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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Getting the include page plugin to workTo follow up on this part:
>> The plugin appears to strip out the HTML tags, leaving everything one long paragraph.Brent, who created this plugin, was helpful. He explained that with this plugin, WP doesn’t insert the HTML because it does that only within the normal WP loop. His plugin calls the content outside of this loop, so you need to add the HTML yourself with it.
Thanks, Brent.
Lois
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Getting the include page plugin to work>> What is this non-blog template that you speak of?
Any template that isn’t a blog one. I want to be able to provide business sites that clients can make small changes to (e.g. pricing, product descriptions) without knowing HTML. The templates are custom or existing ones, and the content will be managed (I hope) via WP.
>> To use a function from a WP plugin, you have to call the function from a WP Page–the one that includes wp header and stuff.
Maybe without the WP header and stuff. I’d read through the Pages page, but it was so much information that I didn’t take it all in before. This time, I added the 5 lines to the top of the template and put the template in the folder of the theme I was using. I didn’t understand the drop-down option mentioned under “What Template is used to Display a Particular Page?” but I changed my template to page.php, and voila! my template now appears with the content. I used 3 Page includes on a 3-column page, and the page now has 3 columns of content that a client can modify.
Just one problem, though. The plugin appears to strip out the HTML tags, leaving everything one long paragraph. Someone mentioned this in a post at the plugin page, and the response was that maybe there was a tag mismatch of some sort. ?? I hardly have any WP tags, which might be the problem.
I’m going to try adding in the WP header and stuff. If anyone has any other ideas, I’m interested.
Thanks very much, alphaoide and moshu. We’re getting there. Once all the steps are clear to me, I’ll write them out so that other people can figure out this process more easily.
Lois
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Getting the include page plugin to workIsn’t it the include that looks for the Page and not the other way around?
There must be a way to include a Page via a regular PHP include if I knew where to call the file from. Or maybe not, since it’s in a database.
If the include page plugin isn’t the way to include Pages in non-blog templates, how is this done? Somewhere at this site it says that this whole site could be set up with WP 1.5 as a CMS. That’s what I’m trying to do with another site for a client.
Thanks for your help,
LoisForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: New page?Moshu, I wasn’t sure from the first post. It sounded to me like the OP wanted a home page that looked like the rest of the blog but had static content rather than blog entries, so I suggested one way to do that.
Our previous posts were posted 5 seconds apart, so I hadn’t seen your previous post anyway.
Lois
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: New page?See the “Page to Front” plugin at http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages (under “WordPress as a CMS”). Will that do what you’re trying to do? I got it to make a Page the home page of the blog site.
Lois
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Editing the Style, external and internal linksIn answer to your first question, here’s how I did it:
– Find the ID or class of whatever you want to modify in the source code.
– Open the style.css file for the template you’re using.
– Save a copy of the original style.css under a different name in case you want to go back to it.
– Change the ID or class of whatever you want to modify.
– Upload the file.
– Go to your blog and click on Refresh.Lois
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “no posts matched your criteria”That was it. Thanks very much.
To get it to work, I had to add “index.php” to the permalink and take out%category%. It didn’t like %year% either, but it works with /index.php/%post_id%. At least it works.
Thanks again,
LoisForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “no posts matched your criteria”I used a different browser and cleared the cookies, and the problem is still there. The blog is at http://summers.wordsweave.com/ . What happens for you if you click on the Comments link at the bottom of the page?
Thanks for your help,
LoisForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “no posts matched your criteria”Sorry, I thought I was entering that phrase in the search box, and I entered it as a subject line and posted it by mistake. 🙁
The search results weren’t relevant to my problem anyway, so here it is. I just installed a blog and I tried out several templates. With each template (including the default one), the “Comments” link at the bottom of the post (one post so far) gives me the error message “no posts matched your criteria.” One template gives a 404. There’s no way for people to post in response to a post, and the problem isn’t with a particular template. What’s missing?
Thanks for your help,
LoisForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: text differences between IE and NetscapeI don’t know if this’ll solve the problem, but in the body style in your style sheet, try replacing “font-size: 1em; ” with “font-size:100%;”. I’ve heard that em sizes for fonts can sometimes be buggy.
Lois
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 1.5 templates>> The full upgrade guide will be out very very soon. Promise !
I know you probably can’t give an exact date, but do you know if the alpha version of WP1.5 will be out in about…2 weeks? 2 months? I’m asking because I need to have a new website template ready in 4 weeks, and if there’s a good chance that I could use 1.5 with it, I’ll wait a couple of weeks or so. If 1.5 is much further down the road, I won’t wait.
Thanks,
LoisForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Static pages managed through WordPressThanks! No, I don’t remember the Pages page. That may be what I’m looking for, but first I have to download WP1.5 (I just downloaded 1.2.2 a couple of days ago). I’m completely new to blogging, so I don’t know if 1.5 is the best choice for me, but I came to blogging to be able to set up this kind of page, so I’ll try it.
Where do I download 1.5? My searches keep taking me in circles.
I found (I think) the Kubrick theme at http://binarybonsai.com/playground/ . I want to be able to add the Pages (the WP term) to another template, but maybe I can get ideas from that one, as you said.
Thanks,
Lois