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  • There are a few ways to do this. Adam’s suggestion would certain work, but I would probably design the home page with WordPress and just insert The Loop (the blog contents) wherever you want it, be it a small box on the side of the page, or the very bottom of your page, or anywhere else. I’m not really sure why you wouldn’t want the home page to be WordPress, since that’s what you’re chiefly using, right? You can certainly limit the home page to show only 1 post, as well as limit the amount of characters shown. Check out the_excerpt for more info on customizing your blog in this way.

    I checked your page source – it doesn’t look like you have the <title> tag on your page. You’ll want to add this right after your <head> tag in the header.php file of your template:
    <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

    You can actually add it anywhere between <head> and </head> but it’s easier to keep track of when it’s right after <head>.

    @ firstsource – Turning it off won’t mess up anything you’ve already done. ??

    @ moshu – I was referring to firstsource’s question, not dansg’s reply. ??

    If you have the WYSIWYG editor on, turn it off and try again. I find that the WYSIWYG editor often screws up well-intentioned code.

    Sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong, but here are some ideas. ??

    Have you tried a different browser, clearing cache & cookies, etc? Have you tried using the same password that you use with your regular (working) username with the new users, just to see if that works? Do you have special characters in your username and/or password? If so, try leaving ’em out.

    The <img> tag will only work for images. You’ll either need to use <embed> tags to embed your video, or use a plugin to do the embedding for you (which is a lot easier). Try wordTube by Alex Rabe. You can have the video clip anywhere on your site, as long as you know where it is – that’s the most important thing.

    Check out this page for more about how WP handles dates and times, and this page for a list of all the formatting options you have available in regards to date and time. Remember that you’ll probably want to change the date and time format for index.php (Main Index Template), single.php (Single Post), and page.php (Page Template), and possibly others depending on your theme.

    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

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    Excellent – thanks Otto! It seems much easier than I anticipated. I’ll post back if I run into any issues. Thanks again. ??

    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    Bad choice of words – I should clarify – I don’t want to actually “merge” the widgets sidebar and UTW; rather, I just want to use if(function_exists to say, “If UTW is installed then use it; otherwise, just display the regular WP categories.” I only mentioned the sidebar code above because that’s the only time I’ve seen if(function_exists in WP. Sorry about the confusion. ??

    From my example
    UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedtagcloud","","")
    what is the proper function in this case? Is it UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical or is it something else altogether?

    Aside from knowing that if(function_exists is used for the widget sidebars, I know practically nothing about it, so any and all help is appreciated. My ultimate goal is to use if(function_exists for other popular plugins as well, just to make my theme more out-of-the-box friendly.

    This might be less important for a newspaper/magazine site which uses set categories, but I think designing your theme with Ultimate Tag Warrior would be a good thing. Other plugins that I think are cool but aren’t always easy to implement well are Gravatars and something for image galleries.

    Like Bryan said, colors aren’t too important since they’re easily customizable, but 3 columns (or even 4) would be preferred. ??

    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    vkaryl, thanks for your tip! Network Redux looks awesome. I contacted them about their migration service, which should help me out a lot. The only thing is their price – $7.95/mth is decent, but it’ll only let me host 5 domains – I should have 6 or 7 in about a month or two, so I’d have to go with their second hosting plan which is $14.95/mth for 10 domains. That’s a bit pricey when compared to Dreamhost’s deal – $9.95/mth for unlimited domains and more storage and bandwidth than I could ever possibly need. Dreamhost doesn’t offer migration service, though… suggestions?

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Theme Editor Issue
    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    There was a conflict with the Post Tools plugin.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Theme Editor Issue
    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    Anybody?

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: UTW Tags Not Pulling Tags
    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    Thanks for your replies, Otto. I worked with Nathan Dove on a workaround for that (but, apparently, the header still gets 404’d even though the content is correct): https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/65370

    What’s weird is that it was working fine until just the last few days.

    I’m willing to change my permalinks at this point, so how can I fix it? What exactly is it that my permalinks need but don’t have?

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: UTW Tags Not Pulling Tags
    Thread Starter deanhatescoffee

    (@deanhatescoffee)

    My permalinks are set to /%category%/%postname%/ – at least, that’s what it shows in my backend…

    I realize there’s an issue with just /%postname%/ which is why I know not to use that structure. ??

    Where are you seeing that my permalinks are set to /%postname%/? How can I fix it? As far as I can tell, they’re set up the way I described above – see https://deanish.com/posts/apology-accepted-a-spam-story/

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