btomo

Further to Moshu’s W3 Schools link (and in addition to the codex docs), have a look at the following sandbox theme –

https://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/

The benefit to these minimalist type themes / skeleton structures when you are starting out in wordpress is they are very light on excess code – you shouldn’t have too much trouble seeing exactly what generates what on the final output. It has simple .css / .php files and the directory structure is fairly clean.

Don’t grab something like K2 or similar with lots of features for your first few attempts at hacking up a theme. Also, don’t skip the learning – know css / html and at least some PHP before trying to work templates (W3 schools have everything you need).

Re Drawer / directory not writable – search the help / codex for CHMOD – your directory structure isn’t allowing write permissions for the web process / etc.

Moshu: Exactly! That’s what I’m looking for – to have a frontpage that dishonours the more tags.

So the overall site has / will have –

i) A page utilised as the front page that queries for a single post and displays it in full, excluding content in the “News” category for the site. Previous to this help post, content was as described above but was cutting at <!–more–>.

ii) custom archive page which is segregated post listings per category that shows excerpts, which I’m doing via some hacking of a template from plaintxt.org.

I think I just confused the issue with bad nomenclature. Apologies!

Michael,

Cheers for the info, I’ll build a page / page template and use it as the front page, that should get me exactly what I’m looking for here. Much appreciated.

Tomo.

Very ironic:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/123114

If they find the root cause of this problem then I’m set. I have the feeling that if you don’t specify parms for the_content() it defaults to full output?

Mark,

Yeah, was thinking along those lines as well. Would probably be cleaner for what I have in mind. Creates a semi-compatibility issue though, if you are customizing the content to suit a specific configuration / theme / behaviour.

Re,

Tomo