ikthius

I know my wrapper class is the problem, I need to give it a size or my borders for the wrapper do no go much further than the header.

100% does not work, and leaving it blank has the same effect.

so I have set it to 3000px just now, but how can i get this to increase as the post length increases?

please help

I found a good bit of css thead>tr>td

filezilla is topnotch and free

that div was supposed to be an image that stays on to say what area they are in, but I just renamed the class.

I changed the stylesheet link rel, to what you suggested but it is still the same

also use a password manager if your using the default password, change it to something more memorable…..

I am in the same boat as you, I am finding that starting out with wordpress took ages, and I got it working, even to the point i got my own theme to look like the site, although that has to be slightly adjusted to be perfect for the site, just a small hick……

I also feel the codex is huge a bit like norton antivirus knowledge base, to big to actually ind what you want.

good luck and stick with it, it eventually sort of gels in your head.

I eventually found what I was looking for….

to make wordpress posts show the excerpts outside of your wordpress directory you need to have a php file to do this.
my file was called index.php within a separate directory.

then I added this to the very start of the php file

<?php
// Include WordPress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('/data01/abc/demo/resources/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
//whatever your web directory structure is, https://www. did not work
query_posts('showposts=1');
?>

then had my html to keep the same layout and added this piece of code where i wanted the excerpt to be shown:

<!-- mini loop for the excerpts -->
<?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
  <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
  <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
  <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="text1">Read more...</a>
 <?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- end the mini loop -->

I hope this helps someone, as I had been hunting non stop for a few days, thinking it was the holy grail, now I think my next challenge will be, showing excerpts from other wordpress blogs not on my server, e.g. bbc blogs.

I have been reading a lot about this……

I am getting conflicting information about using any wordpress content outside of wordpress’ loop.

is it possible to have an excerpt of the latest post outside of wordpress on a static html page?

I got a widget, I copied over the functions.php from the default theme, and added what I wanted.

thanks.

there are no widgets enabled…

but I never had widgets when i first downloaded wordpress but could get the posts links

thanks, I got it working with that help cheers,

while I am at it, when I first tested wordpress a month ago, I could see in the sidebar in the ul Posts and under that a list of posts…
e.g. Pages, Archives, Categories, Blogroll, Meta

I don’t seem to have that now, please could someone tell me how to restore that?

and if you can limit the amount of links…

why dont you make your css for the body background???

this will make the image cover the qhole screen on background, then if you want see through divs, either make transparent images, or, by checking out the cssplay site, tell a div to go opaque.

hope this helps

how do you add new register links and login links?

ik

i fixed my own problem.

thanks, it was localhost that caused me the problem, it was capitalised.

ik

I have checked the error logs and I will post here I have changed a few things to ~***, home001, yoursite

[date 10:30:54 2008] [error]  File does not exist: /home001/yoursite/public_html/500.shtml
[date 10:30:54 2008] [error]  SoftException in Application.cpp:252: File "/home001/yoursite/public_html/demo/resources/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php" is writeable by group
[date 10:24:20 2008] [error]  unable to include "/~***/404.shtml" in parsed file /home001/yoursite/public_html/404.shtml
[date 10:24:20 2008] [error]  File does not exist: /home001/yoursite/public_html/~***
[date 10:24:20 2008] [error]  File does not exist: /home001/yoursite/public_html/demo/iresources
[date 10:24:10 2008] [error]  unable to include "/~***/404.shtml" in parsed file /home001/yoursite/public_html/404.shtml
[date 10:24:10 2008] [error]  File does not exist: /home001/yoursite/public_html/~***
[date 10:24:10 2008] [error]  File does not exist: /home001/yoursite/public_html/demo/iresources

the iresources was a mistype by me.

I see it is trying to say in earlier logs that the files do not exist but looking on my FTP program, they are there in the directory structure
abc.co.uk/demo/resources/wordpress

I hope you guys can put me on the right path

I tried the posts to see if this updates the rss and it does, why wont it work for the pages?

Or do I need to have something other than Firefox dealing with the feeds?