Jonathan Lake

Awesome! Works great, thanks.

Thanks, but it’s still not working.

I wonder if this is something you could solve with CSS alone. Do you think something like this would work?

post:last-child {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; (whatever)
}

.featured-text {
color: white;
}

Link doesn’t work.

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

Don’t forget to remove the PHP tags if you already have them.

Where do posts come in to all this? Are they a part of a CMS structure?

On the dashboard you’re given multiple ways to go about sharing and posting content. I italicized posting because WordPress uses that word in a few ways. A blog post is a post, but so is a page. You can even create your own post type if you need to. Ex: a testimonials post type. Blog posts use their own template (usually index.php is where the blog roll is stored) and are called through a while loop.

If i would normally create a framework of divs for say a main content with two columns and three boxes underneath with other info to click to other pages, how would I structure that in my static front page?

Page templates. When you create a new page, you can select which page template you want to use from a drop-down menu. There is but one, and that is the default page template. You have to create your own page templates to structure the layout with divs.

Common page templates are ‘One column with sidebar’, ‘Full-Width’, ‘2 column layout’, etc.

hmm, all that just went all over my head…

I am not the brightest when it comes to this stuff

Who is your web-host? Do you have an account with them you can log-in with?

I cant access the plugins through the admin. unless I am missing something

Hmm, that’s no good. I thought you might be able to because I had a similar problem recently where I couldn’t make any updates or I would get the white-screen. However, I was still able to access certain areas on the dashboard.

If you’re locked out of the dashboard completely, you have to get into your file manager through the cPanel and take it from there. For starters I would edit the wp-config.php and make sure define('WP_DEBUG', false); is set to true. You may also be able to deactivate or remove plugins at that point.

I can’t see your website either, but I’d recommend disabling each plugin one by one to see if that fixes the problem.

Think of WordPress as a refrigerator door waiting to be covered in magnets. You’re going to cover it in several magnets such as but not limited to:

• header.php (logo and navigation menu would go here)
• index.php (main content area)
• footer (copyright, social media links, etc.)
• a style magnet (style.css)

That refrigerator door (WordPress) is going to keep all of these together in close proximity.

Unlike building a website without a content management system, you don’t have to worry about repeating yourself when you make a change to a specific page. Everything is dynamic, and linked together so when you change something in the footer, it will change it on every page you’ve made saving you tons of time.

Now most people know WordPress just as a blogging tool, which it is and does very well, but it can also create websites that don’t incldue a blog. Instead of using blog posts to generate content, you can use pages — another post type WordPress offers. A page is just like a blank html file so there are no divs being created like you seem to think.

Keep playing around with it and you’ll soon see what I mean. There is an options panel on the dashboard that lets you set the homepage to a static page instead of your blog roll.

Hope that helps clear things up a bit, but like I said, mess around with it. If you have any more questions let me know.

Keep searching for a theme or hire someone to do it for you.

You have to create a custom page template or edit your Main Index Template (index.php).

Removed.

You should move the navigation to header.php. As of now, you have it nested in the body tag.