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Yes you can make 3 separate categories appear on different pages… V.easy

And also on the same page.

Look at the link https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/128636?replies=8 you’ll see they i have two different categories loading on the same page in different divs. Done via the follow command

<?php $posts = get_posts( "category=3&numberposts=5" ); ?>

category=3 being a specific category (can be found in your wp-admin)

numberposts=5 being the number of posts shown on my page from that section.

Suggest you setup WP locally, have a play. Will make more sense what i’m saying. https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

The point is Mamp blatantly supports wordpress as the link i pointed to and indeed codex shows. Stating that ‘My guess is that your server is not configured to run the PHP’ doesn’t give a newbie much help does it?

Otto42 – Mamp is like Xampp.

Not sure how much Mac support you’ll get here but confirm for us the path you are using? Does it allow for port as per these instructions? https://michaeldoig.net/4/installing-mamp-and-wordpress.htm

NP – Enjoy.

1)
The 3 blogs, are they in effect 3 separate categories? i.e. news, leadership & general group or do you actually mean 3 separate blogs with each blog having multiple categories with in it? If its the first – yep WP is your tool. If its the latter look at WP MU https://mu.www.ads-software.com/

2)
One way of doing this would be to have a category for calender. You post events to this category as posts, on the front page you then have a mini loop which retrieves the last three posts from this category. They would appear as links, and when clicked would take you to that post. Done something similar for news/blog posts my self recently https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/128636?replies=8

3)
Easy as pie – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities

Can see this subject will need stickying
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/135605?replies=2

I too have XP pro – doesn’t mean its installed – mine wasn’t. If it is it will be in add/remove progs, add/remove windows components. If its ticked, then its installed and you need to either disable it (google disabling iis xp pro) or if you don’t use it then uninstall it (be sure you don’t use it first tho) ??

Very, very nice! Like the colours! Layout is pleasing too.

Suggestions:
1) Change the permalinks
2) Unless you plan to open comments – Change the template used for store, schedule, roster and Pics. You’ve disabled comments, but left the comment text there. I’d remove the text all together and have comments disabled.
3) Worth upgrading to 2.3 and adding tag support.

Sounds like you are talking about a mainly static front page (doesn’t change) except for a part of it which shows the latest news?

If thats correct look at this – had a similar q a while back… https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/128636?replies=8

Requires CSS DIV and creation of mini loop but other than that its fairly straight forward. Only difference being it sounds like you want some of the actual post to appear rather than just title in that case look at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop_in_Action#Introduction and excerpts.

Ah – just noticed. Only difference being in my case i used WP as a CMS for whole site, not just news. So the frontpage was actually based on a WP template i created.

Hi,

First steps are probably to get wordpress setup locally on your pc or within a virtual machine.

Take a look at this https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/ which shows you how to setup wordpress locally.

Also take a look at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Getting_Started_with_WordPress

Once you have it setup and working locally go through the codex and learn how to use the admin interface for posting articles etc.

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

As for writing your own theme, easiest way to learn is find a theme you like here https://themes.wordpress.net/ download it, run it. And then try replacing one of the images with your own (keep the same filename at first). Then when happy take a look at the style sheet (css file) and just try to work out what gets loaded where etc. Its a steep learning curve, but a rewarding one.

CSS help https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

When you are happy with your theme and want to take your blog onto the internet, then you need a host which provides these pre-reqs https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Hosting_WordPress but thats a bit ahead of you probably for now.

People need to learn that whilst wordpress itself is an easy system to use, writing your own theme requires patience and NON-WP specific knowledge i.e. a graphics editor, css, html.

The support from people on the forum is generally top notch, but you do have to do some of the research yourself and if you don’t currently have the base skills (CSS/HTML) learn them and then come back.

Learn CSS from sites like this
https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Then WP theme writing will make a lot more sense.

I’ve got javascript for the floats + ie. Hence how that works…

Set the navlocation in iestyle.css to float right and its worked…… don’t understand that… or if its ok to leave it like that.

Re pastebin – noted.

Thanks for the reply

Good example of cms on WP

https://www.hottogs.com/

I dont mean to sound negative but it just does not seem to be a very professional CMS (if it is. All i want to do is create a nice clean site with a hellof a lot of content for site users.

Easy then – mini loop to bring in what ever posts you do want on front page, WP pages for the rest and clean graphics.

Whooami – Don’t claim to understand it, but since making that change i’m getting search results. Weird – but hey thank you ??

OK thanks ??

Searchform.php now changed to same as default

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
<div><input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>