joebeauchamp

Hey Tim, thanks! — looking at it now — not obvious to me (sorry). I thought that the “change permalink” at the top of editing a page would let me do that(a long time ago), but it seemed to just go into “choose how to automatically name pages” – which is not what I wanted — just wanted, for instance, to name THIS one page. Reading through “using permalinks”, I still don’t see how to do that. And the closest I came, I think was “this is discouraged, but you can use %postname%”…

So, let’s just pretend <ahem> that I’m real stupid and could you spell out how I would actually change a single page name? Say it is currently ?page=23 and I want it to be lessonlist.html. How would I do that?

I’m on linux, btw. thx! — Joe B.

I was looking for how to have “real” page names in wp and came across this thread. What plugin are you mentioning? Does it do what I am looking for? Have I missed something fundamental about WP because this seems like a useful thing for several reasons.

I want a name like lessonlist.html instead of ?page=205. It’s a whole lot easier to tell someone to go to the former. I’m trying to replace a current website with wp and this REALLY gets in the way, ya know? Also, I just ran into having to change flash “movies”. Current is something like “…/lessonlist.html#3” for a pointer in the flash file. I need to make that something like “…/?page=205#3”. Now, doesn’t that seem obtuse and just asking for trouble? (and I can’t just simply use this flash file which was built in 1999!!)

It just seems that there are several reasons for letting people name pages as fixed anchors, entry points, talking points, replacement pages/systems, etc. instead of being forced into some automatically generated page “name”. I’d like to be sure that “lessonlist.html” doesn’t change on me – and also, lessonlist means a whole lot more and is easier to remember than ?page=207 (or did he say 205…or..). OK, so I try not to be a supreme geek and make everything obtuse and hard to use, explain, etc…hmmm..

So, what is this plugin (I tried looking for it a couple of ways) and will it let me name individual pages? (Or am I missing something fundamental that already lets me name individual pages?)

thx! — Joe B.

What I keep running into, and am not sure if it is because I’m looking at things wrong, am old, or they really are this way, is that it should be a snap to set the limit on posts to an archive page – it isn’t. I set “showposts” or some such by looking at some forum posts (why? because the freakin documentation doesn’t tell me how this stuff works, so I can’t go it alone), and instead of doing so, now it starts at the current top post and goes from there instead of the those for the month (in the archive).

Doesn’t it seem reasonable that I should be able to set “limit=99” for the particular thing and not have it destroy every other parameter which was obviously set by wordpress to get there? Makes no sense to me.

Also, I see a bunch of messages here which I don’t see well addressed to simply change the look of the archive. To me, an archive should be… uh, structured. Month then subject then, if you want, content. I’m surprise that this is not the default.

So, I just tried the custom-post-limits with the result that it made no difference for my page limit on my archive page.

Why does this have to be such a big deal and so frustrating? Seems like a simple change – the number of posts on JUST the archive page.

So, I figure I simply must not understand the architecture of wordpress because simple things should not be so difficult, right?

Simply, I want when someone clicks on March, they get the list of subjects to then click on if they like them — not a barrage of content from everything in March. Well, I zapped things so that I could get everything except the limit per page. OK, simple, right? Just find the parameter and change it. Nope, just doing that and now it forgets what month I want. I’ll just look at the documentation about how to control archive output… oops.. what documentation..??

HA! I can’t win… So, if I’ve missed something simple, I’d love to hear why I’ve been such an idiot trying to solve something “simple”.

thanks to all… — Joe B.

in .htaccess, you want a rewrite working for you. There are quite a few examples like this because it is a common need. I was just looking today because I need to redirect to better integrate woodpress into my stable site. I hesitate to try to put the code in here — having trouble trying to do a simple direct right now. And, similarly, I was looking for something of the same. Currently having trouble with php doing it – picking php because I don’t know where the site will go and don’t want to introduce extra side thing that need to work right.

You have RewriteEngine On and usual put in the RewriteBase to lessen machine confusion, then for you, it is a simple RewriteCond .*/index.php?p=.*
followed by RewriteRule with the R flag for redirect. Anyway, a look at the examples should give you the proper syntax. I don’t think you’d need more than those 3 or 4 lines ..

All that swell stuff that was suggested starts with “make sure your modem is plugged in” type logic. I’ve been spending a week going through the same thing over and over — You can’t imagine how many times I’ve been pointed to “design your wordpress site” and it turns out to be “download a template”. Well, I just found this, but it is late so I only got to a few sentences — looks good — an honest to goodness article about conversion instead of a treatise on the english language, bill gates, the way of the world and maybe touch on conversion… Look at this one: http://www.jestro.com/web-design/convert-xhtml-css-to-wordpress/

I hope it answers a few questions for me — [Yeah, I know, header footer, sidebar and content…. That’s swell – for a fun little page. How about a **real** site being merged / converted? Yeah, I get it — header footer sidebar, content…]

HA!

I,too, have the same problem – have a professional editor that does a nice job of creating powerful websites – easy to change, to color, adding pages, completely flexible look. And, I wanted to have fresh content associated with it. So, I spent the last week studying both it and wordpress. It seems everyone thinks everyone else should change to “their” system. Yeah, swell. 20 HTML pages that I can instantly change and coordinate and they all don’t have to have the same header and footer like wordpress seems to require (not the focus of my looking, but it seems that all pages look the same in wordpress – just changing text).

Logically, I can try to put wordpress in an established site or try to take a multifaceted powerful site and make it <heaven help me> a template.. It looks bleak if both sides insist that I give up the other and convert everything. <sigh> Unfortunately, so far, I’ve seen good questions on this forum and <uh> missing answers..

I have taken my main page and put in php to make it hold story titles after reading someone’s write-up. I need to turn the html into php. That works, but what about all the references to index.htm and what about wordpress “home” not being the site home?

So, I’m still hunting. I would have thought that wordpress would be designed to fit into websites – I guess not — like everyone else, they are….. “different” and you “must” pledge loyalty to sir wordpress and forsake all others… I guess <sigh>….

I would have thought that SOMEONE would have put together something on how to merge wordpress into your site. [Sure, go tell verizon to dump their thousand of pages and make all have the same look because wordpress isn’t designed to work with other sites..??]

I’ll keep looking some, but I’ve spent enough time trying to learn wordpress to make this work that I could have supported the other code for the next 6 months in the time I’ve blown on wordpress. Ouch.. Oh, well…

— Joe B.