mdelaflor

Thank you Rev…I will give it a shot…nice site by the way. I want to add Google Ads to my tutorials and free artwork pages….

Mike

Thanks Figaro

than you I will try that…

Mike

Thank you!

there are no instructions with this plugin….those pages are empty.

Well after all that trouble with smartarchives.php and exec-php I found that exec-php will NOT let my admin pages work. When I activate the exec-ph- plugin my admin pages stop working. I deactivate it and then they start working again.

So I am back to square 1.

What I want to do is create a single page that displays my categories and the content of each category as list that viewers can choose from. That was my original goal. If you go to my site at https://www.delaflor.com you will see a link at the top that says Articles and Tutorials. Thats where I want the list displayed. But I dont any other categories displayed just the Article and Tutorials.

Mike

t310s thanks for you comment. I am not a PHP programmer so I am not sure what you mean. Can you explain your answer a bit for me?
Mike

OK I get it. Thanks…

Ok now I am thorougly confused if there are no assembeled pages then what does a bot look at to index a site?

Mike

Thank you Samboll you replies are helpful and I learned alot reading the link you posted.

I wonder how does a bot crawl a dynamic site like WP? Since WP pages are not static and on a server directory somewhere how does the bot see the content sitting in a database? Does anyone know?

Mike

Hello thisisedie, thank you for all your help. You have answered several of my posts.

I must be doing something wrong. I created a static page using the Dashboard>Pages. Then I installed an activated both plugins. I configured the smartarchives.php file to point to the new page (I think this is where I made the mistake).

I dont understand what the archives.txt does or where it comes into the picture. Should I create an archives.txt page uploaded it to the theme root directory and point the smartarchives.php file to it? Is the archives.txt file supposed to have a the <?php displayArchives(); ?> call?

Thanks again,

Mike

For some reason this is not working…sigh…I intstalled both plug-ins created the static page with the php call and I get a “Could Not Read File” error.

I think the problem is the absolute path required by the smartarchives plugin.

Does the exec-php plugin present a security problem?

Mike

Thank you! That was a great help and it worked exactly as I wanted. Its nearly 1 am in the morning and I am bit tired. I did look in the archive.php file but I missed it. Do I have to change it in archives.php also? This file has an S after the word archive.

I am determined to get one other thing working before calling it a night. I have created a static page (see https://www.delaflor.com/articles-tutorials) where I want to display a list of all archives and catagories. I used the plugin called smartarchives.php and exec-php. But I am not having any luck. Do you have any ideas on how to creat such a page?

Mike

I found this <?php the_content(); ?> in the page.php file in the inove directory.

I changed it to <?php the_excerpt(); ?> but nothing changed.

I still get full posts and not a list. Maybe I changed the wrong file.

Mike

Thanks for you reply. Where do I find the template tag? what file is that in usually?

Mike