I never used anything like that… but I used the Search box (for you) – http://wordpress.org/search/currently+reading?forums=1
moshu — thanks for the link. I downloaded the CG-Amazon files and unzipped them. But the Installation Instructions look intimidating.
I just want to be able to put images (of book covers) with a caption under them, in a sidebar. What’s the easiest way to do that?
You asked for a plugin. You got it.
You don’t want to use it. Then edit manually your sidebar.php every time you want to change the image.
What is so complicated?
If you’re saying it’s relatively uncomplicated to manually edit the sidebar.php (just adding or subtracting the name and location of the graphic files) that would be a satisfactory solution.
Assuming, that is, you can provide or direct me to the basic code I need to put in the sidebar.php
jj
If you know basic html – it is uncomplicated.
If you don’t know basic html and want to be the “webmaster” of your blog – you should learn it.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp > See the Links section.
moshu — so far it seem that I’m the second apprentice to the third assistant of the ‘webmaster’ of my blog.
Following directions at W3Schools.com I used the suggested html code in sidebar.php, and the alt text appears, but not the image.
I created the directory ‘sideimages’ and put the image there. Here’s the code I used:
<!– Left sidebar –>
<div class=”sidebar”>
<img src=”http://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/uploads/sideimages/donaflor.png” alt=”Dona Flor” width=”100″ height=”200″>
The image file donaflor.png is where it’s supposed to be (I checked it with my FTP program, which allows me to view it, and it’s OK).
Am I using the wrong protocol for the path? The FTP program shows my directory tree as: root/jayjerome.com/ etc… do I have to include that ‘root’ in the src?
What am I missing?
Don’t include the “root”.
But the URL for the image is wrong:
http://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/uploads/sideimages/donaflor.png
It should show the image but it doesn’t.
If the URL is correct, it shows the image like this:
http://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/themes/nerima-daikon-3c-01/images/jjheader-r.png
OK, thanks, I got the image to appear by moving it directly into the ‘uploads’ directory–
(any reason why the directory ‘sideimages’ I created wouldn’t work?)
