Tom Morton

You may want to try looking into WordPress Multiuser (mu.www.ads-software.com).

A user would register, creating their own blog. You may be able to set their blog to “private” only allowing them to access it. Try searching for plugins that would allow that. Good Luck!

WordPress.com users may be able to do this, but www.ads-software.com (Self hosted blogs) would require plugins for twitter and facebook.

I’d do a quick search here: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/

Are users allowed to register? Check Settings-General- “Can Anyone Register?” Make sure the box is ticked’

I’ve learned so much since this. Functions.php issue, all fixed!

Custom code got it working for me, but thanks for your help Samboll!

Are you custom building the forms/events page and links? Instead of doing it custom I recommend plugins, their a lot easier:

Events plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/events-calendar/

Form Plugin:
https://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/

You’ll have to login to your server via an FTP Editing Program (Dreamweaver, Coda, etc). Then, navigate to your wordpress folder/wp-content/plugins/Amazon-Widget-Folder and find the file that handles the HTML.

To put it simply, you name your HTML with special ID’s or classes. So if I have a link like this:

<a href="https://mysite.com" class="mylinks">Link to My Site</a>

And add this css:

.mylinks {color:#FF0000;font-size:20px;}

Then only the links with class “mylinks” will be red(#FF0000) and have font size of 20px. Same thing will apply to your store Category Images.

Use this css (the WordPress Standard Gallery CSS):

.store-gallery {
margin: auto;
}
.store-gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;			}
.gallery img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
.store-gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}

and use this html:

<div id='store-gallery' class='gallery'>
- Use this every time you add a product/image -
<dl class='store-gallery-item'>
<dt class='store-gallery-icon'>
<a href="Link to your Product Category"><img width="150" height="150" src="Link to the Image" class="attachment-thumbnail"/></a>
</dt></dl>
-Don't copy below here for each product/image
</div>

That should do the trick.

No, the CSS should style it the same as your site. Instead of copying code from the codex, open up your themes “Category.php” and copy/paste that. Then, customize the loop to only call your special category, something like this:

<?php $customQuery = new WP_Query(); $customQuery->query('cat=3&showposts=20');?>
		 <?php while ($customQuery->have_posts()) : $customQuery->the_post(); ?>

Then your code that handles the styling of your post, the copy/paste bit you got from Categories.php.

Then: <?php endwhile; ?>

You could store your youtube embed code in custom fields. Then, call the custom field only where you want to see the youtube video (when viewing a single post?) and do not call it on the homepage.

<?php $key="youtube_video"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>

sorry, didn’t use the code button.

type this: <br />

Where are you listing the categories?

If you are doing it in the loop, you can find more info here:https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category

If you are listing the categories, you can find more info here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Include_or_Exclude_Categories

If your looking to give the client power to edit his own site without getting into the “Themes” and “Plugins”, just make them an Editor account.

Other than that, you could get really complicated and use something like TDOMiniForms – there is a great video on how a user let others edit his site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Hu-lH9gME

Hope that helps!

It looks like its not connecting to the database. Open your server files via FTP editor and look at wp-config.php. Look at the database name/user/password and make sure everything is correct.

In one of your template files (mycustompage.php) you should have this:

/*Template Name: My Awesome Custom Page*/

Then, in the WP Admin, edit the page you want to load. Under the “Publish/Update” button, you should see “Template” with a drop down displaying several files, including My Awesome Custom Page.