BibleStudies

Thank you both. I’ll keep the permalinks as they are then.

I’m not putting dates in. What good is having a date in the URL when most pages will be updated frequently? There are 66 books in the Bible, and I only got done with One chapter in One book. That is why I wanted to address the permalink issue now instead of 10 books in, and a lot of internal links going to various pages.

I’m trying to think ahead, and am keeping in mind potential visitors. I’m trying to make a nice clean site with an easy navigation. Now that I’m past the permalink concern, I’m more worried about navigation and easy to read content for myself and others more than anything else at this point. I can only do this with WP without getting overwhelmed.

Right now, I’m saying heck with SEO. I have a Bible to study and a site to build. That has been and still is an adventure.

I got it to work after messing around with it for over an hour trying to figure out how to do it.

1) Set your pages to include.
2)Make sure show sub-pages and show hierarchy are not selected. The only thing I have selected is show drop down menu.
3)Then you will be able to select only the pages you want. Use the ctrl pages to select multiple pages.

That worked for me whether or not I had the parent page selected. I only wanted the sub-pages showing.

Thank you very much. That was way easier to deal with than coding.

Actually I have Paint Shop Pro 6.01, and taught myself how to edit images fairly well including fixing them. Photoshop probablly way out shines my version of Paint Shop Pro, but it still works. ??

I got a server not found error when I went to take a look at your site. I’m using the latest FireFox and Windows XP.

Since no one else seems to be stepping in to help you, I’ll try again. Sorry I have been confusing to you. The page Id is not a bug, and you are limited in the page widget.

“Flexi Pages Widget” plug in replaces the page widget. You will be able to include one page to your widget if you want to without having to exclude 50 others. It has an option on whether you want to include the home page or not. This widget has a lot of different options for excluding and including pages. https://srinig.com/wordpress/plugins/flexi-pages/ gives you a screenshot of the widget itself, and more details on the widget.

You said “I think I don’t want to do a full sidebar.” I took that to mean you didn’t want any sidebars. Maybe you only meant you didn’t want it extending too far down. If that is the case, then the widget above will allow you to have a short sidebar.

If you want any side bars, then you will need the plug in below.

Widgets on Pages https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/
This lets you put a widget directly on your page instead of automatically placing it in the side bar. No side bars needed.

Other than this, I hope someone else will be able to step in.

Not really sure how to solve. Here are some ideas.

The left hand side bar would be handled by the css and php in the style sheet and templates under appearance – editor in the dashboard. If you know html or css coding and tried to put some directly on your page, check the coding. An extra <div> can mess up your layout. Just because you are new to WP, doesn’t mean you are new to coding. That is why I mentioned it. I’m going to assume you didn’t mess with any of that.

The problem should lie with a plug in or script you entered.

I believe you are using the default theme twenty eleven. I know not all plug ins will work with all themes. I would think most if not all plug ins would work with the default theme, but maybe not.

Check the pagination plug in first. I haven’t used a pagination plug in, make sure you entered the information in correctly. It could be as simple as that. It could have had a bad install, or just not working with the theme or other script on the site. You might have to use a different plug in that basically does the same thing. That will hopefully solve the problem of not being able to go to the next page.

Who knows it could be interfering somehow with the left side bar also. If the pagination didn’t interfere with the sidebar, check the rest of your plug-ins also. At minimum deactivate them, and see if there is a difference. At maximum uninstall, check and then reinstall. I don’t think you would have to go that far.

The other thing to check is any scripts and java scripts you put on your products page. You could try taking a product page, removing the script, and seeing if it solves the problem. If not, you can replace the script, and check the next one.

Those are the simple things you can do. Other than that, it gets into coding.

Maybe someone else has some ideas.

Yes, this is a non-wordpress issue. I’m posting one last time just to answer the question.

I’m using Google AdWords: Keyword Tool

Google: Google Adwords Keyword Tool

I can get to your site. The home page looks good. You have two problems when I try to go view your products. I tried looking at necklaces, long necklaces, and bracelets. I’m assuming the problems will be happening with all the product pages.

The first problem is that the navigation that was on the left hand side of your page on the home page goes directly to the middle on the product pages. I’m thinking you still want that navigation on the left hand side, so people will automatically start seeing the product near the top instead of having to scroll down.

The second problem is that I don’t see any products when I go to the second page, third page, and etc. You already said you already have many more listed than what is being shown.

Hope that helps some.

I googled wordpress put widget on page not sidebar.

In the thread https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-widgets-anywhere-and-not-in-sidebar?replies=20 someone mentioned they created a widget called “Widgets on Pages” so you can place a widget on a page instead of the sidebar.

Here is the URl to Widgets on Pages https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/

Otherwise from what I have been reading you would have to work with the coding in order to put the widget on the page instead of the sidebar. Widgets were originally only meant to be put in the sidebar.

Hope this helps some.

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This seems like a bug, no?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15285654/Screen%20shot%202011-11-29%20at%2012.05.23%20PM.png

That looks right. You don’t have an edit button beside the view button. Means you can’t edit there. My home page looks like that also with no edit button. It sounds like it is not accepting blog as the page ID either.

I wish I knew how to help you further. Sorry I can’t.

Ok, your wanting to exclude the homepage on the page widget. Sorry, I thought you were trying to exclude a particular widget on your homepage.

Just found out from another source “If your front page isn’t a static WordPress Page, then you can’t control it via a Pages Widget.”

But

I found a plug in that might help called “Flexi Pages Widget”.
“Flexi Pages Widget is a highly configurable widget to list pages and sub-pages in WordPress sidebar. User friendly widget control comes with plenty of options. ‘Flexi Pages’ widget can be used as an alternative to the default WordPress ‘Pages’ widget.”

This might be what you are looking for.
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Read up on the permalinks, I’m not sure how they will affect your SEO. You might have a problem changing them if someone else put a link on their page back to your site. That link back wouldn’t work any longer. Did find out you can not change the permalink for the home page.

Widget context plugin adds itself to the widget box. It makes it easier to tell it which pages or blogs that widget will show up on.

Ummmm, hate to say this, but I went to go look at your page. It is still trying to connect, and the white page of death is sitting there staring at me. And then I get this:

Title I see in the tab: 500 internal server error

“Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache Server at https://www.dangledangle.com Port 80″

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Please don’t beat the messenger.

Swanson learning a lot from you. One point to add I learned from other sites that offer ratings on things. When initially looking at a rating, look to see how many people have rated the plug in. There is a major difference between a 5 star rating with only three people who rated it, and a 4 star with over a hundred people rating it.

Then do as swanson advises. I’m going to start doing the same.

Swason, the only reason I pointed that out is that by checking on how many people have rated a plug in may save time before deciding to do more work researching the plug in.

I just got back online. Yes, there is a plug in called “widget context”. What the plug in does is add an extra small box under each individual widget you added to the sidebar. From here you can show/hide using either by clicking on one of the eleven boxes such as front page, blog index, single post, single page, all archives, category archives, and etc. Next to it is a box where I can add individual pages. All I need to put in is the end part of the URL.

From what you said your page is the home page. In my widget context it has a special box for front page, which would also be the home page. Most plug ins I have seen for including/excluding widgets have a box for the front page. I don’t know how to exclude a widget without a plug in. I’m not sure if you can exclude the home page through page ID. I think that is why they have the box for that, and for blog index as well.

If that is not the case: Just because a page does not have a title does not mean it doesn’t have an ID. I did create a page without a title, and it did give me an ID using numbers.

I’m thinking your page ID for https://www/blog.com/blog/ should be blog. Don’t use any /’s. I would enter blog in my widget context plug in the box that says “or target by URL”.

Hope I didn’t loose you there.

If you want to know how to change the permalink which is basically dictates how your URL will look. Keep reading. I’m going to try to explain this step by step. If you still get lost, there are many good you tube videos on this.

To change the permalink settings.

After you log into wordpress admin, go to the dash board. Mine is located on the right hand side. Click on settings in your dashboard. Under settings there will be a link for permalinks. Click that link.

On that page it will give you several options on how you want your url to show. The default is https://www.url.com/?p=123. Instead of that, I like the option “custom structure”. Beside custom structure it has a box where you need to enter a code. The code to enter is /%postname%/
That will give you https://www.url.com/blog/

How to further edit your custom structure permalink/url.

Now say you don’t like https://www.blog.com/blog/ In your dashboard, click on pages. There you should see the page for https://www.blog.com/blog/. It will probablly show up as (no title) since you didn’t put a title in, which is fine. Go to that page and click edit to get to the page editor.

At the top it should say edit page.
Below that should be a box to enter your title, or change it.
Right below that, it should say permalink: https://blog.com/blog/
Right next to that should be an edit button and then the view page button.

Click the edit button next to the view page button, and you can change the last part of the URL /blog/. Instead of /blog/ say you could enter /petblogs/.

Please note: If you don’t see the permalink and edit button on your edit page, then you may need to change your permalink settings as I described above to custom structure. WP may only allow you to change the link in this way when using custom structure.

I hope that makes more sense.

I don’t know what gms is. Dave has a point. How many people really search for funny fail blog?

According Google Ad Word key finder only 480 people searched that term this month globally out of millions. Your site is listed as number 3 for that search term. Since hardly anyone is searching for that, you will hardly get any traffic.

Fail blog phrase gets 550,000 global monthly searches. It would be better to be ranked higher for this search phrase. In the first five pages I can’t find your site.

You also need to analyze where your traffic is coming from. Is it actually coming from google, fourms, or other places?

Keep learning SEO, and working on getting traffic. It is tough out there. Good luck.

Not entirely sure what is going on. Can you see them in the media library? If you can see them there and not in the posts or pages, then it may be a problem with the theme.

If you can’t see them in the media library, then maybe you have a problem uploading the images. Not sure what to do in that case.