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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Way to renumber permalinks?Thank you for replying esmi. Sorry for the delay in responding, but my computer was down with a bug. I meant to say loop.php (not log.php). I’m going to mark this thread resolved.
I really appreciate all the help esmi. This is actually the first time I’ve ever used a community forum (though I hand-coded my first web page in ’97).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Way to renumber permalinks?Thank you again esmi.
Ok. I created a child theme and uploaded it to my hosting site. Whew, that took me some time. Thank goodness for the great link you referenced (Child Themes) which cited a really detailed step-by-step tutorial with images (How to make a child theme for WordPress: A pictorial introduction for beginners). The latter site was just at the right level for me.
I replaced the original log.php file with one exactly the same except I made the change from
<?php the_excerpt();?>to<?php the_content();?>in two places.Now the archives are showing just as the original posts do (with line breaks and everything). I did have to upload my header again.
Two questions now that this is done. First, do plug-in updates ever change the log.php file (because if they do, I’ve just overridden the change)? Second, as per my last post, is there any reason, though maybe not obvious to a complete newbie, to just use an excerpt of the original post in the archives? Even if I change it back, I’ve certainly learned something from creating the child theme file:)
Thank you so much for your help.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Way to renumber permalinks?Thanks for replying esmi. I went to the “Appearance” subpanel, then the “Editor” submenu, and I found the
archive.phpfile on the right side under the heading “Templates.” When I clicked on thearchive.phpfile, it showed the file coding on the left side, but I didn’t find any place where it referred to “the_excerpt”.I’m using the Twenty Ten 1.1 theme. Might it be in another file?
From your reply, it seems there was a choice made to just use an “excerpt” for archives. I’m a complete newbie at WordPress so maybe my original question is off base. Is there some advantage to using an excerpt without formatting over the original post?
Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Way to renumber permalinks?Thank you for your help esmi. I tried emptying the trash, and it worked great. It even deleted the archived copy, which was excellent because the archived copy had removed the line breaks from the original post.
I tried enclosing the poem in preformatted text tags
<pre></pre>, but the font is not very attractive. In any event, with the TinyMCE Advanced plug-in installed (and the box checked in settings to stop removing the <p> and<br>tags), I’m not having this problem anymore.What I’m still having problems with is how to ensure the archive page looks like the original post. The post now has all the right line breaks, but the archive of the post has removed the line breaks so the poem runs all together. Is there a way to get the archive page to look like the original post?
Thanks for any help.