Michael_Green

You’ll want to morph your current index.html file into a page template file, typically front-page.php, then select that page under Settings / Reading from the WP admin.

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

From that same page…

Create a Blog Page:
If choosing to add a blog, choose Add New Page again.

Title it “Blog,” “News,” “Articles,” or an appropriate name.
Do not use a custom Page template for this page. The template files home.php or index.php will be used to generate this page in the Theme.
DO NOT add content. Leave it blank. Any content here will be ignored — only the Title is used.
Publish the Page.

Go to Settings / Reading and select your new Blog page as the designated “posts page.”

You could use “blog” by itself in the URL, but check out the Permalinks under Settings for different options. It’s much easier to work with WordPress than it is to work around it, and categories can help give your permalinks some SEO love. I generally use a “custom structure” like /%category%/%postname%/

Try tweaking your sidebar.php file.

Look for these headings …

List Sub-Pages

List subpages even if on a subpage

on this codex page:

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

You need to be more specific about where you’re trying to “get in” and what, exactly, you’re trying to edit: The page content? The theme options? Custom CSS colors?

It’s possible that you’re trying to login and manage your site with the 1&1 MyWebsite Editor, in which case you may have a browser-compatibility issue. Check for that and other support links here:

https://help.1and1.com/mywebsite-c71728/getting-started-c71735/supported-browsers-for-the-1and1-mywebsite–editor-a792458.html

If you can “get in” without using the 1&1 editor, using your login at politicsrecycled.com/wp-login.php, you should be able to access the WP Dashboard. Start by deactivating all of your plugins. Go to Appearance / Themes and then preview/activate a default theme like Twentyfifteen to see if it displays correctly; if so, there might be theme-specific issues with your chosen theme. (Have to tried re-installing it?) Look for Pages and Posts to edit specific content.

If you need more help, pls be specific: I went to this link or menu item, and I tried to do this action, and this is what happened.

Thanks for link, tommytx, I think you nailed it on the head.

Although billed as a verification problem with Webmaster Tools, the gist of this support ticket describes a sitemap submission problem in Yoast SEO. Tommytx’s link is helpful. Here’s another:

https://askwpgirl.com/submitting-wordpress-site-google-webmaster-tools/

It sounds like you encountered an error during the connection process. Please note that Jetpack requires the site owner to connect to a valid WordPress.COM (not .ORG) account. Sign up here if you haven’t already.

WordPress.com is the commercial, hosted version of www.ads-software.com. Creating an account is free, and you don’t have to customize your WP.com/myname/ site if you don’t want to. Even if you don’t use your WP.com site, there are perks to membership such as Jetpack (free) and a useful admin panel where you can monitor multiple WP sites (provided you also connected them via Jetpack). The latest version of Jetpack even allows you to upgrade plugins across multiple sites from your WP.com admin, and many of the other features work as good or better than stand-alone plugins.

This is a very well-supported and well-documented (as in not lame) plugin that works well out of the box, but user management is handled by WordPress, not the plugin itself.

Install and activate the plugin, then navigate to Events Calendar / Options from your WP admin panel. The “Access Level” drop-down menu allows you to set permissions for posting new events. A typical usage would allow “Editor” or “Author” status users to post and edit events.

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

From the look of the wpshindig.com site, it looks like you’re well on your way to implementation. However, if you have not previously allowed site visitors to register as site users, you may want to add some content or an FAQ page to explain where they can register/login, what they’ll see on the WP dashboard when they get there, and how to navigate to Events Calendar / Calendar / Add Event. Oftentimes new users get confused by the login process and by the user profiles they see after logging in.

If you have further questions, please consult the developer’s robust support options before posting here. If this answers your question, please mark this ticket closed.

A sitemap is actually an XML file, not HTML. Check for older plugins that might conflict. New installs may show this message on the Yoast SEO admin, for example:

The following plugins might cause (xml sitemaps) issues with Yoast WordPress SEO: Google XML Sitemaps

With that said, keep in mind that your XML sitemap is not the file that Google is looking for during site verification. Instead, Google is looking for an HTML file that you upload to the root directory of your WP install before attempting to verify the site in Webmaster Tools. This can be done with FTP or your web host’s cPanel file manager, if available; it can’t be done as a WP upload, since the file will land in your content directory.

Alternatively, you can add a meta tag to the head of your pages or child theme page templates as shown above, but the meta tag must be added to ALL of your pages. Obviously, Alexa isn’t the right call here; the tag itself should look more like this:

meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”Vofasfasd3i3e_wATasfdsSDb0uFqvNVhLk7ZVY”

I think the HTML upload is the cleanest method, but you can handle the meta tag easily enough by using another plugin, All in One Webmaster. Once installed and activated, go to AIO Webmaster / Webmaster Options to enter your Google ID (not the full tag).

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179?hl=en

The absolute best way to ensure your photos are sized correctly is to use a photo editor like Photoshop or Gimp before you upload them to your site using WordPress. Many plugins including NextGEN Gallery will auto-generate smaller thumbnails when you upload photos into the galleries, but they won’t resize smaller photos into larger ones.

Beyond the size of the photos, you haven’t really explained how you want them to be displayed. If you want “all pics at once” to be displayed, you have a couple of options:

1. All photos are sized 980px wide and are stacked vertically in the page or post. You don’t really need a plugin to do that; you could simply “Add Media” from the edit screen on the page or post.

2. If you want more of a “photo album” display, say 4 or 5 photos across, that display will be built using thumbnails that aren’t full-size. (Screenshots.) The various display modes and the sizes of the thumbnails are available in Gallery / Gallery Settings.

Some themes may show it, but the vast majority do not. I personally use the category descriptions for my benefit, not site visitors.

If you paid for the premium Ken theme, you might get the quickest answer from the theme developer:

https://themeforest.net/item/the-ken-multipurpose-creative-wordpress-theme-/7281173/support

However, assuming that the theme does not display category info by default, you’re probably looking at a child-theme situation. I ALWAYS use child themes, even with premium themes, since your changes will be protected when the “parent” theme is updated.

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

Once you get your child theme up and running, adding the category info can be accomplished by copying and modifying the template(s) used for the pages and posts where you want the info displayed. You may need to modify the style.css file to adjust the styling if desired.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes#Template_Files