rmcellig

Thanks for getting back to me!!

Before I can use WordPress it has to be super easy to use and maintain for me. Yola is just that, I create a page with three columns, done. No coding. Maintaining it is easy as well.

I’m really hoping WordPress can do this for me. Are there any specific videos I should watch? I have been checking out some of them on youtube. My main concern is being able to set up pages in WordPress that look relatively the same in structure as what I have now on my current site.

https://www.mcran.com/intransition3col.php

https://www.mcran.com/bennettsnippets.php

https://www.mcran.com/intransitionsnippets.php

You will notice that these pages have multiple columns and are centered on the page. I already have the code for these pages in text files so all I need to do is copy and paste the code into the column. The code I created is done using tables which I find easy to work with. One of my pages uses unordered lists.

i find it easy for me to create the table code in a text file and like I said just be able to copy/paste the code.

I’m hoping I can paste the code in my post as well as the ability to adjust the columns.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks again for the tips! I have now set up a test site and am looking for a plain jane theme like the one I am currently using on my site. Very minimalist with none of the comment section I am seeing with the theme I am using in WordPress at the moment. I would like an absolutely blank page and then just build on that if possible.

Thnks for your comments! What I am thinking of doing now that I have WordPress installed on my hosting server is run a test WP site with my stuff to see if I like it and what I can do with it. Then I can see where I go from there.

Soundcloud looks interesting as well!

Do you mean the code that I posted in my initial post? I wrote this code in a text editor (textwrangler) and then just pasted it into WP. Works fine in my other CMS (ModX), and if I save the Textwrangler file as a html file, it shows properly in a web browser.

Rather than go through what I did on my current web site, I have decided to start over again by using WordPress. So, here is how things stand at the moment. On my hosting server are all of my files (PDF, MP3). I need help in finding out how I can display them in WP. Regarding my MP3 files, I have several XSPF files which contain a playlist of my MP3 files.

I have broken them down alphabetically. So all the artists that start with the letter A are in a file called a.xspf, same goes for the other letters of the alphabet. All I need to do is have an MP3 player reference these files. In my current web site this is what I have done using the code mentioned above. In case you are wondering where this code comes from, here is the web site where I got it from (https://tinyurl.com/66grow)

I hope you can understand what I am describing here.

I did paste it into WP but when I go to view the page, it never displays the content properly. I know I may sound kinda vague but all I get is a spinning wheel as if it is having trouble connecting to the playlist. Works fine outside of WP, that’s why I am wondering if I am doing something wrong.

Pasting a youtube video works great.

There is a lot of flash on my site because I need to find a way displaying my Radio snippets from over the years. I also have some PDF files on my site as well that are actually my Radio playlists. Now I am not after making WordPress look exactly like my current web site. If I have to redo the look and feel of my current web site in WordPress, so be it.

I just want to have a way of updating my site from anywhere and posting my Radio interviews, PDF playlists, and my Radio archives and current shows which are all MP3 files. All of this content lives on my hosting server. The code I use for these pages are basically links to the files on the hosting server.

For example, the code behind the A-B tab of the In Transition Archives page looks like this:

<embed src="https://www.mcran.com/mediaplayers/mediaplayer.swf"width="375"height="475"allowscriptaccess="always"allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="height=475&width=375&file=https://www.mcran.com/assets/xspf/itsnippetsxspf/b.xspf&backcolor=0x 9F9F9F&displaywidth=0&showstop=true"/>

Very simple. I am using a Rapidweaver plugin to display the Flash and letters that run across the top. Same goes for the Radio tab. I use the same plugin and the Playlists and Shows section are HTML and CSS that were used to create this.

I am hoping that I can just paste the code into WordPress and it should work OK?