Paul Whitener Jr.
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Child Theme Post TemplatesWorks perfectly, thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Two Author ThemeSure. You’ll need to customize your index.php file to create the two columns. From there, you can use query_posts (with author parameters) to creating the “dueling” columns:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Author_Parameters
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Need background image…Set the “background-image” CSS declaration for body or your specific div:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Use WordPress for Press Releases onlyHi Helen. Since you already have a “static” site up and running and want to use WordPress for only a specific portion of your site, you could install WordPress into a subdirectory, such as:
http://yoursite.com/press-releases
Author accounts can be created once WordPress is installed. You can also control the “privacy” settings within the Dashboard (Settings) as well as requiring a password for specific posts while authoring. Several plugins are available to extended privacy functionality, including password-protecting your entire blog (your “press release” engine in this case).
As far as styling, to match your existing site you’ll need to create a custom theme. Here’s some documentation:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
If you’re familiar with HTML/CSS you should be fine, everything is well documented and there is ample help/how-tos available here and elsewhere online. You can link to your existing site’s CSS file from your WordPress theme, then ensure that your div ids/classes match. You’ll be surprised at how fast your WordPress build will shape up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t Remove Divider Line in Blog TitleCheck the settings in the Platinum SEO Pack plugin (which appears to be installed and modifying your page headers). That, or any other SEO plugins, may be looking to add some data (page-specific, keywords, etc) before your blog title (to the left of the | character). You should be able to control what’s added there or customize the title to not make use of the auto-generated title (which should remove the “|”).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: add image to authors page?I’ve used this plugin to add an author image:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/author-image/
This allows you to add the image in Dashboard and call to the image using
<?php the_author_image();?>in your template. Along with WordPress’s “built-in”<?php the_author();?>and<?php the_author_description();?>you can build a nice author page or include the author bio at the bottom of a post.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: May I ask your help with starting a Poll blog?I’ve had success using the WP-Polls plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls/
Once installed you can easily create multiple polls. It comes with widget support, so adding a poll to your sidebar is a breeze.
In order to have different polls on different category pages you’ll want to look to create multiple instances of your sidebar (to use widgets through the Dashboard) or add them by hand using custom category templates.
Note that the developer is no longer directly supporting the plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable image from linking on single post pageI’m using the new post_thumbnail feature as well and am not having any issues. I’ll need to see your site in order to diagnose further…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable image from linking on single post pageWhat’s the URL for the site in question?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deleted one of the admin accounts and lost pagesDo you have a backup of your database?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Disable image from linking on single post pageClick the “Edit” button on the image, then remove the URL (auto-populated by default) from the “Link URL”. This should prevent the image from linking from the single post view.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Extra Spaces at Top when Inserting Image in the WP EditorThis is occurring for me as well, WP 2.9.1. Without a caption the image and post appear correctly. Once I add a caption, the following gets inserted above my post:
<p><br class=”spacer_” /></p>
A search has revealed that translation plugins can cause this issue, I am not using any of those.
Any help?
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Publish button gone?I just did an automatic upgrade of WordPress (through Tools > Upgrade) and that fixed the issue. Previously, I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Executable code and Visual editing?I’m running the TinyMCE Advanced plugin already and am still having the issue. Thus far, everything I’ve tried has failed; I cannot get PHP code in the post to work once “visual” WYSIWYG editing has been made.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hide post date for single post?Nice, that worked perfectly. Thanks!