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« on: October 11, 2009, 04:51:00 PM » |
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Hi, Guys - I'm a complete newbie here at Lunar Pages. I've downloaded Wordpress into my domain and I'm trying to figure out how to do the following: 1l Link the Wordpress blog to the HTML pages of my site (I'm using iWeb to build my site). I have basic HTML experience and know how to link pages, but need to know exactly HOW to get the Blog page holder I have in my website to connect with Wordpress and vice versa (connect Wordpress to each page in my website) so that the transition between pages is seamless. 2. How to make Wordpress blog look similar to the other pages of my site. It's a simple style: black background and white text. I also have an image that I want to upload into a header (if possible) of the Wordpress site (to mimic the look/feel of my web pages). I'm waiting for my site to propagate because I had to change the name servers when I switched packages (from LP site to Basic Hosting Plan). I've searched everywhere I can think of in the forums and can't find exactly what I need. I have submitted a help ticket, but they really didn't answer my questions and were decidedly "unhelpful" in terms of only giving me partial information instead of all the pieces of the puzzle. I'm waiting for them to get back on the 2nd reply I've sent to them. Can anyone help, please? It's been two weeks since I purchased my initial package and domain name and I'm still not up and running.  Thank you for any help that you can provide! Best Regards, Sheri Warren |
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Mitch
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 05:31:46 AM » |
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Hi Sheri, think you'll want to look into/dive into the way WordPress templates and designs are handled. There is a lot of code in there that might look un-familiar, but if you have done some basic HTML or CSS work, then some of it should look familiar to you. This tutorial should help some, it covers what is needed to build a design from scratch, and from there you should get enough information on how/what to edit and where, to match your site up with your blog: http://themetation.com/2008/07/14/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1/Also, once your domain name starts working, if you could post both the web site and the blog URLs here, would be helpful for us to see how many changes and what changes exactly would need to be made. |
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Sheri Warren
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 06:07:51 AM » |
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Thank you, Mitch. I'll post the URL and Wordpress links as soon as the propagation is complete. I really appreciate your help!
Sheri
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Mitch
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 06:10:56 AM » |
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More than happy to help! (and I'm sure you'll get more than a few members here say the same). As long as you don't mind mucking around in the templates, trying to find familiar code, changing it - see what changing that does, and then if you break something roll back to a backed up version, you should be fine.  In the mean time, you might make sure you have an un-modified backup, so that way, just in case you edit something incorrectly and can't fix it, you can just go back and re-upload the backed up version. |
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Sheri Warren
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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2009, 02:23:31 PM » |
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Ok, guys...I think I have it figured out.  I'm actually pretty proud of myself, given the fact that I haven't done HTML or web development seriously for several years. I was able to successfully do re-directs from my website pages to my Wordpress blog and then do re-directs from the blog bag to the website pages. BUT...I'm not seeing a comments box on my blog at all (YIKES!) So, obviously I need to know how to fix it. I did go into the Blog CSS file and change the font and border colors for the Comments box to white (RGB: 255, 255, 255) but that did absolutely nothing. How do I get the comments box to show up? ANDI still need to figure out how to upload a custom image header to the Wordpress blog. Here are the URLs: Website: lynsouth.com Wordpress: lynsouth.com/wordpress Thanks for all of your help! I am sooooooo close to being able to publish this whole thing. I'm just lacking these few things. Best, Sheri |
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Sheri Warren
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« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2009, 04:38:40 PM » |
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Okay, I've part of it figured out. It's the custom theme I uploaded.
I'm using a Wordpress theme called "Tomorrow" which was developed by Andrea Pacquola. I've checked his website and got some good tips for dealing with the theme.
I was able to find the script to add a "Leave a Comment" link, but NOW, when I try to follow the link, I get a Page Cannot Be Found error. I'm trying to find which file to edit to connect the Leave a Comment link with the Comments page. I'm a little stuck.
Still need to figure out where/how to upload an image to the header to replace what's currently there.
Any ideas?
Thanks, guys!!
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Mitch
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2009, 04:20:41 AM » |
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Looks like your permalinks might be setup incorrectly. When clicking the comment link, or the link to pull up your post, I get sent to: http://lynsouth.com/wordpress/http:/lynsouth.com/Lyn_South_Official_Site_-_Young_Adult_Fiction_Author/Home.html This tutorial on permalinks should help with that: Importance of Permalinks in WordPress |
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Sheri Warren
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2009, 09:18:15 AM » |
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Ok, I changed the Permalink structure and now the hyperlink is taking me to a second instance of the same Blog entry page. Here's the code behind the "Leave a Comment" hyperlink <?php if ( !is_single() && !is_search() ) { ?> <div class="meta"><a href="<?php comments_link();?>"><?php comments_number('leave a comment','1 comment','% comments');?></a></div> <?php } ?> I think that the page where people can find the comments box is called comments.php. I just need to fix this link (and hope that the link on the comments page works to get people back to the main blog entry page), I think and hopefully all will be well. I don't know the name of the file where this hyperlink should be pointing and and how to code it. |
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lexhair
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2009, 10:52:42 AM » |
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Ok, I changed the Permalink structure and now the hyperlink is taking me to a second instance of the same Blog entry page. Here's the code behind the "Leave a Comment" hyperlink <?php if ( !is_single() && !is_search() ) { ?> <div class="meta"><a href="<?php comments_link();?>"><?php comments_number('leave a comment','1 comment','% comments');?></a></div> <?php } ?> I think that the page where people can find the comments box is called comments.php. I just need to fix this link (and hope that the link on the comments page works to get people back to the main blog entry page), I think and hopefully all will be well. I don't know the name of the file where this hyperlink should be pointing and and how to code it. You call the comments box with: <?php comments_template(); ?> |
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Sheri Warren
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2009, 11:08:13 AM » |
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Okay...here's the code I have: <div class="meta"> <a href="<?php comments_template(); ?>"><?php comments_number('leave a comment','1 comment','% comments'); ?></a></div> <?php } ?> </div> This hyperlink is creating a circular reference that does not take me to the comments_template (comments.php is the name of the file). All it does is take me back to the same blog post page that I started out at. I've tried different iterations and it doesn't fix it. Funny thing is, that the code that lexhair gave me worked fine, initially...but then quit working. I've re-looked at the permalinks, too. Could this be a bug in the template? Thanks, guys URL: lynsouth.com Wordpress: lynsouth.com/wordpress |
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lexhair
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« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2009, 05:38:06 AM » |
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Okay...here's the code I have: <div class="meta"> <a href="<?php comments_template(); ?>"><?php comments_number('leave a comment','1 comment','% comments'); ?></a></div> <?php } ?> </div> This hyperlink is creating a circular reference that does not take me to the comments_template (comments.php is the name of the file). All it does is take me back to the same blog post page that I started out at. I've tried different iterations and it doesn't fix it. Funny thing is, that the code that lexhair gave me worked fine, initially...but then quit working. I've re-looked at the permalinks, too. Could this be a bug in the template? Thanks, guys URL: lynsouth.com Wordpress: lynsouth.com/wordpress What are you trying to link to? The comments_template() does not return a hyperlink so I'm not sure what you're trying to do. I think that the page where people can find the comments box is called comments.php This is incorrect. Comments.php isn't a page. It's an 'include' that gets called from single.php or a page template. The only place you can leave a comment on a post is the post itself (single.php). |
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