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I made my website with an attempt at making it look not like a blog.

https://theinvestorsjournal.com/

The site looks great. I think the green sidebar headers look a little dull, and a good image sidebar header would look nicer.

But overall, nice site.

My honest opinion: for a business blog, it doesn’t look very professional. It looks too much like some random guy’s blog. When I think of a professional business site, I think white background, traditional text and link colors, etc.

I’d go with a different color scheme (although I like the orange), and clean up the layout some. Maybe some solid borders to seperate the navigation sidebar from the post content.

If anything, check out other business blogs and consider how their sites look like.

Ah okay, Thanks! I appreciate it.

The worst part is he doesn’t have any contact information on his site at all. So I can’t even email him and ask how he does it.

Hm.. I can’t seem to find any plugin that relates to what I’m describing, in his plugin directory. Perhaps he’s formatting it manually? Seems like a stretch though.

There are several ways you could do it, but I think the simplest way is to go into your theme editor, open the header file, look for the area where your display page links is at, then right after that code shows up, add in a regular html link to your category page. It should blend in perfectly with your page links unless there are theme issues.

If this doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll explain how to do it the hard way.

In regards to question #2

Use ‘Front Page Excluded Categories’ plugin

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/front-page-excluded-categories/

Any post you don’t want to have show up in the front page, put it in a specific category (or sub-category) that you choose to exclude from the front page.

When you say “change”, do you mean makes posts, edit your blog settings, etc? If so, your blog has an admin page which you can log into.

It is located in the directory of your blog. For example, my website is https://www.theinvestorsjournal.com. The blog directory is located in the main root of the site. So to login, I would type:

https://www.theinvestorsjournal.com/wp-login.php

Although there should be a link in your default theme that says “Login”. You can use that too.

Since you use yahoo, I’m assuming you created a directory specifically for your blog. If so, you would access your login page with this url:

https://www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-login.php

I just changed the color scheme to green. Let me know what you think.

I think I’ll just stick to the default permalink structure. It’s going to be a mission to figure this out.

Thanks for all your help though.

This was found off Yahoo’s small business home directory, listed under .htaccess

“Yahoo! does not currently allow you to upload .htaccess files to your account. For other customization options, we recommend the Custom Error Pages and password-protection features available in your Web Hosting Control Panel. ”

Why is this thread acting weird? One of my posts is always missing..

It mentions .htaccess in the source.. so perhaps I do have an .htaccess file? How can I find it then? It’s not showing up in the file manager or the ftp program.

Hmm.. check this out. This is the source for the Customizble plugin by yahoo

function update_permalink_file() {
  if (isset($_POST['permalink_structure']) ) {
    if(empty($_POST['permalink_structure']) ) {
      unlink(get_home_path() . '.plink');
    } else {
      touch(get_home_path() . '.plink');
    }
  }

  if(strcmp($_GET['deactivate'],"true")==0){
      unlink(get_home_path() . '.plink');
  } else if(strcmp($_GET['activate'],"true")==0){
      touch(get_home_path() . '.plink');
  }
<strong>  unlink(get_home_path() . '.htaccess');</strong>}

// Now we set that function up to execute when the admin_footer action is called
add_filter('mod_rewrite_rules', 'update_permalink_file');
add_action('mod_rewrite_rules', 'update_permalink_file');
?>