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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: what username and password to use?They don’t have to be in Rockford, IL. They can be anywhere. My web design partner lives 5300 miles away in Europe, we’ve been doing business together sight unseen for four years and I just met him this past Spring. So really, location doesn’t matter OTHER than for timezone considerations.
Having a degree doesn’t mean squat as far as being able to see the forest over the trees. It can help, but sometimes it can be a hindrance too.
If you’ve installed and configured your own web site, then you should have more than a passing familiarity with PHPMyAdmin, how to create databases and users and assign users to those databases, how FTP works, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I cannot begin to count how many WP installs I’ve done. I can tell you that during that last upgrade rush, I upgraded 13 WP installations in one morning all without a hitch. I install and configure WP (and other scripts) routinely and I have never seen the kind of problems you describe, and as many degrees and as much education as you have, it is clear to me from your own responses that you do not have a clear grasp on how the installation process works.
For your own sanity, I highly recommend spending a few dollars and hiring a professional to install it for you. And since they are installing it on your remote servers, not your personal computer, there’s no need for them to be in the same city; they aren’t going to need to come to your house. They can be in Timbuktu for that matter and still get the job done. All they need are your login creditials and a fast internet connection.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Clickable Header Image. Logo As External Link.I use this in my sites, with the CSS calling the images for the banner, I put this in my header.php file:
<div id="banner" onclick="window.location.href='http://www.yourdomain.com/'" style="cursor: pointer;"></div>Of course change the division to whatever division class or id calls your header/banner graphic, and substitute your own domain name.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Want main page footer to be different to other page footersAre you talking to me or Michael? That code looks all wrong because at the bottom of what is ostensibly the footer.php code you have a call to the footer (
<?php wp_footer(); ?>), so it’s looping over and over.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error at admin page after upgrade installationBrad, you really should upgrade bradblog.com as Whoo suggested.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Editing WordPress to Match My WebsiteWordPress templates are obviously specific to WordPress. They contain PHP code that allows WordPress to properly display its pages, posts, sidebars and other contents. And they DO contain HTML and CSS as well.
Of course there are other sites that just offer CSS templates. They can be modified to work with WordPress.
Before rolling up your sleeves and diving in, I suggest you read some tutorials on theming just to get a handle on exactly what a WP theme consists of.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: SmartBoyDesigns.com – Brilliant CreationYou sound alot like my best friend and business partner who was given a domain name as a birthday present at the age of 16 and turned that into his country’s largest internet forum which now has over 800,000 users. But Whoo is right. Especially if you are holding yourself out as a web designer, you should try to make sure your site validates, or that any errors there are beyond your control. (Our web design site doesn’t validate either but that’s because some plugin authors spit out sloppy code…. A rant for another day.)
I am diving into Thesis as well and there’s a lot that can be done with it. I dislike those telltale top gray nav tabs. Get rid of those — and fix those validation nits — and you’re golden.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Just relaunched my photo site and portfolioNice. What are you using for the slider on the front page? I also really like the layout of the rest of the site (Tweets, Portfolio, etc.).
WARNING: Surfing this web site may cause massive loss of productivity! Really great stuff to be found there! 🙂
Can’t you just reupload the original theme function.php file and start from there?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Widgetizing Theme (Acting Up)When you go to Appearance and Widgets in your WP dashboard, are the places for you to put widgets? Looks like you should have two sidebars.
P.S. You don’t happen to be related to Perry Runyon, do you? Went to school with him (San Antonio, Texas) more years ago than I really wish to admit. I think that’s kind of an odd name. 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Want main page footer to be different to other page footersYou could create a template called frontpage.php that will be your main page. Make sure it has this code at the top:
<?php /* Template Name: Front */ ?>Then create another template called footerhome.php. Place your floating javascript code there.
Return to your frontpage.php template file. At the bottom, instead of this:
<?php get_footer(); ?>
use this:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/footerhome.php'); ?>The frontpage.php file will load the footerhome.php file that contains your video code. The other template files will load the standard footer.php file.
Then create a new Page that will contain your main page contents. Make sure that the Page Template selected is “Front Page Template”. It should appear in the dropdown after you’ve uploaded it to your theme’s directory.
Now, in the WP dashboard, under Settings, Reading, make sure that under Front Page Displays… you check Static Page, and that the newly created Page is selected as what WordPress will display on the front page.
HTH.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Editing WordPress to Match My WebsiteRSS feed is as close as you’re going to get to being notified when someone responds.
As far as making your blog look like your site, I don’t understand what you mean by Item 1 above. You can download a theme that is similar to your web site or you can take your existing site’s style and use it as a jumping off point to plop the WP guts into a theme you create based on your site design. It’s a matter of how comfortable you are working with CSS and HTML. There are many excellent tutorials online about theming for WordPress.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: How to install new WordPress into exsisting websiteBob, I think you need to worry about getting your blog installed (in the other thread) before worrying about how to link to something which, at this writing, doesn’t exist.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: what username and password to use?And I’d be willing to bet my left and right arms and legs that any halfway decent WordPress expert or web developer would be able to install WP for you in under five minutes.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: what username and password to use?Oh good grief, just pay someone already. You clearly have no inclination or ability to read, comprehend or follow simple instructions that hundreds, if not thousands, of WordPress users have been following, with a fair amount of success, for years now.
Of course if you hire someone to do this for you, be it Numeeja or anyone else, you’ll have to give them FTP access and cPanel access to your web hosting account. That’s the only way they can access your server to perform the install.
Installing WordPress is straightforward. In fact, and I normally NEVER advise this, but if you have a Fantastico icon in your cPanel dashboard, I highly suggest you use it to install WordPress with one or two mouseclicks. It sets up the database and user for you; it’s pretty brainless actually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change the way the_content is displayedYou might have to roll up your sleeves and dive into each plugin to see where it’s stashing its output.