RebeccaInMI

Here’s the page where I’m trying to use the calculator:
https://ziggysauto.com/payment-calculator/

Thanks for the recommendation, but I was hoping for something more like the subscribe widget that is part of Jetpack… something where a person could just enter his/her email in a box and click “subscribe” to receive email updates when new posts are published.

One downside is that you have to do everything multiple times. For example if you have three installations, every time a WordPress update comes out you have to do it three times. Every time you need to do a backup you have to do it three times. Every time the theme gets updated you have to do the update three times.

I’m making a note of anything I change in the PHP files so I can create a child theme when everything is done.

Is it best to do this with a custom menu that shows just one category?

Brisus, if I understand correctly the Child Themes page in the Codex (and it’s always possible that I don’t, LOL), functions.php of the child theme loads before the same file of the parent theme. So I think that means that if you have a child theme and you make changes to functions.php, those are the changes that viewers will see.

What I did with a handful of sites I’ve done in WordPress was this:

1. Create a separate directory within wp-content/themes for the child theme.
2. Copy the files from the parent theme into that directory.
3. Edit style.css and functions.php (and whatever other files) of the child theme as desired.
4. Optional: go back to style.css, compare it to the original style.css, and remove anything that wasn’t changed. Make sure you’ve got a referrer back to the original style.css file: @import url("../parenttheme/style.css"); More on that here.

Semi-related question, but how do we control the appearance of that big play button in the middle that a person has to click to play the video? Ours looks like this and it’s not very elegant or aesthetically pleasing.

https://scs-matters.com/images/playbutton.jpg

We’re using the Secure HTML5 Player plugin, but I can’t find a support area on the plugin site.

Thanks, I will check out those plugins and see if they will do what we need.

I thought Celestial Aura was a free theme? I certainly didn’t pay for it!

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/celestial-aura

The problem (for me) with functions.php is that it has multiple opening and closing php tags.

<?php
$themename = "CA";

blah blah lots of stuff here

?>

<div class="wrap">

<style type="text/css"> @import "<?php print get_option('siteurl'). "/wp-content/themes/". get_option('template') ?>/js/colorpicker/colorpicker.css"; </style>

more stuff including a JQuery that runs on page load and lots of functions

<?php
}
?>

So I added that line to the end of the file after that last <?php } ?> and that’s apparently what was causing the white screen problem.

There’s so many opening and closing PHP tags in there, I don’t know where to put that line I need to add. ?? Perhaps I will just ask a friend of mine that knows much more about PHP than I do.

Wow, I am a nincompoop. I reinstalled after clearing the DB tables and the sidebar doesn’t display if I make a static page the homepage. It’s supposed to be that way in Twenty Eleven, apparently. I originally thought one of the plugins I had installed and then deleted had corrupted my installation somehow, but nope.

Sorry for wasting everyone’s time.

In the end, I’m planning on using another theme besides the Twenty Eleven theme. I just thought it would be a good idea to play with plugins, etc. in Twenty Eleven. That way, if a plugin works in Twenty Eleven but not in another theme, and I ask here for help and someone says “go back to the Twenty Eleven theme, disable all other plugins, and blah blah blah” I can do that and know that everything else works.

I think I’ll just delete the installation and re-install and see if the sidebar works then. I wasn’t that far into playing with it anyway.

The front/home page has the default template. I really haven’t done much at all besides putting in some dummy text, changing the header picture to a one that I uploaded, and changing the color of the font for the title. All those are things that I did from “theme options”.

Good to know, but I still don’t know why the sidebar isn’t showing on the page I set as the homepage. Any thoughts on that?

Are there any of those in particular that you might recommend? Trying to reduce the size of the haystack over here… ??

It’s not possible to auto-post to Google+ yet, they don’t have an API to allow you to do so.

That’s what I figured. Too new.