norimuster

Okay, it looks like the “Leave a Message” feature is working. Thank you!

Only thing left to resolve is where the Pages link to. My site needs three links on the front page – About, Library, and Museum. Everything at Steamboats.com can be sorted into those three categories. “About” is one html file; “Library” is 127 html files; “Museum” is 215 html pages.

I do not want these to be WordPress.

re. http://steamboats.com/wordpress/about/index.html
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/museum/index.html
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/library/index.html

Don’t do that. DELETE those folders and files. You will break WordPress.

The folders and files DO NOT exist. That’s okay. WordPress handles it!

The reason I set these up is that I could not rewrite the whole permalink. It only let me revise the final word of the link. So I set up folders, created folders in the FTP, then redirected to my old site.

Is there somewhere I could edit the permalinks and sent people directly to the old site? The front page is the only page where I want blogging. The rest of the site contains reference files and collections that I set up and do not change, no comments, no blogging.

Hi Ipstenu – here’s what I have done as far as changing any code.

Set up WordPress, chose theme, set up Pages (Home, About, Museum, Library). Then set Permalinks (within Pages edit/quick edit) as follows:

http://steamboats.com/wordpress/about
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/museum
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/library

Then, in the FTP, I set up folders within the WordPress folder as follows:

http://steamboats.com/wordpress/about/index.html
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/museum/index.html
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/library/index.html

Each index.html contains redirect code, directing people to older parts of the site. Before adding WordPress, Steamboats.com was already several hundred pages long.

There is little other code that I have changed. I added some Widgets and Plug-ins, few of which are fully functioning.

In that WordPress options page you sent me (Settings, Permalinks), it gave me these options:
Common settings

Default
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/?p=123

Day and name
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/2010/11/09/sample-post/

Month and name
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/2010/11/sample-post/

Numeric
http://steamboats.com/wordpress/archives/123

Custom Structure [I filled in: /about]

Maybe I should choose one of the above, not custom.

I write all the code for the site. Nobody else builds it, but people send me photos and things to post. I got WordPress to simplify the posting process.

Since I keep a log of all the postings, I want to be able to make back ups of anything that goes on the site through WordPress.

Any help would be appreciated. Here is my blog archive going back to 1998: http://steamboats.com/research/archive.html

– Nori

not “reply,” but “Leave a Comment” link is broken

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