ok, I’ll look more into it.

What are you using for a contact form? Plugin? Custom code?

It was one of the page template options, but now the only template options that show up are Default Template and Full Width Page. I used to have around 7 or 8 different page template options I could choose from, and they’re all gone.

Phil
(@owendevelopment)

11 years, 11 months ago

For the latter, have a look via ftp into your themes folder, as all page templates sit in there.

If they ARE in there but still not showing as an option on the page edit screen, switch to the default theme, then switch back and see if that resolves it.

If the contact page template is missing from the theme folder, then you know you need to add it back from a backup / theme zip.

Thread Starter jcarroll53
(@jcarroll53)

11 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Phil, I’ll check it out and make sure the themes are still in there. I’ll also try switching the template and I’ll let you know how it goes.

MickeyRoush
(@mickeyroush)

11 years, 11 months ago

Telling us what theme you’re using could help as well.

ndjworldnews
(@ndjworldnews)

11 years, 11 months ago

Here’s a solution to adding domain name registration to any page within your word press site:

1. use a theme with sidebars
2. assign one sidebar to domain name registration
3. use the ‘text’ module in that sidebar (be sure to install the PHP Text Widget to extend the capabilities of the standard text module).
4. insert all you domain name registration code into the text module and save it.
5. add this command anywhere in your template where you want the domain name registration to show up:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar.php’); ?>

(replace the value of sidebar.php with the actual sidebar you are using. For example, if you are using sidebar2 then the command would be <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar2.php’); ?>)

That will do what you ask for seamlessly.

Best of luck

Lode
http://www.nodeju.com

Thread Starter jcarroll53
(@jcarroll53)

11 years, 11 months ago

@mickeyroush: I am using the theme TheSource from Elegant Themes.

@ndjworldnews: Thank you very much, I will have to try that out.

@phil: I tried FTPing all the themes I have into the WP-Content/Themes directory on the server. They all were added successfully and I can see them in the Themes section in the WordPress Dashboard, but I still can’t select page templates other than Default Template & Full Width Page. I even tried changing themes to several different themes, and nothing.

peter achutha
(@peter-achutha)

11 years, 11 months ago

Have you tried Altahualpa theme (see my site as an example http://bachutha.com)