mstenzel

Root,
What, exactly, does changing index.php to home.php do?

In case anyone’s getting stuck with the “2 Home page” problem, I got lucky on some code-stripping (“lucky” because I really don’t know what I’m doing) and was able to remove the WP-default “Home” and replace it with my own static page.

See here.

thirtyfour28:
I guessed and took out a line of code from the bottom of my theme’s header file. My guess was based on the fact that it had “Home” as a link. It worked — the WP-defaulted “Home” page disappeared. Here’s the line of code I removed:

<li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>

Then I made my own “Home” static page in Options|Reading and pointed and made that be my “Front page displays” target.
Hope this helps.

This is an excellent idea. Since Visual is the view that is giving folks a problem, making Code the default view would be awesome. Makes the more disruptive editor available on an “as needed” basis. (Yes I know that the vid problems stem from bad embed codes, but the reality is that the Visual/YouTube conundrum is a major topic for these fora).

Slide.com provides html embed code that you can place in your post, but only from the “Code” entry format (not “Visual,” the rich-text WYSISYG format). The process is identical to how you’d embed a YouTube video. I had posted many slide.com shows into my Blogger blog. When I imported them to WP, they came through fine. However, when I try to embed into a new WP post, the slideshow always centers across my page and the image spills over onto my sidebar. Maybe it’s because I’m using K2. I haven’t tried with a different theme yet.

Be careful if you ever go to edit the page and have the rich-text editor on. WP has writes and edits default to “Visual” which will make your embed code go bye-bye.

Root,
Where is the index.php file? I looked in the one in my main root, but that didn’t have the widget info. Should there be something in the plugin editor for SB Widgets?

Thanks.