wendel-brume

I started down the road of getting “pro” help on a simple website. It became very clear very early that they would be charging me a ton of money to set up what is basic in WP for free. I’m using WP as a very simple CMS, and have had to remove a lot of ‘stuff’ to get it down to bare bones. But that’s a far more efficient way of getting to where I wanted to go than building the equivalent from the ground up.

Yep, it can be that simple. Go ahead and try it and see what happens.

The codex is your friend:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Designing_Headers

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Images

Many themes have a dynamic sidebar. It shows some standard content like a search box and calendar, etc. But if you place even one widget in the sidebar, all the standard content is removed. So all you have to do is add it back using the widgets – In your case, Categories, Links, Archives and Meta. Plus any new ones you want to try. It’s very easy. Dashboard>Design>Widgets

If you run Firefox, install an add-on called Firebug. Firebug will show you where the formatting is coming from. That said, it sounds like a tag has been left open and is affecting text that follows it.

rleon – My suggestion won’t work for that, sorry.

Did you mean ‘above’ Search and Recently Written, etc? There isn’t any room to the left of the sidebar.

An easy way to do this is to add a Text widget at the top of the sidebar and put the code for a link to an image inside it.

People need a link to your website to understand what you want to do.

I don’t see the need for a splash page, especially one that expects me to read stuff that appears on the screen at a slower pace than I can read it, and pushes the ‘enter’ link off the bottom of my screen.

Dashboard>Design>Theme Editor

If you look carefully inside the first few files listed next to the edit window (for example – single.php) you’ll find the “No comments” text within a PHP command string. Be very careful to change only the text and not touch anything else, like surrounding quotation marks. Also, I found that changing the “1 comment” and “# comments” (or whatever) to anything else broke it.

You’ll have to change it in all the files where it appears to make it change on every version of a page that might be displayed.

If you are unsure of what you are doing, make a backup first.

All CSS is in the style.css stylesheet for each theme.

Dashboard>Design>Theme Editor>Stylesheet

when you ftp in, are you inside an htdocs that is above your already mentioned htdocs?

No, I only see one htdocs.

I assume that htdocs is NOT necessary in your urls, right?

Correct, I never see htdocs unless I’m in the FTP client. We did break the domain into two IP addresses early on. I had a regular HTML site on the domain first, and then added WP later. Then I wanted the domain to point just to the WP blog, and I think it’s at that point I ended up with two IP addresses. Now I’m trying to move all my files under the single domain again, but with WP in place.

I haven’t quite grokked how the directories are working, it started out as blog.wendelbrume.com/htdocs/wp-etc but now it’s just wendelbrume.com/htdocs/wp-etc. Not sure what happened. (That’s how the FTP client sees the site.)

If the folders are under htdocs, that makes them browsable, right? But then, all the folders are under htdocs, so I don’t know what’s right there.

Heh, I like velcro!

I’m no expert on this stuff, but I think you’re missing a FlashVars or some other variable that points to the XML file. If you go here:

https://components.earthscienceagency.com/

They have an explanation of how their player is connected to the XML file. It might give you some ideas.

Thanks Jeremy, but could you explain a little bit more what you meant by:

and changing your default documents to serve .html before .php would work