Bob Cristello

You are going to have to contact your hosting company to help you with this or get the information from the original web-solutions company you worked with. If your company is paying for the hosting, it should be very straight forward to get access.

If you are looking for individual feeds, such as for a category, you would take the url you want the feed for…ie

https://davidsonbelluso.com/blog/

and add “feed” to it, like this

https://davidsonbelluso.com/blog/feed/

That will give you the RSS Feed for that category. This should also work with tags and other taxonomies you define.

I hope this answers your question.

Bob

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Bob Cristello.

First you would navigate to your WordPress admin section to the PLUGINS screen. Then you would deactivate the plugin you wish to remove. I would probably do some testing at that point to see if any of your critical functionality is affected. If not, you can then DELETE the plugin right from your PLUGINS screen. The DELETE link is not available until you DEACTIVATE the plugin.

Before doing anything, please make a backup of your entire site prior to removing or deactivating any plugins. This way you can have a rollback point to the condition your site was in prior to removing/deactivating any plugins.

You might take a look at https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/easy-query/

You might want to use a tool called backupbuddy that will rewrite the database for your during migration. It is a tool from ithemes that we use to migrate sites all the time.

You might want to take a look at this plugin.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-post-type-permalinks/

To do this without a plugin and use code, you are probably looking at changing the rewrite parameter of the register_post_type function.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/register_post_type

If it is already too late to do an UNDO in your editor, then your best bet is to use a backup of your existing project and find the header code there.

The heart of the WordPress search system uses this type of code…

<form method="get" class="searchform" action="https://yourdomain.com/">
<input type="search" class="field" name="s" placeholder="Search">
<button type="submit" class="searchform-submit">
<span class="fa fa-search" aria-hidden="true"></span>
<span class="screen-reader-text">Submit</span>
</button>
</form>

Every theme has an example of this, you might want to look at a few themes and see how it is implemented and take that and insert it into your theme.

You may also want to take a look at this Codex entry.

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

Good luck with your project.

Bob

Featured image sizes are often the topic of conversation in a variety of forums. First, the featured image size is usually set in your theme. Typically, the theme creates at least three images from a single image you upload, thumbnail, medium and large. Many complex themes create many more than three images from each image that you upload and use that same image in a variety of places.

Also, in the theme templates themselves, this is where the image is being placed along with the decision to what size is being used. So, for example, you may upload a single image and three images are created, one might be used in the header of the article, one might be used in a blog listing page and use only the thumbnail.

What I typically do, is figure out where the full sized image is being used and create my images in PhotoShop so that the largest version of the image is the cleanest and clearest, and let WordPress do the rest of the work for you.

I am not sure if this answers your question exactly, but the bottom line is that that theme itself usually dictates the different image sizes being used. Even if you go into your admin area and create specific image sizes for thumbnail, medium and large, the theme templates control what sizes are actually being used – unless you modify this code yourself.

Good luck with your project.

Bob

You might want to take a look at the full-width screen templates in the www.ads-software.com Theme repository.

https://www.ads-software.com/themes/tags/full-width-template/

You probably should learn to play with the filtering settings in the Theme Repository to help narrow down your choices. Playing with Free themes is a great way to learn about WordPress themes, all of which can be customized to your own needs should you wish to roll up your sleeves and learn about template creation/editing.

Good luck with your project.

In general, you want to learn to use media queries in your CSS. A media query allows you to set CSS for different screen sizes. A basic example can be seen below.

@media only screen and (max-width: 500px) {
    body {
        background-color: lightblue;
    }
}

This basic example sets the background color to light blue if the screen width is smaller than 500px. Typically a theme will have multiple breakpoints set for different screen sizes. In your style.css, your media queries (@media) start at line 2323 and you can see how they have broken them down. So, for example, you might enter something like this in the @media group starting at line 2578

@media only screen and (max-width: 580px) {

footer#colophon {
max-height: 75px;
}

}

Please remember that this is just an example and I highly suggest you do some studying on @media queries and grasp the basic concepts before you start experimenting.

You need to build your args when calling $WPDB something like this..

$args = array( 
  'post_type' => 'custom_yootunes', 
  'posts_per_page' => 5,
  'orderby' => 'rand'
);

You might try something like Geo-my-wp, though I don’t have much experience with it myself due to the fact that most of my websites are US Based only.

https://geomywp.com/

Looks like you will have to set up different post types, but it should get you going in the right direction.

Good luck with your project.

While I dont’ actually suggest this – due to the fact that it could throw things off on your other pages of your website – you could do it in CSS , for example:

div#foogallery-gallery-1041 {
    min-width: 1300px !important;
    margin-left: -100px;
}

If you want a consistent header for your blog using an existing theme, it usually means doing some html, php or css work in your actual theme file. If you feel comfortable with this type of work then it should be relatively easy for you to accomplish.

If this is not something you are comfortable doing, maybe you could get a friend that is skilled with this to help you or hire a professional WordPress developer to do this work.

If you are going to attempt this yourself and you are a beginner, you probably want to make backups of your entire site before you start playing with the theme file.

It is something you can do yourself, but you will need at a minimum some basic html skills to accomplish.

Good luck with your project.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Bob Cristello.