Digital Raindrops

Hi Carol,
You will need to create a page of posts, using page.php as a template page and adding in a random posts loop.

This page on my website has the same structure as you are looking for.

The code will be theme specific and without the structure would be hard to advise, if the theme a free downloadable theme post a link?

At least post the contents of these two files to http://pastebin.com and post the links!

index.php
page.php

HTH

David

The Picolight theme supports custom menus, so as t-p points out just go to Admin > Appearance > Menu

You will not be able to delete it there unless you have already created a custom menu.

Create a new menu on the right, add menu items like pages, categories, url’s and even single posts, to indent drag the menu items to the right, save the menu.

You will see a box on the right “Template Locations” just add your new menu to the location and save!

HTH

David

In the twenty eleven theme function.php there is a filter to show the home menu item, copy and use this filter and it will work, I have already changed the function name and tested the code.

I’m new to the code, and I saw code suggestions that should do this, and I tried pasting them into the functions file.

If you are going to change the theme it would be best to create a child theme and work with that.

Edit Start
I see you mention notepad, have a look at a syntax highlighted editor like Notepad++ and as you are windows check out InstantWP so you can work local, test before updating a production website.

To create a child theme for this theme, create a folder then, add a file style.css

/*
Theme Name: Parament Child
Description: Child theme for the parament theme
Author: Your name here
Template: parament
*/

@import url("../parament/style.css");

Then create a file functions.php file starting with a php tag

<?php
/**
 * Parament Child themes functions.php
 * Custom functions and over-rides go in here
*/

/* Show Home Link in Menu */
function my_page_menu_args( $args ) {
	$args['show_home'] = true;
	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'my_page_menu_args' );

Copy the screenshot.png from Parament to the child theme, make changes and activate!

Any latout files you want to change you will then copy the file from the parent to the child, lets say changing the footer credits, copy footer.php across and make the change in the child theme.

Back to the topic:
To show the home link in the functions.php add:

/* Show Home Link in Menu */
function my_page_menu_args( $args ) {
	$args['show_home'] = true;
	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'wp_page_menu_args', 'my_page_menu_args' );

HTH

David

I could see just 1500 themes overall in the theme directory.

Themes in the Themes Directory are checked to make sure the code meets WordPress standards, they must be licenced as GPL free to use alter and distribute.

For a designer adding a free theme is only really good for the link in the footer, which can drive traffic to their website, but most people downloading free themes want “Free”

That was the call I made with my theme, to use it as a way to give something back, a leaning curve and to get some traffic.

There are premium websites where a designer can upload a theme for a paid download.

There are a couple of WordPress theme generators like Artisteer, however with any software there is a big cost in development and keeping current and up with the latest API calls, deprecated functions and developments, as each new version is released.

There could be one or two version changes a year for paid software, and the existing customers would expect a free upgrade with the latest functions supported for at least two years.

If such sofware was viable as a business venture it would already be out there!

Regards

David

Unpack the zip file, with some commercial themes the actual theme.zip is nested a couple of levels down inside another folder with the zip, this might be where the themes author has added a PSD file, or other assets.

/my-theme-package/
–mytheme-psd
–/assets/
—/extras/
–/my-theme/
—my-theme.zip

HTH

David

There was a post a few weeks back with three loops and the issue was removing duplicates, maybe that code structure/solution might be of help help!

http://pastebin.com/rCWj69c2

Regards

David

Hi,
I adjusted my pastebin and tested with the plugin wp-pagenavi and it worked fine.
http://pastebin.com/RPcsx1iy

I then downloaded and activated wp-paginate changed the template code and that also worked fine, so both work with custom type pagination and your permalink structure,

Screenshot of pagination

Not sure what is going on, can you pastebin the whole page code!

David

Hi,
I have tested this with this testing twenty eleven child theme, I added the code below as a template page to display the custom post types of ‘information’ with pagination and it worked file.

The template page code: http://pastebin.com/T257N6qW

Note:
My URL shows as ?page_id=61&paged=2, so yours is missing &paged=

Changed my permalink structure /%category%/%postname%/ (/page/2/) and I do not get the same error as you!

Pagination works fine!

HTH

David