Terri Tutich
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: how to upload a themeGo to Appearance > Themes > Install Themes. If your version of WordPress doesn’t have “Install Themes”, update it first, because it’s very old, and then Install the theme as described above.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Really simple question, Can't find solutionI just answered a similar question over here – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/strategy-for-pages-with-posts
My solution –
I’m not sure if there’s a more elegant way to do this, but I have done what you are describing by making custom page templates for those categories (Custom Page Templates https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates) and then changing the loop to query only the category that I want (query_posts() https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts).I guess you could also do it with one page template and conditional statements, but for my purposes, separate templates for the individual categories has always been easier.
Also – you would have to create a static page to use as the home page, and change this setting under Settings > Reading.
HTH…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: H2 tag completely ruins styling when included in code?my guess would be that it’s not the H2 CSS rule that messing things up, but the CSS for whatever comes below it on the theme file you’re using.
Check the CSS for the div or whatever that wraps the post entries below the H2 in the theme file, and make sure it’s got clear:both in the CSS. That should do the trick, but hard to tell without seeing more of the code or a live link to the site.
HTH…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: So simple, but just can't make it work…Glad to help! ??
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: HELP!Looks like you are trying to upload it via the media/image uploader. Go to Appearance > Themes > Install Themes and try to upload it that way.
HTH…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: making custom divs for page templatesI would check to see if the theme already has page class classes included in the body tag for those pages. If so, you could make a CSS rule that applies only to those pages. (Go to the live version of the page(s) in question, look at the code, and see if the < body > tag has a bunch of words in class=”” after it. One of those is usually the page-slug, which helps to make targeted CSS rules).
If the theme doesn’t have this in it, edit your page.php for that theme and make sure the body tag looks like this – <body <?php body_class($class); ?>>.
HTH…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Strategy for pages with postsI’m not sure if there’s a more elegant way to do this, but I have done what you are describing by making custom page templates for those categories (Custom Page Templates https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates) and then changing the loop to query only the category that I want (query_posts() https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts).
I guess you could also do it with one page template and conditional statements, but for my purposes, separate templates for the individual categories has always been easier.
HTH…
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: So simple, but just can't make it work…According to the code, that’s where < div id=”posttitle”> is supposed to be. My guess is that’s where your theme puts the page title. If you haven’t entered text for the page, title, it’s going to show up as a blank line.
To get rid of it, either put the page title there, instead of in the content window on the editor screen, or remove the post title from the template for pages.
HTH…
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: LOST on installation… Please helpDid you upload the .zip file or the unzipped set of files?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Smooth Slider] [Plugin: Smooth Slider] un-enable cssI would suggest creating a dummy CSS file in the plugin’s CSS folder that is blank and select that in the settings. Disabling the CSS completely could wreak havoc on the overall functionality.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Smooth Slider] Get rid of Smooth Slider Link/wp-content/plugins/smoothslider/css/default.css.
I just added the disaply:none to the .sliderlink class rule. Please note the modifying the original (default.css) file could be problematic when upgrading this plugin, as that will almost certainly overwrite the changes that you have made. I would suggest copying the content of default.css and make a new css file in that same folder, and copy default.css’s contents into the new file. Then you can make changes to your heart’s content and select the new CSS file in the options for the slider.
HTH,
Terri
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Smooth Slider] [Plugin: Smooth Slider] Content to the Rightif you put float:left on the image, it should make the content appear to the right. That’s how it’s accomplished on this site – https://thesoundseries.com/
HTH,
terri
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: move data and files and test before moving domain name?Yes, please do let us know what the resolution is. It would be good to have in the “bag of tricks” if someone else ever runs into this issue.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: move data and files and test before moving domain name?I would say that it’s not because of the domain name – the IP address thing should work, especially if you can get to the admin page.
Google search brought up a few possibilities –
- make sure your functions.php is good (or try it with a blank one
- make sure you’re pointing to the right db – do you maybe have more than one site pointing to the same db?
- wipe the db and reinstall
- re-create wp-config.php & upload, in case it got corrupted
- check to make sure a valid theme is in use – sometimes I’ve gotten a smiliar error after changing theme name or something, and needed to reselect theme in Appearance settings
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: move data and files and test before moving domain name?Is there a static HTML index page in the root directory? I’ve had issues with this sometimes. You may want to try removing the static index page(s) and try to bring it up again.
Can you provide a link to the site? Might be able to get more info from there…