Moving from MT to WP

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I’d rather not give that out right now. ??
Not that it’s hard to find me but we seem to be diametrically opposed in ideologies and I’d rather not let that get in the way of things here. ??
Anyway, I checked out your site (really nice design, btw – very nice work) and what I’m talking about in my first question is something you’ve managed to do. The two blocks at the top right menu of your site, specifically the ones stating that you’re a WP addict and the one below it talking about your templates is the kind of thing I want to learn how to do to make my own blocks of text like that (with some links too). If you can tell me how you did that, that’s part one already solved. ??
Thanks for any help and, again, great site design. I really like it a lot. ??

For that sort of thing, have a look at my rather restrained effort to emulate that effect ??
https://www.mfr.f2s.com/1css/

Hehe that’s a good tutorial but what I really want to know is how you got the top two blocks in your regular site. The top two on the right hand column at the very top which display things other than lists.

I like to think that there are very few people on this planet that I am diametrically opposed to ideologically (whatever that might mean). And it has nothing to do with blogging anyway. And I am sorry to tell you that many of the people on this forum who try and assist with this type of thing scarcely pause to notice the content anyway. Heck – some folks even do blogs on knitting. I might choose not to assist someone – but you shouldn’t assume that I or any one here would. But without a url the support you may receive here will be less effective.

Well the top block *Root is a WP addict* etc is hardcoded into the index. The next box with the headlines uses descriptions (built into WP) and category styling using the relevant selector. If you had ferreted through the code you could have helped yourself.

Hrmm…So I can put different kinds of boxes just by making different categories listings?

Well you add link categories in the normal way. Then you add a selector to your CSS for each category that needs independent styling using the category id.
The syntax for my box for example in my CSS is #menu ul #atthe404 ul
Anything I style there is only styling that category. Enjoy.

Yeah, I got that part but the problem I have is, for example, let’s say I want to make a box with a bunch of buttons that link to other sites (graphic buttons), and a little mini-snippet of a review under each button. Or, say, put a box in the menu bar on the right with just general information but without any links, and maybe a thumbnail or two. How would I do it?

Well you would need to get WP installed, learn what it was capable of, and then learn a bit of html and CSS.

I got WP installed. I’ve been working on customizing CSS for fonts and the like (blockquote etc…) and I do know HTML. I just have no clue with PHP at all. I don’t know if it can parse HTML #includes or anything like that. I’ll work on it though. Thanks again for trying to help. ??

No php needed for your questions.

Honestly, you don’t need to know PHP to style a WordPress blog …. I think that’s propanganda put around by users of other blog systems ??

For other readers it might be convenient to point out that the php is like a thread woven through a standard (x)html page. As long as you do not disrupt the php code which only requires that you dont fiddle with it the index can be edited in the normal way., using basic html for adding images, text boxes whatever. CSS styling will do the rest. AND THAT IS IT.

Good grief man, you can talk about it forever. Let’s see it.