unihead

Fair enough. Many thanks for your help Tobias and thanks for your plugin. Donation coming!

Fantastic, thankyou! While I’ve got you, how do I centre the content (in this case images) in a table cell? I’ve tried “text-align: center” with no luck.

Much appreciated.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by unihead.

You’re quite correct – I’ve since found out it was because the server memory limit had been reached without my knowledge. My sincere apologies for wasting your time sir!

Thanks, I appreciate your perspective. Keep in mind though that if you read what I said it did not cast aspertions on anyone involved with WordPress, or WordPress itself. I’m referring to my own lack of knowledge, and how *I* find it difficult.

It is true however – I believe – that I can’t find any good clear tutorials and that the WordPress paradigm is more difficult to get your head around than MT (dynamically created pages vs static pages). Personally – again – I find the Codex difficult to use, and one page at least seems to be out of date (that on creating new Pages) but other mileage may vary.

As these are all personal opinions, they are by definition unfounded – but hardly unfair! 😉

I must say, though, I’ve made about six posts on this forum, and although I’ve eventually got answers, in virtually every case someone has got a bit impatient or shirty with me even though I have tried to be as polite as possible and tried first to find my answers in the documentation. I know that newbies can be frustrating to the ‘old-timers’, especially newbies who are more designers than programmers like myself, but surely the future of WordPress lies in bringing newbies into the fold a bit gently …?

Thankyou, I got some professional help just then. Appreciate you checking it out though.

OK, now I see. Since I was using a custom template that didn’t have the_content() on it, it wasn’t being called.

I realise this is difficult, but to someone who doesn’t know php and is trying to understand WordPress, it is extremely non-intuitive. I managed to teach myself how to modify MovableType effectively, but there is a lack of clear tutorials for WordPress, and I find the Codex to be very difficult to use (and incorrect, in the case of the Write page listing).

Thanks for your help and patience.

So I suppose my question now is, does anyone know how I put a contact form on a page I have created with a custom template?

I guess the thing is here is that I have my own page layout, so what I did was create a new Template called ‘contact.php’, with my page layout in it and

<?php
/*
Template Name: Contact Page
*/
?>

at the top. Then I did a ‘Write Page’ to make my contact page, using Contact Page as my template.

I put <!–contact form–> in my ‘contact.php’ – ie my template – page where I wanted the form to be.

Can you tell me what I did wrong with this process? If I put <!–contact form–> in the Page Content box of the Write page form, how would it know where to put the form in my layout?

Thanks for your patience with me, I appreciate it.