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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How do you guys keep track of traffic?Well, I recommend you check with your host for what site analysis programs they use. Those are usually really extensive.
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/wp-shortstat is good but very condensed.
http://www.randypeterman.com/StatTraq/ is also very good.
As for letting people “see” who is logged in and all that, well, I’m sure there are Plugins for that, too.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Anybody clever enough to design a WYSIWYG template editor?I recommend that you create a Theme Sandbox. Create a test post with all the headings and styles you would normally use within your site. View the generated page in the Classic or Default Theme – or whatever Theme most closely resembled the end result you want.
Do a FILE > SAVE AS and save the web page to your site. Start with a single post view and then you can save the front page and other views to get their styling but it helps if you start with the single post view first.
Put the new html file in a folder along with the style sheet. Using a Text ONLY Editor, edit the new file’s head to direct the location of the style sheet to the style.css in that folder. Add images and other things you want in that folder or in a subfolder like
/images. Make sure all the links in the test file match the new folder and location.Then view the page in your browser and it should look great.
Using the Firefox browser, get their Web Developers Add-on extensions and use the Edit CSS feature to bring up a sidebar that allows editing of the style sheet AS YOU WATCH.
It won’t show you the background image, but it will show you just about everything else. Edit and make changes and tweak things around, and then copy the CSS to the style.css file and view the page again (total refresh) to see the new changes in place with the background image. Continue to tweak until you get it how you want.
Change the heading in the style.css to be the new name of the Theme you are working on. It doesn’t matter what it is called, just call it something different from the themes you already have installed.
When you are ready, upload the new style sheet to a COPY folder of the original Theme you started with and then select it through your Presentation Panel and check out your new Theme.
On the multipost views, you will have to tweak a thing or two, but that’s the easy part. You can then do the same thing with the other generated page views and you will have the theme you want.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to remove url text in header.There is a ton of information on customizing headers at Designing Headers. How you change it is based upon which Theme it is based upon and how it is structured, but that document will help.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Related links in templateSo you want to highlight the site you are writing about? Why not just add a DIV or heading tag to the link at the top of the post article?
You “could” try Using Custom Fields to create a key that would be changed on a per post basis and put that in the
index.phporsingle.phptemplate file (whichever is used to generate your single post view).There are also plugins (see that article) that will give you more control over custom fields.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: enabling sending referrersAnd for future reference, see Enable_Sending_Referrers.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Possible to add a second post field?I didn’t know there was a limit. I’ve surely passed it. Here is more information
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: “How to Create an Original Template” (wiki)Goodness, have you drug something out from under the carpet.
For CURRENT information on creating your own theme from scratch, and I don’t recommend totally from scratch, I’ll give you some good references and links.
But let’s explain why not totally from scratch.
WordPress uses Templates as building blocks to stack together to create your final page. You will need to understand how all the pieces come together and Stepping Into Templates will help you understand that process. It’s more than just CSS today.
Using Themes will introduce you to the concept of using Themes in WordPress and Theme Development and Designing Themes for Public Release will help you understand more how all the parts and pieces go together and what you have to keep in mind as you are working.
This is a LOT to know and the amount of stuff you need to know increases, so I and others here recommend that you begin with a Theme that “resembled” what you want in the end. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but the sidebar should be on the left or right as you want it, and the header should be there or not, and so on. Just a passing layout familiarity. Then rip it apart and work from there unless you are an expert in CSS, and so much of this is redundant information.
Everything from the old wiki has been moved into the WordPress Codex and totally updated. http://codex.wordpress.org is the place to hit for all the information you need.
Here are some other resources:
Site Architecture 1.5
Stepping Into Template Tags
Templates
WordPress Lessons
Blog Design and LayoutForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pages display nothingthere is no error, just:
<html><body></body></html>So either the errors are not displaying or there is something wrong with the install that stops the index.php from accessing the theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pages display nothingDid you select a Theme? In the Administration Panels, go to Presentation and select a Theme. Choose Classic or something other than Default. See if that works. If not, come back here and let us know.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Css QuestionWell, I recommend that you see the following documents that will help you figure this out. Everything is modified in the
style.cssfor the Theme you are using, but finding which CSS style matches which part is a challenge. Luckily, all the calendar information is usually together and you can change the information there.The links come in two main “flavors”: link and hover. You should see CSS for both of those that looks something like this:
a:link {color:blue.....}
a:hover {color:red....}Change the color there to what you want for which action. Here is more help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: INSTALLING THEME PROBLEMSFirst of all, calm down.
Second, check to make sure that the theme directory you are using is under the
/wp-content/themes/folder in its own folder. Make sure that the new theme you want is in that directory.Third, try a different theme, totally unrelated. Upload it to the
/wp-content/themes/ownfolderand then select it from the Presentation Panel and see if it works.Did you change anything in the index.php file that sits in the ROOT directory of your WordPress installation? DO NOT touch that. If you did, then please upgrade to 1.5.2 and make sure that you replace that file with the new version.
Slowly, slowly, if we get enough information from you, we can figure out what is wrong and you will have the theme of your choice running.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Creating a list of headlines on homepageOr you can find the specific information you need in the WordPress Codex at http://codex.wordpress.org
Specifically, try Creating a Static Front Page, Links Manager, Adding Asides, and Customizing Your Sidebar.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove Sidebar and comments from PagesFrom Pages or any web page (called “posts”) generated with WordPress?
To remove the comments from a single post, in the Write Post panel of the Administration Panels, uncheck the box that says “Comments” near the title.
To remove comments and sidebar from your entire site, well, that’s much more complicated. If you remove the instructions in the core template files (index.php, single.php, page.php, etc.), you will have an empty space in your Theme‘s design. That requires familiarity with CSS to redesign the theme. You can also look for a Theme that has no sidebar and just go that way.
If you want the sidebar removed from just one particular post, well, that requires a query with Conditional Tags that basically says “If post number 17, don’t show the sidebar” and every post on your site will pass through that query.
So a little more information would help.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: calendar, sidebar, and currently readingDepending upon the Theme you have chosen, many of them come with the calendar in the Theme just commented out. Open the
sidebar.phpand look to see if the code for the calendar is there and then remove the comment codes and it should show up.If not, then copy the calendar code from the Default Theme and paste it where you want it in the
sidebar.phptemplate file and then copy the styles from the Default Theme style.css and paste them into your Theme’s style.css. You can tweak it from there to match your theme.Currently reading information can be found at Using_Custom_Fields.
If there is a positioning problem with your sidebar, it is because there is 1) something in your sidebar that is pushing the width of the sidebar out too far to fix in the space provided like a link or image, 2) there is something in the main content section that is pushing the sidebar down that is too wide like an image. Isolate what it doing the pushing and shoving and either make it smaller or resize one of the parts and pieces.
Here are some links that will help you:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Site_Architecture_1.5
Customizing Your Sidebar
Stepping Into TemplatesForum: Plugins
In reply to: Simple site integrationhttp://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Will probably help with a lot of different options including plugins.