converting2wp

Despite the name, the plugin Sidebar Login works fine to put a login form on a page. Just

1. create a template for the page,
2. add code to the template to show the form or the content — probably using is_user_logged_in(), and
3. use the template tag <?php sidebarlogin(); ?> to generate the form.

[A characteristic of the forum is that some of the volunteers who respond don’t actually “live” here, so don’t take it personally when the responses trickle off.]

The file above looks like comments.php – a file typically loaded only when a single post is being shown, so it doesn’t have anything to do with the “0 Comments” showing on your home page.

In the Station 2.0.0 files, you will, however, find a file library/_post_footer.php. That file has the code

<div class="left">
<span><?php comments_number(0, 1, '%'); ?></span>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments" title="<?php _e('View Comments', TDOMAIN);?>">
<?php _e('Comments',TDOMAIN)?></a>
</div>

That code is printing out the “0 Comments”. You can just delete those lines (or figure out what the correct conditional logic is, code that and return it to the theme developer). The same applies for the <div class=”right”> that generates the other part of the bar at the bottom of each post — you may want to take out the “Leave a Response” and just leave in the “Edit” post link.

Since Station has a paid version, if you need additional help, that might be the way to go. It’s a fairly complex theme and if you want to be able to upgrade to get its new features, you would, I think, want the developer to know what your requirements are so that they can be included.

Here’s what I use for admin login/site admin when there’s no need for the “registration” and “subscribers” don’t need access to the backend.

<ul>
<li>
<?php
wp_loginout(); // can redirect to home page if appropriate
?>
</li>
<?php
global $user_level;
if (is_user_logged_in() && $user_level > 0) { wp_register( ); }
?>
</ul>

Or, simpler, what if you take out the “Categories” and the “UL” tags underneath it Doesn’t that give you your top level categories at the same level as “DU HQ”?

But I may be completely missing your point.

TEMPLATEPATH and ABSPATH are WordPress symbolic constants which, as you’ve discovered, expand to the current theme directory and to the root of the WordPress install. If you don’t want to put your includes directory there, you need to change the path that you give to the PHP include function to be the path on the server to the directory. So maybe

include ('/home/mylogin/public_html/includes/test-include.php');

If you want to make the path “portable”, you can use one of the PHP variables for this:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/test-include.php');

In the site you’re trying to mimic, there are three <div> sections in the footer, each styled with a class of footer_row (by which I think the author means “footer column”).

#footer .footer_row {
  float:left;
  margin:0 10px 0 0;
  width:310px;
}

You need to make similar changes to your footer.php with the corresponding changes to your style.css.

Now, how to get content into those sections? Well, you can hard code it in the footer.php, but if your content could be generated by a widget, you could also make each section its own “sidebar”. See the 2010 theme (default for WordPress 3.0) for an example of how this is done. You can also review the “Define Sidebars” section in the Codex for a brief overview.