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You may also want to look at your header.php file.

If it has a wp_list_pages call, that will take care of putting the home page in the navigation bar. But if the template assumed there would that “home” would simply go to the the list of most recent blog entries, not a page, that may be coded separately in header.php and you’ll need to delete that.

If you can tell us what theme you’re using and where you downloaded it, we might be able to be more specific on what changes to make.

Can you post a link to where “it” says … ?

From the above, all I can guess is that there’s software (a plugin?) that adds a forum to WordPress, and the installation instructions are telling you to upload the software to the wp-content directory in your WordPress installation. This is the standard way to extend WordPress, though the instructions usually say to upload to the wp-content/plugins subdirectory. Find more about plugins at
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Managing_Plugins

To do that, you’ll need an FTP program. If that’s where you’re stuck, look for an ftp tutorial, e.g. http://www.ftpplanet.com/ftpresources/basics.htm or the WordPress codex page at http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/FTP_Clients

Sorry, I guess I don’t understand the question.

Once your news is posted in WordPress, it generates an RSS feed that you can postprocess and display somewhere else.

It can display other blogs (I use the feedlist plugin).

And if you have a way to show headlines on your site that come from RSS, you can certainly show the headlines that come from a WordPress sits.

There may be a simpler way, but here’s how I’ve done it…

The documentation on get_posts has sample code snippets on how to put a set of posts on an arbitrary page.

In your theme directory, you create a blog.php (probably based on page.php or index.php) and make it a page template (see codex on creating templates). You can give this page template the name “blog” and add the code to it that you need. The final step is to make it part of the WordPress site by creating a new page and saying to use the “blog” template. [The name “blog” will appear in the dropdown box for the templates on the Edit Page screen.]

I think the answer is “it depends” — both on your installation parameters and on what you’re really trying to accomplish.

But I suspect that life will be easier with two separate installations unless you want to make the leap to WordPress MU.

In my sites where Dreamweaver templates control the “static” content and WordPress handles the “blog” portion, there are really two separate versions of the template.

I don’t know of any way for WordPress to “read” the Dreamweaver template directly. What I did was to recreate the features of the template in the WordPress theme. It’s the theme that controls the look of the pages “managed” by WordPress, not the .dwt file.

So, I’d guess that your in your theme folder there’s a header.php file that has the navigation bar that includes the link with the text Gallery. Find that and change the address in the corresponding anchor tag from
<a href="/gallery.html">gallery</a>
to
<a href="/journal/slideshows">gallery</a>

How you change the file depends on whether it’s managed in Dreamweaver or through the WordPress administrative interface. If the latter, you can change it on the road — from the Dashboard, select Presentation > Theme Editor and find the file (probably called header) with the navbar. If the former, the file with the navbar (probably called header.php) will be in the directory wp/wp-content/<your-theme-name> and just needs to be changed and republished.

It’s possible things will be more complex than this if the navbar is generated by PHP code. But I hope this helps.

I actually prefer starting the links with / rather than http:// in case there’s a need to move the database (to test or whatever).

So if you want to link to page2 which is a child of page 1, you can specify its URL as “/page1/page2/”. [Note the trailing / for WordPress “pages”.] Relative links work, too.