Title: DickMo777's Replies | WordPress.org --- # DickMo777 [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Editing Meta tags changes archive copy but not main page or category copy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-meta-tags-changes-archive-copy-but-not-main-page-or-category-copy/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-meta-tags-changes-archive-copy-but-not-main-page-or-category-copy/#post-475978) * My face is red. I should have noticed that the instructions for the plug-in “ another_wordpress_meta_plugin” explains that the individual post-by-post meta tags don’t appear on the main page. So … never mind. Resolved. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [How can I get daily archives?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/#post-457934) * Yep, Moshu, I was over-complicating it. Since I have only one post so far and no archives, I tested with a couple of temporary short posts, and found that, sure enough, each is always on a separate page. * The reason my Archive Index page didn’t work was that I had followed the procedure for WP 1.5 for assigning a template. I used the procedure for WP 1.5+ and — magic!— it works. * Now I’m working on displaying the date as well as the title on the archive list, but I should be able to figure that out myself. * Thanks again. Resolved. * Dick * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [How can I get daily archives?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/#post-457886) * Thanks, moshu. I’m embarrassed that I spent hours trying to solve that problem and somehow missed such an easy solution. I assume I have now ensured only one post on the home page, but still need to do the same on archive pages. Specifying wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost’) on my new template for the achive index page only affects the index list, I assume, and doesn’t ensure that each archived post will be printed on a separate page. I still haven’t figured that one out. * Dick * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Adding pages to WP Template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-pages-to-wp-template/) * [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-pages-to-wp-template/page/2/#post-217544) * As a blog newbie who is trying hard to learn, I am sympathetic to the problems of understanding both Codex and sometimes even support writings. But, on the other hand, it is unreasonable to expect the volunteer support folks to start from scratch to provide all the necessary background information in response to each question. * May I suggest that someone write a set of sequential documents in Codex (or a separate text) to educate the newbie? Yes, there are such documents, but they don’t do the job and they don’t fit together as a single textbook. Terms are not always explained, and referring to the glossary is clumsy and doesn’t always answer the issues arising from the Codex document because they are written separately. * Topics of the “textbook” might include: * What is a style sheet, a template, a page, a post, etc. (Yes, with research you can find Codex info on each of these, but they don’t fit together nicely as a text.) * Where (as a URL, perhaps) can you find the various files, posts, parameters, templates, etc. that WP uses, and how can you access them? What is the structure of MySQL, and should I ever get into it directly? If so, how? * What’s the proper method for making changes of various kinds? When should you do it offline and upload it, or do it from within Admin? When do you need to make changes directly in html, and how? If you instead edit the displayed text in Admin/Manage/Page, how can you control things that don’t show up in that display?( Do I even know the right questions to ask?) * And much more. * Before publishing the text, several complete newbies should review it and mark everything they don’t understand. At that point I predict it will be mostly red ink. So start over again and get it reviewed again. And again. Until a total newbie can read the textbook and create a blog and know what he or she is doing besides just blindly following a cookbook recipe written in a strange language by fifty authors who don’t necessarily communicate with each other. * Can that be done without paid writers? I don’t know. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [How can I get daily archives?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-get-daily-archives/#post-457854) * Thanks, Kafkaesqui. But I’m still not there. * As you suggested, I have uploaded a modification to the original archives.php template, called archives_list.php, which replaces type=monthly with type=postbypost in the wp_get_archives statement, by following instructions in the Codex document Creating_Your_Own_Page_Template. I also created a new page, Archive Index, by following instructions in the Codex document Creating_an_Archive_Index. (Those instructions were for WP1.5, and maybe that’s a problem, but I’m using the default 1.5 theme, if that matters.) But the resulting Archive Index page shows nothing except the title of the page. Of course, I don’t yet have any archives, because I’ve just posted one post so far. I’m considering adding a couple of temporary short test posts to test it out. * I still haven’t figured out how to avoid having more than a single post on the home page as well as on each archive page. That’s important since each weekly essay will be about 2000 words, and putting several on a page would make the page very long. Presumably, I need to modify the parameters of a get_post or wp-get-post statement, but I can’t find one on any template or on the Index page. Where would it be? Or is my presumption wrong as to the approach? * Again, the URL is moralorigins.com. This is my first blog, and any help would be welcome. * Dick * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [jpg won’t display](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jpg-wont-display/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jpg-wont-display/#post-451409) * I didn’t realize that codex was written by voluteers, too. In that case, I withdraw my criticism and replace it with my appreciation for their efforts, as well as yours. Long live the volunteers of the world! * Dick * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [jpg won’t display](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jpg-wont-display/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jpg-wont-display/#post-451270) * Oops. I did neither. Using my file upload application (the only tool I knew of that would tell me where a file was), I found the folder where the picture had been placed by WordPress, and then inserted the src img … code into the html directly on the manage:page screen. I didn’t know about clicking the picture because I hadn’t found the codex “Using Image and File Attachments,” and there was no guidance anywhere else. I had studied both “Using Images” and “Wrapping Text Around Images,” but neither one, surprisingly, gave any useful information on either uploading images or inserting them onto a page. So I figured it out myself, and got it wrong. Your comment about clicking on the picture turned the light on for me, Handysolo. * Thank God you folks are available. Am I the only user who has found the codex instructions woefully lacking? How could anyone write an instrutional document on “Using Images” and not even mention how to place an image on a page? * Anyway, thanks very much for your help. It saved me from going to bed angry. * Dick * Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) In reply to: [Archive list by individual posting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-list-by-individual-posting/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-list-by-individual-posting/#post-450598) * Clean Archives looks good, so I downloaded it and uploaded it to my plugin set. But the ReadMe instructions said to insert a string where you want the archives to be displayed — your sidebar or a separate archive page. As is my usual confusion, I couldn’t figure out which file to put it in: sidebar, achive, or archive.php. * BUT: In looking into those files, I found that the Default WordPress 1.5 theme evidently provides for a daily listing in lieu of a monthly listing, and maybe all I have to do is select that daily listing. There is code including “elseif( is_day())” and “elseif (is_month())”, such as: *

Archive for

* (Unless that feature was added when I activated the plugin, and isn’t part of the Default.) * Could I somehow just change the option from monthly to daily? * Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) In reply to: [Simple footnote reference formatting (newbie)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-footnote-reference-formatting-newbie/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-footnote-reference-formatting-newbie/#post-450587) * OK. I have it, now. Moshu, I am still reluctant to dive into full footnote capability yet, but I probably will later. for now I’ll be happy with suitable formatting and no links. * vkarly, I finally realized that you evidently thought I was talking about formatting the footnotes themselves. I meant just the little numbers that appear in the text as references to footnotes. I want them reduced in font size and raised. I found reference to vertical-align:super, which raises the character, and also discovered that it was apparently the use of “div” that unfortunately set each number off as a separate paragraph, so I replaced it with “span.” Now it works. I am using: * .smallsuper { vertical-align: super; font-size: 70%; } * Thanks for leading me into the right file and the right research, vkaryl. And thanks, too, moshu, for a solution I will probably move to after I get my feet a little wetter. * Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) In reply to: [Simple footnote reference formatting (newbie)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-footnote-reference-formatting-newbie/) * Thread Starter [DickMo777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dickmo777/) * (@dickmo777) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-footnote-reference-formatting-newbie/#post-450319) * Thanks to both vkaryl and moshu. I had seen the thread cited by moshu earlier, but was frightened off because there are too many things I don’t know, like what file the code would go into, and where, and various terms i’m not familiar with. * Vkaryl, I tried your approach, after searching for quite a while to find the style.css file you referred to, and finding out how to change the file (via wp- admin:manage:files). But I must have done something wrong, because now the footnote reference numbers are set off as separate paragraphs, but their font style is unchanged. * A possible cause: I didn’t know where in the file to insert the code defining the style, so I chose to put it just above the “end of typology and color” line, or whatever it was called. It’s there, it uploaded, and I can see it. And the code surrounding the footnote reference numbers is just as you specified it, although it disappears almost immediately in the wp-admin:manage:posts view and is replaced by the separate paragraph placement. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)