Peter Boosten

second that: I took a quick look at your site, but there are no easy instructions.

Peter

As far as I can see you’re still using the default style sheet, and yes, that will be overwritten.

http://cblpi.org/senseandsexualityblog/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

images, referred to in this stylesheet are relative to that stylesheet, therefore image paths like ‘images/whatever.jpg’ are in the default theme directory as well.

What you should do is create a complete copy of that default theme directory, and call it for instance st7134. Then make modifications in that directory. That’s never overwritten by an update.

Peter

url to your site?

Peter

Are you people using Gears?

Peter

which way you wanna go? permalinks, or no permalinks?

Let’s start with number 2, since that’s the easiest.

Go to your admin panel, and select ‘pages’ on your left hand side. Now hover over the about page you created (not click), and watch your status bar (of the browser). It should say something like:

http://sortakindafamous.com/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=10, where the number 10 can be different, however is crucial to what we’re trying to accomplish. Remember this number.

Now go to the header.php, and find the spot where you removed the ‘archives’ part, earlier in this thread.

Change the url for the about page, specifically where it says /about you change it into /?p=10, where you replace the 10 with the number you just remembered.

That should be about it.

Peter

comments_popup_link, I assume?

Peter

The problem with permalinks is, that they require something called mod_rewrite on your apache, and a .htaccess file in your webroot (if you enable permalinks, you’ll see the content for that .htaccess in your browser).

If your webserver isn’t configured to use mod_rewrite, then you can swiftly forget about permalinks 🙂

Without permalinks, you can access the about page by modifying the link to its ID, like /?p=24 (the number is just an example, you can find the correct page ID from the admin page, just by hovering the mouse over the ‘edit page’ link and watch carefully in your status bar.

Peter