metlin

By CMS, do you mean Content Management System?

And from what I understand, all that you ask for is definitely possible using WP.

Here’s what I’d suggest –

– Install WP in the /blog directory
– Copy the index.php to the / directory
– Go to WP and create static-page (by doing to Write -> Pages)
– Go to Options -> Reading and set the front page to be static-page.php from the pages list
– To get to your home page, use /
– To get to your blog, use /blog
– Create additional pages as you wish in your templates.

Alternatively, if you have installed WP in the /wp directory, that is fine too. You can simply create a redirect HTML page in the /blog directory and point it to the /wp directory.

While this would functionally work, I’d recommend installing it straight because search engines and spiders do not like redirects all that much.

Does this help?

What the volunteer (read: unpaid) helpers here don’t really like – if you are doing a paid job and you are asking for free help…

Sure. I’m not necessarily disagreeing with that sentiment; merely that to each his (or her) own.

Cheers.

Is the static page that you are trying to create a part of WP or not?

If it is indeed a part of WP, you can just go to Options -> Reading and choose one of the static pages as your front page. As long as you have the index.php in the root (/) directory, everything is fine. Just ensure that you edit it to reflect your WP path.

If it is not a part of WP, that is fine too. As long as the index.php exists in the /wp directory (and its reference has been changed accordingly), you can do https://www.mydomain.com/wp and get to it.

Does this help?

Oops, sorry. I meant cre8tive. My bad! (there, fixed it in the original, too).

Where exactly are you experiencing the difficulties?

Jewlicious –

Does this happen only for posts or does this happen for pages, as well?

whooami –

I’m not necessarily advocating what cre8tive is doing, but a lot of people use Open Source for commercial and/or enterprise purposes. There is nothing wrong with it.

In fact, I’d say that people asking for assistance on these products isn’t wrong, either.

I mean, is that not one of the strengths of OSS? The fact that there is a robust community that supports it and helps it evolve faster than traditional commercial software?

If cre8tive wants to make a living out of doing this, fine, that’s his problem. At the end of the day, there is more to it than just tech-support.

If every Open Source contributor felt that they needed a pie from commercial users, then they risk alienating that segment of the population, which would not be a good thing (and which ultimately defeats the core purpose of such an endeavour).

What goes around comes around and all that.

I had a similar problem because TinyMCE was being a pain, and I kept getting either DB errors or being brought back to the Write Post page.

I’d recommend clearing out your cache + cookies (e.g. Tools -> Clear Private Data in Firefox) and trying again.

And I do not know if this is of any help, but if a page that was set as your home page has been deleted, you can go to Options -> Reading and set your “Front Page Displays” options to whatever other pages that you think should be instead.

Alternatively, you can also select it to display your latest posts, as well.

A caveat – this is only in WP 2.3, though. Since you had indicated that you are just getting started, I figured that you are probably using this version.

That’s a neat design!

Could you make the search box a little more visible, though? I had to look around a bit before I could spot it.

You’re quite welcome!

It looks sleek and well done.

I do have one suggestion, though. When you pop up one of the divs (say, for About or Contact), you probably want to pop only one at a time.

For instance, when I click both About and Contact, both pop up, one below another. That’s a little counter-intuitive.

I’ve released a WP 2.3 compatible version of UTW, which fixes this problem.

Sure, but it’s as good a place to start as any, I guess.

Thanks.

How about having two different sets of blogrolls and calling each of them independently on your sidebars?

For instance, if you had two different types of link categories, WP lets you invoke them by id.

So, you could do something like this —

<?php get_links_list('id-for-links-on-left'); ?>
<?php get_links_list('id-for-links-on-right'); ?>

That should solve your problem. The codex page on get_links_list has more.