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Cool, I’ll have a look when I get back from work.

Question: the description on your site talks about creating groups, but not how to limit viewing of posts for a certain group only, which I thought was the main purpose of the original question. Does the plugin address this yet?

//Edit: Because if it’s just managing roles… there’s a most excellent one already out there: https://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager

More complete/robust user-level control certainly would be great. Being able to define audiences as Emma says would be great. Being able to have areas for subscribers only would also be brilliant, and while that can be kludged together with some of the existing plugins, it’s just really rather cumbersome ?? AJD, looking forward to see what you can hatch.

FWIW, Google is going bonkers lately. It seems to have tweaked its algorythm into the shape of an overcooked noodle, dropping and de-indexing sites right and left, regardless of dynamic content or static content, keywords/description or not, links or not, etc… //shrug//

Don’t worry about the wordpress part of it at the moment. You have to translate into HTML what you have in your pdf. That’s somehting that comes easy with experience, but even then, some designs can be quite tricky.

Once you have one html file, you can start analysing how to break it into the different theme pages. I believe there are 4 “main” theme parts:

1-header.php
2-footer.php
3-index.php
4-sidebar.php

So that gives you a bit of an idea of where your different parts of the one html page go. You probably could get away with doing just 1 page, index.php for your theme, but that would lose you a lot of future flexibility.

Once you have the HTML and an idea of how to break it down into the different theme’s parts, you can start worrying about what bit of WP specific code to put throughout. To do that, the best is to look at how other people have done their templates.

It’s an adventure! Good luck, have fun, save often, don’t forget to eat, sleep, go to the loo or be nice to your loved ones ??

https://www.w3schools.com/css/

To have your own domain name, it must be hosted somewhere. So you must have a webhost to keep all the files that make up your site. I think that the short, non-technical answer to your question is: “no”.

Sorry ??

Thanks for that. I’ll have to look at it. I’m not much of a code jokey, so not sure about altering the code, but… One thing that I see is that the plugin doesn’t work on subdomains (well, that’s my reading of his page). Sooo, we’ll see ??

Cheers

Thanks Cherie ??

Yeah, the glossary thing is kinda neat. I wish I could claim it as my own, but it’s not ?? Shanta describes the technique here: https://shantarohse.com/wordpress/create-a-glossary-for-your-wordpress-site

In short, it uses two plugins: WP-SNAP ( https://www.nateomedia.com/wares/downloads/wordpress/wp-snap ) which handles the Glossary itself, and Ubernyms ( https://www.huddledmasses.org/jaykul/ubernyms-20/ ) which handles the auto-linking. It took a bit of fiddling with it to see how it works best, but if you look at: https://cook.becanz.net/recipes/free-recipe/beef-kumara-mash/ you’ll see that the following terms are automatically linked back to the glossary: “mise en place”, “deglaze”, “reduce” and “medallion”.

Kinda neat, yeah ??

regarding the background photo… It really depends on where/how you want to display it. If you want to display the photo as the background of the entire page, in your theme’s style.css, you would declare a background-image for the body element. Or you can do it only for one div, etc.

You’ll have to search a bit on how to use background-image, and the various other relevant attributes (repeat, position, etc).

Doesn’t the front-page-plugin work on index.php, rather than home.php?

Funny that, I’m in the same situation, and we posted at about the same time! https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/78800?replies=1

Looks good, though the colour contrast between text and background isn’t strong enough for me. A good tool to check on that is: https://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

Cheers

Bit of a bump on this thread! I’ve made several changes to the site (including content). I’ll be developing more content, obviously, but I’m coming near finished in terms of site design/features.

I added a couple plugins to get a glossary going, and each time a term in the glossary appears on the site, it links back to the glossary (thanks for the tip Shanta!).

I’ve used a few conditional declarations along with stickymenu plugin to deliver navigation to sub categories for some categories.

I’ve customised wp-login and wp-register to make them look more like the rest of the site.

So, what do y’all think?

What do I think? I think you’re embarking on a fantastic adventure! And I think that blogging it is an excellent idea! I also think you’re in for a bit of a rude cultural shock when you get to China ??

As for the theme, I like the general concept. I think the top horizontal navigation would gain from increased font size/colour contrast. The “register” link is a bit lost.

It is not immediately obvious that the search function is a search function.

Cheers, have fun on your adventure ??

I’m not clear what you mean by the “hover text”. If you mean the text that appears in a small “popup” when you hover over a text link, that is, I believe, handled via the title attribute of the link tag, it has nothing to do with css.

If that’s not what you mean, then, I’m not sure. sorry.