converting2wp

Would setting this up as categories work?

Two top level categories:
family
work (or expertise, or …)

The two URLs would go to the category pages. [If you have subcategories of each, then it might take some tweaking with the page templates – or not …]

One question, though, is what do you want to have happen when someone goes to http://www.yourdomain? My guess is you’d want it to go to
yourdomain/category/work

Then you’d need to have another address you’d uses to go to the page that shows all the posts. So, I’d start out trying to set this up as

Settings > Reading, check static front page and set
Home Page – something whose template shows just the work posts
Posts Page – the default blog page that shows all posts

Then set up a “family” page with and appropriate link (maybe with a .htaccess redirect to take out the “/category/”) to show all posts in the family category.

Hope that helps you think through the options.

Check

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/170694?replies=2

I haven’t tested it (I got here and there looking up something else) but it seems to be an answer to your question.

Google Ajax Search is the only plugin I’ve seen that does that. But I haven’t tried it recently — http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/google-ajax-search/ says compatible to 2.2.

Skip WordPress for a bit.

Until you can upload a file index.htm to the directory that the hosting service tells you is the “root” of your web site, and then browse to rootxperts.com and see that file, the rootxperts.com domain has not been configured correctly.

Once you can do that, then look at WordPress.

If you’ve already done that, look at http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
to see the instructions for the index.php file (delete the index.htm if you used the test above) that needs to live in the root of the web site. [You can skip steps 1 and 6 if you already have your files in the wordpress subdirectory.]

Moderator Otto42 says:

Future versions of WordPress might not even support the manual sidebar.php approach anymore. You never know, after all.

And what happens to footer.php, header.php, and the other places where folks might want to drop dynamic code? I tried widgets. They wouldn’t do what I wanted. I reverted to editing sidebar.php — using Template Tags which seems to me to be the right level of abstraction. (Or at least it’s a programming paradigm that seems natural to me, someone who’s been programming for 40 years but rarely builds anything –even a plugin or a widget — from scratch.)

If the quote from Otto42 is a serious prediction, I’d suggest that this discussion be moved to a new thread.

In your CSS file, there are some lines:

#sidebar ul li {
	list-style:none;
	line-height:1.6em;
	font-size: 1.1em;
}

Change the 1.1em to change the size of the text on the right sidebar. [If you recently added those lists you may have changed things so that this rule is the one that takes precedence.]

In your left sidebar (at this point anyway) you’ve got explicit font tags to set the size. If you changed your table in that sidebar to a list you could use the CSS rule above to apply to that sidebar too, and have an easier time keeping things consistent.

CSS can be your friend — but it takes awhile to figure it all out.

The validators at http://validator.w3.org/ and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ can sometimes help figure out where things are going wrong. But the primary tool I used to look at your site was the Firefox Web Developer extension that offers tools to view and edit CSS markup.