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Thanks Neil.

Form section is as follows

<label> Your Name*
    [text* your-name] </label>

<label>Email Address*
    [email* your-email] </label>

<label>Contact Phone Number*
    [text* Phone-Number] </label>

<label>Desired Date / Dates*
    [text* Desired-Date] </label>

<label>Length of Booking*
    [text* Length-of-Booking] </label>

<label>Age Range of Participants*
    [text* Age-Range] </label></div>
<br>

[submit "Send"]

Mail section –

<b>From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject:Party Enquiry</b>

<b>Name - </b> 
    [your-name]

<b>Email Address -</b> 
    [your-email]

<b>Contact Phone Number -</b> 
    [Phone-Number]

<b>Desired Date / Dates - </b>
    [Desired-Date]

<b>Length of Booking - </b>
    [Length-of-Booking]

<b>Age Range of Participants - </b>
    [Age-Range]

Oh wow yes that was much easier, thanks!

Posting how to do it in case someone comes across this thread, as I found it difficult to find the solution online.

If WP isn’t giving you the option to install to subdirectories, edit the following line in your wp-config file

define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true);

change true to false and you’ll be able to choose subfolders when setting up a new site.

Thanks for your help both of you. I’ve tried tweking different sections of my existing sites with custom templates etc and it’s just been a nightmare, I’d really like to just be able to use different themes, different widgets in the same areas , etc etc. @catacaustic I think your multisite suggestion looks perfect, thanks.

Thanks I saw that, tired to avoid it as I had no idea what it meant but I’ve now given it a go, I’m stuck though. Before I continue please keep in mind a have absolutely zero idea about any of this, I’m just trying to follow instructions I don’t hugely understand…

I found this in another thread –

you must install WAMP or MAMP on your computer, then install WordPress on your computer, export the Joomla database in a SQL file with phpMyAdmin, import this SQL file in your local MySQL and run the import on your local WordPress.
Once the site is ready in local, you can move it back to the live server using the plugin WP Migrate DB.

I’ve got WordPress up and running on WAMP, and even managed to import the old blog content. So I’m guessing to add the joomla database I just use phpmyadmin to upload it? That’s what I’ve done anyway, but now I don’t know what database parameters to use now. the wp-config file has what I guess is correct for the hostname, database name and username, but I don’t know what to do from there. Leaving everything else blank gives an error.

Or have I gone wrong somewhere else, I was pretty much guessing the whole time as to how to carry out the instructions in the above quote.

Thanks.

Thank you very much.

I have stumbled across a new problem with this though. I created a new template and uploaded it via FTP. I copied all the content from the 1 Right Sidebar template, but when I use this new template on a page the right sidebar does not appear! Any ideas as to why that might be, as the templates should act identically I would think.

I followed this instructional

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-custom-page-in-wordpress/