velanche

Hi there!

Thanks for the answers; looks as it’ll help others. In the end, I ended up going for broke straight to my hosted site, and thankfully things held together nicely.

I’ll surely save the info given, as I may switch up the theme again at some stage.

Thanks again!
V.

Hey alchymyth:
Thanks a lot for that! I copied the code into functions.php within my child theme, then took out categories and swapped things around so that my name and the date would appear in order. So far, it works great.

The only thing I’m having trouble with now is to try and add text to make it like “Posted by <author> on <date>. I tried several variations of using the PHP echo command to add “Posted by ” and “on ” in, but the page ends up blank each time.

I tried the convention:

`<?php echo ‘text ‘ ; ?>’

That didn’t work for me.

What say you?
V.

Hey RD:
Thanks again; tried out your suggestion, and that seems to have done the trick! Now the archive paragraph is just about flush with the left side, so looking good!

Last question that I have, and it has to do with the custom CSS. I have already added some custom CSS items to the style.css file in the theme. If I read you correctly, you are suggesting to take all of my custom styles to Jetpack so that when the theme gets updated, the custom styles won’t be overwritten. Is that right?

Have a good one!
V.

Whoops! Needed to change this to resolved. 🙂

Hello Terry:
Thanks for the reply. Apologies for the delay; I had to sit this on the back burner, and now I plan on working on the site during the weekend and into next week.

I have already downloaded the entire site onto my computer, so I think your idea of working with it in MAMP is sound. I can set up MAMP, and I have set up WordPress before on it, but I never done it by taking a full live site, downloading it to my computer, and then making it work in MAMP. I’m only guessing, but I take it that I need to export the database from the hosted site via myPHPadmin, and then import it on the MAMP equivalent? I guess the disconnect for me is that it can’t be that simple to just have MAMP point to the local /wordpress folder and then expect the site run, yes?

It’s been a long time since I tinkered with WP, so I gather that I might also need to make a change in wp-config.php?

Finally, my biggest gripe about the current site’s functionality is that I’m not sure what it’ll take for me to get the theme area to work properly again. Tips on that would be good, too.

Thanks again! Look forward to your reply.

Velanche

I’ve had some quirks with the theme, anyway; I just took that theme before I knew about child themes. Time to make this a little project to clean up and set things as it should be.

If you’re game, I will work on it over the next few weeks and get back to you.

Thanks for the assist; will keep in touch.
V.

@swansonphotos – what is it that I’m to remove all of…? If it’s the widgets, I’m unable to edit them at all.

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