david.bailey

Do you mean a fixed width version a liquid width – IE filling the entire width of the window?

This can normally be done using widgets. Look for “recent posts with excerpts” – you might have to do some code modification to get it to do exactly what you want it to do, but that should get you started.

Page templates themselves shouldn’t have text hardcoded into the template. You might want to try to figure out a better way to add content to a site other than hardcoding it so if you find that template, think about removing that text entirely and replace it with a function that allows you to edit values from an interface on the backend – like a widget or custom meta.

You’ll need to find the function where they register the theme’s admin menu setting and change the name there of the tab there.

These kinds of changes will need to be made in the style.css of your theme. You’d have to write an entry in the CSS file that specifies the size and color of those headers.

h3 {
    font-size: 16px;
    color: #FFFFFF
}

You can learn about css here:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/

It sounds like you’re removing the function without removing the call to the function. I would recommend not removing the function at all and just remove the call to the function. Do this by using the “remove_action” method – look for the “add_action” that is adding the code, copy that, paste it into your functions.php and replace “add_action” with “remove_action” – that should do it.

You should be able to add the images into the theme directory in your theme, and add the html into the right template. I’m not seeing it show up on all the pages, so it doesn’t look like header.php would be an appropriate place for it, but that should work. If it doesn’t, from there you should be able to fix it up with some basic styling.

So long as you have the domain properly configured to point to wordpress that shouldn’t be a problem. Its sounds as though the files aren’t owned by your ftp user. You might have access to the files on your FTP, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that WordPress does. At this point though, WordPress would usually ask for FTP information when trying to download or remove say a plugin. Is it giving any warning messages at all? Asking for FTP information?

No problem

I assumed the rest of the query you wrote was what you were going for. If you want all the categories I would remove the category specifier, or you should probably be able to add an array of values.

It sounds like you want to use WordPress MultiSite functionality:

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

Sites in a network all use the same theme.

Without knowing what kind of widget areas are available on the site, it sounds like you just want to put a slider widget in a sort of primary sidebar area.

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$featured5_bottom_left."&showposts=".$featured5_top_num."&post_type=page"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Try this.

You might need to write a custom theme template in order to do so –

One way you might do this is to create a template file: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

Inside this template run a loop using custom query to display only posts from administrator:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query

In the second column, do the same but substitute author for a different author or no author in particular.

That’s about as far detailed that I can get without writing it for you. Look through the codex and see some of the templates in the theme that you’re using for this project. Hope that helps.

How do you have the slider set to retrieve images? Are they attachments? Is it getting images from a custom post type of featured images on posts?