initial modifications to blog

7. Probably, there is/was a Home link hardcoded in the header.php of your theme.

8. I am not sure I understand this one. From the beginning my suggestion was: parent Pages on the top and their children Pages in the sidebar. Is this the same as what you are saying?

7. this is from my header.php file:

<ul id="mainlevel-nav">
<li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
<?php wswwpx_fold_page_list('depth=1&title_li=&exclude=143' ); ?></ul>

It appears that this is where the first “home” is hardcoded. Can I remove it, or might there be unwanted implications in doing so?

Also…how do I re-order the pages that appear as the result of fold_page_list call?

8. No, that’s not what I meant; let me try again. I envision eight categories (not Categories) of pages on my site. Four of these pages (home, about, contact and links) will just be monads; that is, they won’t have any sub-pages. I originally thought I’d run these across the top of the page.

The other four (articles, reviews, tests and photos) will contain lots of sub-pages. I originally thought I’d have these in a/the sidebar.

It looks like using the fold_page_list code will entail my reversing these (monads in the sidebar and parent pages across the top). I’m willing to do this if necessary, but I’d prefer not to. Maybe what I’m asking is whether I can use the fold_page_list code in the sidebar instead of the header.

I hope there’s a shred of clarity in this explanation. Thanks for your patience with me on this.

7. You need to learn to post code here… ??
Use the ` around it (it is located, ususally, on the top left of the keyboard where the ~ is)

Yes, probably, that’s what you need to remove.

8. Aha, now it is clear. Yes, you can use that technique anywhere, of course.
8a. If you call the Pages list twice, you will need to exclude the “monads”from the sidebar
8b. and exclude the other ones from the top menu

7. That’s what I did…maybe my mistake was using them every line, instead of just one at the beginning and one of the end.

8. I’m going to defer getting the sidebar working right for now, in favor of getting the top working right. When the time is good, I’ll re-implement the page fold stuff in the sidebar.

9. How do I get rid of the “Welcome!” text and the box that it’s in? I can’t find a reference to it in my header file, so I assume it’s buried somewhere else.

10. How does one go about excluding certiain pages from appearing across the top?

11. Is it possible to change the order in which page names appear across the top?

* polite bump *

9. When I downloaded that theme that was the very first thing that has been displayed: how to change this text ??
The “box” is part of the theme’s design. You will have to mess with the stylesheet for that.

10. Template_Tags/wp_list_pages – just see the parameters. (hint: exclude)

11. As #10. (hint: sort_column)

9. yeah, I think that I may need to reexamine some other themes. I don’t think I’m ready to tackle stylesheets yet. Plus I think I need two sidebars.

10 and 11. I’ll look at that link you referenced as soon as I upgrade wordpress. I’m reading the directions, but it’s not clear how doing this isn’t going to overwrite my template files, so I’m not ready to pull the trigger quite yet.

Thanks, moshu.

Perhaps this should be another thread, but…do you make your changes remotely, or download, change and upload again? I’m trying to figure out the most straightforward way to upgrade wordpress. Most of the FTP tools I’ve found seem rather cumbersome.

I always do everything on my computer.
The online theme editor doesn’t have an “UNDO” button!

So, in the upgrade instructions, it says:

NOTE The wp-content folder requires special handling, as do the plugins and themes folders. You must copy over the contents of these folders, not the entire folder. Copying the entire folder overwrites all your customizations and added content.

Does that include the sub-folders, too? It seems like kind of a hassle to have to traverse the directory structures and copy all the individual files…do I correctly understand that that is what has to be done?

During the upgrade I never touch the wp-content folder.
(sorry, didn’t notice you asked totally unrelated 2 questions in your post above – bad practice))

After the upgrade you can take care of new plugin versions, if needed, like new akismet.

I think I tanked the upgrade procedure. It might be because my old directory was called wp and the new one is called wordpress. Can you give me an idea on how to fix it?

I’ll try to contain posts to a single topic from now on!

Moshu –

As my other thread indicates, I’m going to just scratch this install, since I have so little work invested in it, and start over. Thanks for all the help…this was a learning experience.

I’ll mark this thread resolved.