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Dear SwansonPhotos and Samfusion,

Thank you so much for getting back to me. As you have gathered I don’t really understand how WordPress works and I am indeed very confused about the difference between html and php.

How do you ‘just wrap something in PHP’?

My problem is that I want to de-activate the links for the page that you are on in my menu bar at the top,

see my url

https://test.michellehedberg.net

for example if you are on the ‘Biography’ page that link should be de-activated and I want to make a visual change (perhaps make the area round the word ‘biography’ grey) so that you know that you are on that page (basic menu stuff – all menus follow this pattern.

I know the url for where the page is

https://test.michellehedberg.net/?page_id=32

But I don’t know what the actual file is called and where it is situated, The menu that I have created is coded on the header.php file in the original Delicate folder (linking to the style sheet in my Delicate Child theme) it appears now that all my pages are displaying this menu but it must be possible to make changes for how the menu is displayed on the individual pages (otherwise what would be the point of making it in the first place?)

Is it possible to write some code to make the menu behave differently on each individual page and if yes what is this code and where do you write this code (on the header.php file in the original Delicate folder, on the style sheet in my Delicate Child them folder or on the actual page files themselves, wherever they are)?

I would be immensely grateful for some help on this as I am completely stuck now and can’t move on.

Thank you so much for your time and advice

Michelle

Yes but I can’t seem to find it – I have looked in both the Delicate and my Child Theme folders. I want to de-activate the links for the page that you are on in my menu bar at the top, for example if you are on the ‘Biography’ page that link should be de-activated and I want to make a visual change (perhaps make the area round the word ‘biography’ grey) so that you know that you are on that page.

I know the url for where the page is

https://test.michellehedberg.net/?page_id=32

But I don’t know what the actual file is called and where it is situated, Also the menu that I have created is coded on the header.php file in the original Delicate folder (linking to the style sheet in my Delicate Child theme) it appears now that all my pages are displaying this menu but it must be possible to make changes for how the menu is displayed on the individual pages (otherwise what would be the point of making it in the first place?)

Can you write some code to make the menu behave differently on each individual page and if yes what is this code and where do you write this code (on the header.php file in the original Delicate folder, on the style sheet in my Delicate Child them folder or on the actual page files themselves, wherever they are)?

I would be immensely grateful for some help on this as I am completely stuck now and can’t move on.

Thank you so much for your time and advice

Michelle

p.s

my home page is the header.php file in the original Delicate folder, do I perhaps resave this file as biography.php, contact.php etc and make the changes in those files? but I’m not sure then how all the structures will work as it appears the header. php page is connected to loads of other structures such as the hooks.php and the functions.php pages…

Yes to say the least I’m VERY confused.

In the html world that I’m used to all the files just lives in the same folder and are connected in an easy straight forward way…

Hi again,

I have now managed to add my pages and figured out the url for them, for example the link to my ‘biography’ page is

https://test.michellehedberg.net/?page_id=32

and if I put this in my code my links on my menu bar works so this is great.

The problem now is that I can’t find the actual ‘physical’ file when I go to my server. I want to open the page files in my text editor and make changes to the different pages (for example simple things like disable the link for ‘biography’ in the menubar when you are on that page. Do you have any idea how to access the actual file, where it might be saved?

Thanks

Michelle

Hi again,

Just to explain, I created a horizontal menu following these instructions

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_Horizontal_Menus

But the problem of

1. How to create new pages
2. Where to save them
and
3. How to a href them

remains

I can’t seem to find any information about this anywhere…

Sorry but I really don’t understand the instructions on how to go about this at all, I have no idea what to fill it in, It’s asking me to fill in the href url but I have no idea what to write and then it’s asking me to fill in a ‘label’, I don’t know what this is either…

Also I have finally managed to design a menu that I like with the correct padding, font, look etc and I have managed to place it exactly where I want it on the page. I assume if I create a menu by using the dashboard, it will go back to looking the way the menu initially looked in the Delicate theme and I don’t want that at all, I went to great lengths to change that – is there no way at all that I could use the menu that I have already created?

Once again thank you so much for your time

Michelle

This is the first time I’m working with WordPress so I’m not quite sure of the terminology they use, normally if you make a website you refer to the different ‘spaces’ the links will bring you to as pages (webpages) for example if a link says about you will create a html doc called about.html and put it inside your folder etc. but when I tried to create what they refer to as a ‘page’ in WordPress, it seemed like this was just a new post.

I’m making a website for someone and want it to have the look and feel of a normal website (not a blog). If you look on my url https://test.michellehedberg.net you will see the links on the menu bar above the image, I want when you click on them that you will come to a new ‘space’ i.e. webpage that might look completely different to any of the other pages (except of course the menu bar and the logo (which I will obviously replace).

I’m not sure to go about this, based on my experience using html I guess I will rename the header.php page about.php, contact.php etc but maybe this is completely wrong – the whole structure of wordpress seems very different to when you make a website using html and basically just put everything inside the same folder. The header.php page is linked to a hooks.php page a function.php page and loads more, also I have created a child theme of the theme header which links to certain ‘pages’/documents in the delicate folder but also has its own ‘pages in my delicate child folder. So I don’t really understand how to create my new ‘webpages’ and I don’t know where to put them (inside which folder) and how to link(a href) them to eachother…

As you know when making a child theme you mostly seem to overwrite the original files by putting ‘stuff’ in your style sheet so I don’t understand will I modify the original header.php file (which I am kind of treating like an index.html file but yet it isn’t) or… what do I do?

As you can see I’m totally confused and would be eternally grateful if someone could help me. I’ve seen websites created in wordpress so it obviously can be done BUT HOW???

Thank you for your time

Michelle

It works! Thank you so much for helping me out : )

Wow it worked! : )

I can’t tell you how grateful I am. I’m new to wordpress and would never have been able to work that out for myself. I’m a graphic designer and have some experience coding websites using html, css, divs and the 960 grid etc. but the whole structure of wordpress and the php language is so different it’s very hard to figure ‘seemingly basic things’ out sometime.

I have one more question, as you might have gathered I’m attempting to make a website for someone and I was wondering how do you create the different web pages that the links will link to? Do I just copy the header.php and rename it (for example about.php, biography.php etc) and then place it inside the Delicate Theme map (where the current header.php is situated or do I put the new ‘link pages’ inside the child theme – in either of these cases what would the a href link be…?

Thank you so much for your time and help

Michelle

Thank you very much,

it’s working now : )

Michelle

Hi again Govpatel,

This is a link to my (test) site so you can see what I mean. I wish to modify this theme according to my design

https://test.michellehedberg.net/

Dearest Govpatel,

I just came across this post and it is quite similar to my problem so perhaps you would be able to help?

I’m new to WordPress, I have been building websites using divs, 960 grids etc before so I am quite familiar to (basic) coding but… here in WordPress it seems to be very different and extremely complicated so I feel lost to say the least.

I have created a child theme (of the delicate theme) following the step by step instructions provided by WordPress. I am now struggling to make any changes. First of all I would like to remove the ‘search’ function on the top right corner but I can’t for my life figure out where in the code this is. Also even if I manage to find it – it will be in the parent directory (delicate theme) and surely I’m not allowed to remove it from there…

How do you remove things (like this function) from the child theme?

I would also like to make the header image bigger. At the moment it is set to width 970 and height 225 px but I want to change it to height 430 px.

I tried your solution above and created a function.php file that I uploaded to my child theme directory. This is what I wrote in the file

<?php
add_filter(‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’,’430′);
add_filter(‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’,’970′);
function my_header_height($size){
return 110;
}
function my_header_width($size){
return 350;
}

?>

This is what’s written in my Style Sheet

/*
Theme Name: Delicate Child
Description: Child theme for the delicate theme
Author: Michelle Hedberg
Template: delicate
*/

@import url(“../delicate/style.css”);

#site-title a {
color: #009900;
}

Unfortunately it still doesn’t work. When I click on the upload image button (under the theme/header links under the dashboard) it still crops my image to 225 px.

I would be immensely grateful if you could shed some light on this problem

Warm Regards

Michelle

Hi again Esmi,

How do you change the permission? (I have a mac) When I click on the ‘get info’ button it says that I have permission to Read & Write and that staff and everyone have permission to Read only. I can’t find anywhere where any numbers are mentioned…

Hi Esmi,

Thank you so much for your advice, I’ve been away for a week but I’m back in front of the computer again now ready to tackle the problem. I hope it works…

Michelle