Dale Dietrich

Thanks all:

I guess I wasn’t clear enough.

– I DO NOT want that huge white bar down the left
– I do NOT want that huge image on the home page
– I DO want a small image across the top of every page

I use the word ‘page’ loosely above. I have determined that there is no way to use a WordPress ‘page’ anywhere to achieve this. So, I converted my whole site to use ‘posts’ instead of pages. And it works swimingly EXCEPT on the home page.

Take a look at the difference between how each of these are displayed. They are BOTH the identical ‘post’ – see the bracketed (new) at the end of the last paragraph. I just added that to the relevant ‘post’ to be sure.

https://www.daledietrich.com

vs

https://www.daledietrich.com/welcome/

Both of these SHOULD display identically because they are the same ‘post’ but they don’t. The second link above is how I would like my site to appear to anyone coming in on the first link – well, its close, I would like it to be left justified and take up the full screen but I’m not going to be that picky. If you click on the “Home’ menu item anywhere in my site it takes you to the 2nd link above.

I tried everything everyone has suggested and most of what was suggested got me this far. The thing is, I could have sworn at one point I achieved my ‘holy grail’ and then after a few tweeks I lost it and can’t remember how to get it back.

This would all be simpler if there was a way to wipe out the white space on the left and get rid of that huge image on WordPress ‘pages’ but there doesn’t seem to be a way. And it really sucks because I otherwise love this theme!

…Dale

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Dale Dietrich.

Also wouldn’t mind removing the inch of white space between the header and the start of text. In the old days I would go into the themes and edit this all myself but I now know (after weeks of playing wack-a-mole to remove malware from my sites) that therein lies dragons!

Well, thanks again.

Is there a list of these somewhere?

I’d LOVE one that allowed me to remove the gargantuan amount of white space on the left on PAGES (thus removing my need for the tweak baove)?

…Dale

Terrific! Thanks Pothi.

Well, thank you very much Stilman.

I experimented with this with my enthuisist blog https://www.daleisphere.com and it worked very well. I haven’t set up a blog yet on my business website. Just need to find time to do that and make the first post the same as my current welcome page I guess. I also love how if you do it this way you can have a full right hand column of widgets. I was willing to give up my prior widgets column for the elegance and mobile reponsiveness of Twenty-Seven but now I don’t have to. Super!!!!

The only other thing I’d like to do is get links to my social sites (linkedIn etc. elegantly somewhere on the top of my pages (as opposed to the bottom where I think the built in one goes). But I guess taht’s for another forum.

…Dale

Thanks Saurabh.

That doesn’t quite get me where I want to go. That approach removes all images across the top. I would still like an image across the top of all the pages just as you see on all the other pages that aren’t the home page. Put another way, I’d like to have it so that the images that appear on all the other pages on my site appear on the front home page. I want an image. I just don’t want it to take up the whole screen. I just want a 1.5 to 2″ tall banner across the top.

…Dale

Same with me – on iPhone anyway. It doesn’t affect my blog on the PC but I get a bit ziltch when I try to access my site on the iPhone with this plugin activated.

OK, this seems like some kind of a bug in the current RC1 that I should report somewhere. I’ll see if I can figure out where to report it.

Thanks Michael.

Thanks Michael. I did have a .maintenance file there. Removing it solved the problem.

I just upgraded my root blog at https://www.daledietrich.com and the exact same thing happened. There was a .maintenance file there too. Removing it similarly solved the problem.

I have two more blogs to go.

Any idea where these files come from. Did I do something wrong? Is this a hangover somehow from my prior 2.5 installations.

Thanks so much.

…Dale

I have the same problem.

I just installed 2.7 RC1 on one of my blogs and attempted the auto update for a nightly build.

I got the message:

‘WordPress upgraged successfully’

after all the other upgrading messages. But despite the apparent success, I still get this error message in yellow across the top of every dashboard page”

‘An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now’

I’ve attempted it seeral times now and keep getting the same result.

I’m self-hosted on an XP PC running apache/PHP etc. I’ve been running several WordPress blogs on this for years. The dashboard shows I’m running RC1-10041. I don’t know what build it was before I tried the upgrade.

My site is: https://www.daleisphere.com

Despite this, my site seems to be running just fine. Any way to get rid of the annoying yellow message if all is well?

…Dale

All of this is very entertaining. All I want is to remove that damn
within the widget php code. So I have gone-in and removed it from

/wp-includes/widgets.php

The template I use also has a searchform.php but clearly as per Otto42’s track ticket, that don’t work. So, I’ll have to make this change in all my blogs until resolved.

Argh. Why would the default be to add a hard-break in there?

…Dale

I don’t get this either. I have about 40 categorizes on my site. Every time I add an entry I have to hunt down the “Uncategorized” button and uncheck it. This is a real pain in the behind!!! I do NOT want to name it to any other particular default name because I’ll just have to hunt down that category and uncheck it 99% of the time.

Dang, this is a silly unchangeable default. This is the only thing about WordPress (so far) that bugs me – and it bugs me each and every time I post!!

My “solution” is to rename it “@@@Uncat” so it shows up on the top of my categories list so I’ll hopefully see it each time to uncheck it, but, inevitably on every 5th post or so I forget and have to clean it up when I notice it in the future. Argh!!

…Dale