tony-b

There are some themes that will allow you to create that look, from the base theme, but you WILL need a little CSS knowledge so that you know where to start.

The first theme i ever customised from top to bottom was THESIS 1.6 , TONS of online tuts for everything from nav to footer and all the stuff between. what I liked was that it allowed me to use a .custom .css meaning if (when) i made a mistake, getting back in track was a simple process of ctrl+z until it looked OK again lol

in your admin panel look to the bottom left and you will see SETTINGS ,then go to > READING and here you will see the option to choose a static page.

Hi,

as far as the canonical links go, i tend to use edit my .htaccess info to deal with this rather than a plugin, seems more natural to sort it at the source .

here is what my .htaccess looks like, ( with file compression + absolute links )

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^MYSITE.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.MYSITE.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>

I have this at the root of my site-

as far as robots , I tend to use the THESIS framework, as this allows you to deal with all the extra SEO stuff from the admin panel..

but you can simply write a robots.txt file and upload that to your root, this will serve for all pages..

Hoe that helps

Hi,

could you not just use the “text” widget and insert you html into that?

Hi alism,

Thanks for the reply.

The current robots in the root, is as a result of testing yesterday -I will correct this now. to reflect that I want to allow everything other than the standard install stuff.

My worry is that GOOGLE does seem to be referencing the robots in the subdirectory – If it didn’t I wouldnt have the “URL restricted by robots.txt” message showing in my google webmaster tools against 141 of my URL’s.

I hope that this is a residual effect from the day I installed W-P, and that the default disallow was referenced (dunno how, in a subfolder??)