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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: A Course In Miracles Blog – for reviewThe upper part of the page (header, tabs, search) is beautifull.
You need to do something to the readability of the body text. I did not like the font…
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Criticize my site!Nice header, but what is the purpose of that blog? It was completely uninteresting, because it talks about “nothing and everything”.
Choose a topic. It had better to be narrow and deep. Not wide and shallow.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Three sidebar questionsYou can get rid of the Meta with “widgets” if I remeber correctly. Go to the plugin settings and start moving blocks from/to the sidebar with the mouse.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Three sidebar questionsBlogroll? Have you gone to the “Link editor” and added some links?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Three sidebar questions“Also, is there any way I can put text in the sidebar? I want to put something there permanently.”
The widgets plugin allows you to include one or more text boxes. The text within those text boxes can be formatted, too. (no nice editor, but you can type html code there )
You will need a widget compliant theme, too (to a search at extend/themes)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I use WordPress to maintain my website?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I use WordPress to maintain my website?I have used WordPress for many hours.
Look at the source? WordPress is supposed to keep the data in a database. The only thing you will se is 1) php-scripts for the user interface functionality and page rendering, 2) plugin scripts with even more code, 3) themes with css
It is easy to maintain the web pages, but the options are very limited (and I like that). Look at the “pages” editor. It looks the same as the blog entry editor…
I guess you just go to the theme tool and click on one theme. Then the site uses that theme.
Remember, the “site” is a bunch of scripts that read data from the database and create pages on the fly using a css.
…and remember…
I have used WordPress for many hours.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I use WordPress to maintain my website?Yes. You can create static “pages” in addition to blog entries. Some themes create tabs on top of the page for these, while most other themes just have a “pages” list in the sidebar. The main opening page is the blog posts, though. There is some plugin(?) to change the initial page to be one of the static pages, too.
Have you looked at Joomla? It’s not terribly complicated either – and it doesn’t have so tight connection to blogging.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Guidance needed in choosing a publishing toolThank you 🙂
This all has been very very helpfull to a “confused newbie”. All these hints (“could be done”, using tables, localizations) were valuable and saved me a lot of time.
I understand that as a moderator you cannot say much because of the need to stay unpartial…
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Guidance needed in choosing a publishing toolI have to admit that I like WordPress more each hour. I tried Joomla too, but WordPress was the simplest and most elegant and it has wonderfull documentation.
First I was very sceptical and disappointed in WP, but then I found the widgets, and the event calendar 3. There seems to be many Gallery2 plugins, too. That’s interesting. One thing that I found very annoying though, was that I cannot insert even simple tables to the blog. Maybe that is possible to correct with TinyMCE (it has too much stuff, I just need *nice* tables)…
Internationalization is a bit lacking too. “Home”, for example, means mold in my language. And this Home, or mold, was hardcoded in the themes. Oh well, just open vi and do an ESC:s/Home/Etusivu/g, and problem gone… but these problems are all over the place. The next thing to get rid of is “Search” and many other fixed texts in wrong language. WordPress is a very good tool for the 500M dwellers of the anglosphere, but the rest of us (5000M) really need some translations.
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The choosing was greatly simplified when I noticed that b2evolution doesn’t support static pages, Coranto hasn’t been updated for a while, Joomla is MamboTheNextGeneration, Typo3 is targeted at “pro crowd”, Drupal does not allow many bloggers to write to the same blog (individual blogs…). Soholaunch had a lot of tools menus. Too many to my taste – or maybe the organization wasn’t to my taste… WordPress had better documentation, in my opinion, than Pivot (so I discarded Pivot).After all this I had only WordPress, Joomla, ocPortal, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, Xoops left… A manageable task.
WordPress just seemed to generate the most beautiful pages with the least work, so I installed it.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t select database…not able to select the “Username_DatabaseUserName” database…
What is this? My database is called “Username_DatabaseName” and it has a username “Username_DatabaseUserName”. Why is WordPress installation trying to use the username as the database name?
My domain now shows an error page that contains “can’t select database Username_DatabaseUserName”. It thus PUBLISHES two user names at once. What a great security feature! What next? My passwords?
WordPress installation was supposed to be easy…
ps. Existing database (empty in this case) –> trouble. Let WP install create a database –> success.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Guidance needed in choosing a publishing toolNice to learn that WP might do the job. I will give it a try then.
– There seems to be lots of plugins, but not a single plugin that limits login attempts to x/hr… and still, this basic security feature is nothing new – it is implemented already in Unix System V – and that’s OLD. I would be delighted to see such a thing on WP…
– What is the best WYSIWYG editor for WP? The built-in editor shows html code editor<br>
which is not very userfriendly.– Another thing: Is it so, that these image galleries need to be installed as separate applications, and that plugins exist only to integrate WP with these gallery apps? Is there nothing like an integral gallery module or something?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Guidance needed in choosing a publishing toolWell, this organization has thirty members and the budget is practically zero, so support calls are out of question… 40€ has been budgeted per year for a web hotell and a suitable web hotell has been found. We first considered typepad, but it was too expensive at 8€ / month.
So, I really need to choose one of these apps that can be installed for free, and after that the system need to be flexible but maintenace free…
So, does anybody know a site that discusses the usability of blog software and cms’es?