Beginner needs help with comments and archives page for pressrow

What’s the url to your site?

Peter

sortakindafamous.com

thank you for responding!!!

p.s. i think i figured out the comment thing – just need help with the archives

Since I don’t know the theme, I’m gonna make a guess here about the filename: in most of the cases I’ve seen, the navigation bar is in the file header.php. So that’ll be your starting point.

In that file there’s something like this:

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>
<a class="blog" href="https://sortakindafamous.com">blog</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="archives" href="https://sortakindafamous.com/archives/">archives</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="about" href="https://sortakindafamous.com/about/">about</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

If you want to get rid of archives, change this bit to:

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li>
<a class="blog" href="https://sortakindafamous.com">blog</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="about" href="https://sortakindafamous.com/about/">about</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

(the exact wording could differ, since I’m reading html, while the php may look a bit different).

I’ll look into the other problem in a jiffy.

Peter

ugh – did not figure out the comment thing

ok i’ll try that – thanks!

ahhhhh! that worked!!! thank you thank you!!!

any luck on the comments issue?

Ok

I figured out the comments issue. Here’s my issue now. I’ve created an “about” page, but I don’t know how to link it up to the “about” tab on the blog. Does that make sense? so when you click on the ‘about’ tab on the blog, the actual ‘about’ page that i created on my dashboard doesn’t show up…

Second, when people go to comment, it takes them to my “about” page and they are unable to comment.

What exactly do you mean here? If I click on ‘No Comments’ for the first post (My Cholesterol), it takes me to this url https://sortakindafamous.com/?p=79#respond, which is the article itself, yet it doesn’t jump to the input field.

I’m able however to put something in. I’m not seeing the about page at that point. Is it after they submit their comments?

Peter

https://sortakindafamous.com/?p=79#comments will actually take you to the correct spot in the post, but I’m not sure how to fix this.

Peter

I don’t exactly understand what permalinks are. So when I finished creating my “about” page on the dashboard, I went to “change permalinks” and put in a custom permalink of https://sortakindafamous.com/about/. This allowed me to be able to access the “about” page that I had created in my dashboard from the “about” tab on the blog. However, when I did this, the option to add comments anywhere on the blog went away. If you clicked on “no comments” it would just take you to the “about” page.

So I think I have the comments working (like you saw). But now I just need to figure out how to access the “about” page that I created on my dashboard to the “about” tab that is on my blog…

I don’t really know how else to explain it so i hope this makes sense!

Ah, now I know: comments-popup-link takes a fourth parameter, which should be ‘comments’ in your case (index.php).

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

thanks – but I totally messed up my comments thing because I tried to fix it without really knowing what I’m doing – can you take a look at what I did – you’ll see it when you go to the page…