fleetvanriper

Thanks for the advice. The site I’m working on now is my friend’s and is finished enough for now, though in separate sections for the Kompozer pages and the WordPress Blog pages. I could spend time learning wordpress with a separate site. The only immediate problem is that I’d first have to come up with a reason and purpose for a site. If I can do that I see a definite advantage in fiddling with a separate site before risking messing up my friend Alicia’s site.

The answer to my questions was definitely using the Weaver II theme which which is very flexible. I expect there are other answers that would work. The site is aliciaczechoswki.com. I’m still working on it and the word press pages (the extempore menu button) are not ready but I linked it so someone from the Weaver forum could look at it, so my tailored header image and the copy of the site menu I put above the header can be seen. I was able to link that menu to my other pages

this series of messages seems kind of useless as help for others But I’m not sure how to get rid of it. If anyone reads this who does so, feel free to delete

I seem to be blogging here if I understand the term. I have now switched my theme to weaver II which has a way to change the size of the header image, among other possible changes. It looks like the answer to my questions, so I thought I’d post it here rather than put someone to the bother of answering an answered question. I would still like to somehow add the header and menu from my website above the wordpress/weaver II blog page, or if that can’t be done I need to figure out how to link the blog menu button on my site to the actual wordpress blog. I’m going through the forum pages that refer to links but so far most of the references are to links that are internal to the blog.

please post a link to your site, and post the name of your current theme.

at the time of your question I was trying different themes. I now am using bare with the idea that if I can learn how to modify it I will get a blog page as close as possible to my other pages. I am still having a problem with the header image except that bare wants to crop to 0pxx0px and gives me 8 warnings about how bad this is. I made a bare-child theme so I could experiment. It is now my chosen theme so I assume that I did the child theme reasonably correctly. One thing I’m trying to do in addition to getting correct image size is to have the same header and menu as my other pages appear above the wordpress features. I put my header/menu css rules on the bare-child css stylesheet, but haven’t figured out how to add my site html in front of the wordpress html.

I expect your advice would work if I knew how to implement it. I should have asked a more basic question. I am trying to work from editor under appearance and using header.php. This is where I tried to change height and width and it didn’t work. I also somehow managed to remove the standard image so now I can’t find the image code that I changed earlier. Since this is so cumbersome, I think I might be trying to work from the wrong place. What I need is the place to start. Also clear and basic instructions on how to start (and continue). If there is a forum post that gives instructions for this that would be helpful. It is hard for me to select keywords that work.
The advice you give above would be something that I could work with if I were still building my other web pages with kompoZer, so it is not totally a mystery.