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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Frontpage Warning: these pages should not be the same!Just fyi, a front page is also known as a home page.
Yes it’s not like I don’t know that, it’s that it doesn’t really fit the image of all sites possible – and personally I don’t like it.
Esmi was referring to the ancient web design program Microsoft Frontpage so your interpretation of the suggestion is way off the mark.
What?! Who would get the idea I was using frontpage 😀 Sounds like an accusation to me, muhahah.
To do what you need, create your own page template which gives a short explanation first then runs the Loop to get your list of recent news and articles. Call it whatever you want.
Yes, I understand that. It’s just that if I do all that, wordpress is gonna end up being less useful than a bloggin plugin for Ruby on Rails. What I want to do is a site that users that can’t write HTML to save their lives can post articles, change the introduction text, etc. in my site. I like the idea of the dashboard but it’s kinda *not there* if I need to edit everything in the .php files etc. I’m up for some template building and that stuff but definately not for all the site updates to be done in the .php.
It’s weird that a bloggin platform that’s so widely used and .. so old, can’t allow me to select at every page, that which categories of posts it lists, and where it does so. While we’re at it it could let me decide if it lists the title as a link to the post, or the post itself. Why not add some AJAX to it as well and third option would be expandable title text – it’s a goddamn bloggin platform for gods sake! Too complicated options? I kinda doubt it.
Yay! Got it working! But I lost all the “content” text I put in the dashboard page editor.. 🙁
Well, ok.
Can I do something like
query_posts('category_name=cooking,knitting')?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Frontpage Warning: these pages should not be the same!What kind of question is that? Every page has a frontpage. Name one succesful internet site that wouldn’t show something when you enter it’s domain name to your browser. What you are suggesting would be that http://www.myurl.com would return nothing, but instead the user should know exactly what *subpage* use, like http://www.myurl.com/blog-posts/.
Now, in my frontpage I want the user to first have a short explanation about the contents of the site, then a list of recent news and articles, but I certainly don’t want it to be called “Home”. Because it’s nobodys goddamn home, alright? It’s just a frontpage. I’d propably give it the same name as the company / site / group it’s representing.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Move my site to the root levelAre you hosting your own site? Is it on linux? Are you using apache as web server? Theres tons of stuff that we need to know before we even have a clue what you’re talking about. Theres million different programs doing the same thing slightly different way…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to get social bookmarks next to HeaderIt’s in the header.php (depending on the theme, but I guess that’s the standard file for the header portion of the site.) I suggest using Chrome Inspector mode of something like that to locate the container element or the header, and inside that use something like
<div style=”float:right”>
<!– all the bookmarks and stuff here –>
</div>
the default dashboard doesn’t allow flexible editing of templates, so you’ll have to crank all the special spices inside the .php templates / partial templates.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: problem with floatingYour
<a><img></a>is inside a<p class="albums_image">which has a “float: left” in CSS, remove that and voilà, it’s all in order. You shouldn’t use<p>to style the image anyway, you should either use the<img>or the<a>. It just doesn’t make sense to use paragraph element to style an image ;).BTW, it’s located in style.css at line 323 according to my Chrome Inspector, in case you don’t know where to remove it from.
P.S. There are better forums for CSS toubles.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Table shift…I can see no moving of such object. The dropdown box that says All Categories by default is actually located at the right side of the site. (Well, with the searching glass icon right to it.)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Text Color…How unthoughtful of the plugin to do such. Can you try another plugin that would do the same thing without changing the color? It’s impossible to tell what lead to the change of color with the plugin install, but it will propably go away if you disable the plugin.
If you really don’t want to uninstall the plugin, but work around the problem, you should atleast tell us what theme are you using and what is the plugin that caused the problem (with links so we don’t have to use google.)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Tolong DunkNo offence but that’s funny. It’s almost like yar-yar binks and stuff..
I found out that by using Custom Menus I can add a “Category” page to be used as a menu, but that’s not really an option, since it’s formatted as archive and I can’t access it to give it any custom content other than the posts.
Besides, what if I wanted the page to show posts from categories “cooking” and “knitting” but have a separate page show posts from “car tuning” and “welding”?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hide page title?I think by using custom menu (Appearance > Menus) you can re-name any of the elements used to make your menu. (This way you could give the empty page a menu name.) Plus you get the extra benefit of using other stuff than “pages” as your menu items as well.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Check out STRENGTHPLAY.comomg! so you’re selling me myself? that’s nice 😀
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: What is The Best Way to Get Google Web Fonts Working?Ok this is a little bit off topic but..
flamenco, it’s not paying for someone who know what they’re doing but actually paying for someone enabling custom css for you – which is something very fundamental and basic in any internet site. Nobodys gonna do it for you, they just give you the tools to do it for yourself.I mean, I don’t need it, since I host my own WordPress site.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: What is The Best Way to Get Google Web Fonts Working?I used the header.php method, all tho it would make more sense to put in in the stylesheet for simplicity. I don’t see a reason why the placement should matter as I don’t believe it’s going to “unimport” anything in any case.
I just thought maybe WordPress was more reliable with it’s built-in feature, but…
I’m guessing the Blog Features thing is for wordpress.COM sites, not .ORG?
Yes, I think it comes with the Custom CSS thing that costs like 15 euros or something. Awful how people really pay for something like CSS ;D!