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Yes, that was it. Thanks very much!

I usually work in RGB, But when you bring those PDFs into Photoshop, for some reason it defaults to CMYK (on my machine anyway).

Interesting that this is only a problem on ie and doesn’t seem to bother the other browsers.

It’s fixed now anyway.

I was initially working with the theme Chaoticsoul but as I kept changing more and more things and plan to use a different variation of this theme on another site as well, I figured it would be better (for my own sanity) to name the theme for the specific site (so I don’t get confused about which backup I’m going to restore from if needed).

I created a directory called JazzGuitarLessons and placed all the themes image folder, php and css there and created a new snapshot.

I created this new header in style.css

/*
Theme Name: JazzGuitarLessons
Theme URI: http://www.jazzguitarlessons.com/lessons
Description: Based on Bryan Veloso's Avalonstar remade into a website template.
Version: 1.0
Author: Rick Stone
Author URI: http://www.rickstone.com/
*

I then copied the file page.php to a new one called welcome.php, edited it in Notepad to add the new template name

<?php
/*
Template Name: Welcome
*/
?>

and remove the instructions to the the sidebar.

Then copied back to the directory wp-content/themes/JazzGuitarLessons (checked it a dozen times, it’s THERE)

According to what I’ve read, when I’ve selected the theme JazzGuitarLessons, it should now appear in the list of Templates on the right-hand side of my Edit Themes page in the dashboard. But it’s definitely NOT there.

I need to create individual page templates because I’d like to remove the sidebar from some pages, or use different versions of it on others. The goal is to make a CMS website with some blog aspects (don’t want this thing to look too “bloggy”).

Some folks reported a problem with this in WP 2.7 and said that selecting a different theme, and then changing back to the theme where you put the template fixed this for them. I tried this and it hasn’t worked.

Other stuff I’ve done (besides the usual modifying of templates and sytle sheet):

I decrypted the footer so that I could modify it (but yes, I credited the original theme and kept the author’s link in there, although I did remove a couple links to web hosting companies).

The only plugin I’ve experimented with was “User Access Manager” but I couldn’t find decent documentation on how it worked, so it’s been turned off for the last week.

I’m new to CSS & PHP, but did lots of dBASE programming in the 80s and quite a bit of HTML in the 90s (you can read that to mean “a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing :-)”) But I’m pretty good at reading code and instructions and figuring things out (and getting help when I’m stumped) and this one DOES have me stumped. I’ve searched this and other sites, and see that I’m not the only one who’s had this problem, but the proposed solution didn’t work.

This can’t be that uncommon a thing to want to do. Anybody have an idea what’s going wrong here?

Oh, and for the next person who has to deal w. this:

Here’s what went in the header.php

<div id="pagelist">
<div id="page-list">
   <ul>
   <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li='); ?>
   </ul>
</div>
</div>

And this went in the CSS:

/* pagelist menu bar */
#pagelist {
	padding:0px 0px 0 0px;
	font-size:12px;
        font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;
	}

#pagelist ul li {
	display:inline;
	border-right:1px solid #FFFFFF;
	margin:0 5px 0 0;
	padding:0 5px 0 0;
	}

#pagelist ul li a {
	color:#999;
	}

#pagelist ul li a:hover { background: #363430;
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#bd934f;
	}

#pagelist ul li.current_page_item a {
	color:#bd934f;
	font-weight:bold;
	}

/* pagelist menu bar */

Thanks,

Now I see the “Order” attribute down there (don’t know how I missed it, or why it didn’t come up when I tried searching on “page order”).

So I’m using the wp_list_pages tag to create a simple menu. Do I use the parameter sort_column? And whats the name of the value for the order field?

Thanks again for all the help.

Thanks,

I’ve had hardcoded links pages on my sites in the past, and after a while, they become a nightmare to maintain (sometimes I’ve had hundreds links). Isn’t there a way to use the “category” tag to filter what links will show up on a given page in the get_links_list? So I could then use a category like “Music Resources” to filter what would appear on the page, and then create sub-categories like “Theory” “Ear-Training” “Transcriptions” etc.?

<h2>Links:</h2>
<ul>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
</ul>