rhythim

Well I’m really disappointed that 2 responders started to help me configure this, but didn’t follow through when I needed a bit more information. Not sure why someone on this forum would give a partial response (partial for me, anyway, I need more clarity,) and then disappear. Very sad.

Steve, Atlaf, where did you go?? Can you follow up on this question please?

Anybody else? I’ve seen tons of WordPress sites with the Read More link right in the excerpt, after, or instead of, the three dots{…} instead of as a separate button under the excerpt, so I can’t imagine this is that difficult to achieve…should be simple:-)

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by rhythim.

Thanks for replying Steve, and I apologize if I sound uneducated, but installing the Show Current Template plugin didn’t seem to help much.
It did create a drop-down list in my menu bar, a very long list with items like themes/bridge/framework/etc. and themes/bridge/includes/etc., but nowhere in that list can I find an item that has the word ‘excerpts’ in it, or a reference to the loop under which I would paste the ?php the_excerpt(); code.
The instructions in the codex – “To generate a link include the following code in the loop directly below ?php the_excerpt();” – assumes we know what a loop is, where to find the particular one in question, and how to open it and paste code under it. I’m not a WordPress newbie – I’ve created hundreds of successful WordPress sites and added lots of Custom CSS code – but I still feel those kind of instructions assume too much.
SO since I’m not seeing anything about ‘excerpt’or what to do in that plugin’s list, can you give me a little more step-by-step here? Thanks

Hmmm…would really love to get a response on this. Don’t know who monitors this particular RPWE plugin, but hopefully you can respond with a simple solution, thanks

Sorry I wasn’t clear Juggle, I simply want the already-existing Recent Posts widget to list oldest posts at the top, scrolling down to most recent posts at bottom. Basically the reverse order of WordPress default, which is to put the newest post at top of list, using date chronology.

Currently I have my site set up to show a Static Front Page, then successive posts/pages each on their own “page” with their own slug…not one long scroll through all my posts one-under-another on one page.

I only have one Right Sidebar, which has Recent Posts at top, then Categories, then Pages. It’s all looking fine…I just want my oldest post listed at the top to newest post at bottom. For an educational blog like mine, it’s more natural for the post list to be read top-to-bottom, so you can read them in order.

I’m surprised through all WP’s iterations, they haven’t installed a quick one-click option for reversing the post order…or maybe they have and I’m just not seeing it?

Here’s my site, in case you need the visuals:
http://toawaken.org/

And to make matters even stranger, it’s only doing it on Firefox???
I’m on a Mac and just for the heck of it, I tried opening my blog in my other browser, Safari. Worked fine, Editor didn’t turn grey, let me edit the CSS, header.php and everything!

How can this only be a problem for Firefox? (I have latest version.)

Well that seems doubtful, cause why would anyone want to download & use a Theme that has it’s own theme name hard coded into an image file. That would mean going into your Themes>Header>Image folder and redoing or replacing the hearder image, just to get your Blog Title/Tagline to show up. I must have sampled 100 WP Themes and never heard of that being necessary, just activate the theme and there’s YOUR title/tagline.

At the very least, if that were the ase, you would think the author would stipulate clearly in the demo or Theme description that you’ll need to replace his whole header image for your title to show…and there was no such warning on the Theme home page or anywhere else, so I doubt this is the answer.

Clayton, I really appreciate your thorough answers, thanks much!

I looked in plug-ins and there does seem to be a few plug-ins that allow customization of the number of posts shown and other things, I’m going to try some of these.

But your wisdom about backing up core files was also key; I haven’t done any backing up yet because it seemed a bit complicated and drawn-out in the codex. At the bottom of the codex doc. there’s a couple plug-ins listed for auto-scheduled-backup, like WD-DB Backup and BackUp WordPress, which I will try. But I will take your advice about not altering any core files without some form of back-up. One thought-perhaps my db and files are already backed up through my host, which is GoDaddy. They installed WP for me, and have all my files in a column on the host manager, so maybe it’s already handled.
What is your favorite path for file and db backup?