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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Images and CSS not displaying
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you Tara — unfortunately I don’t think it’s quite the same issue. Permalinks work and I don’t get 404 errors, just certain assets have the wrong path because WordPress is looking for them at (for example) /images and I need it to look in /wp/images as I have everything installed in a subdirectory.

    Thank you very much though

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Content Management for beginners
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    okay, thanks, I’ll look into that one… Meanwhile I have figured out how to assign a page template to a page!

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Content Management for beginners
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I edited the home.php file that came with my theme (Starkers) and added a bunch of pictures and captions to it. The bit which was generated as a preview of posts I’ve allocated to a column on the page as part of, but not all of the index page content.

    I can easily go into the home.php file with an editor and make changes, but is there any way I can hook up those elements to the dashboard to make them editable by my client? I guess at the moment I could tell her to name her images and size them a particular way, and that would allow her a way to change all the images by uploading them to her directory, but the captions and text content are “hard coded” in the HTML. There must be some way to identify each string and make it accessible from the dashboard (?)

    Perhaps I’m going about this all the wrong way? maybe it was a mistake to build the page in HTML first?

    Thanks again, I hope you’re not losing patience with me

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Content Management for beginners
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Well, I have had a look and I’m a bit lost. I still can’t see any way to edit the index page from the dashboard at all, and although I’ve created a page template as instructed, I can’t see any way to assign that to an existing page. The custom fields are way above my head but they look very much like content attached to posts, which I’m not even showing on my pages. Is the text-widget perhaps more the type of thing I need for my static pages?

    Can anyone recommend a good place to learn about these things? The codex seems very brief and not very suitable for someone trying to understand the basic tools available.

    Thanks

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Content Management for beginners
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks again, I have some reading to do!

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Content Management for beginners
    Thread Starter vcobrighton

    (@vcobrighton)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you for the quick reply, and I’m sure you’re right — custom page templates might be the way forward. As far as I can tell, the visual editor only allows for a single block of content, but correct me if I’ve got that wrong. Maybe you can assign classes to items within the visual editor?

    Is there any way for my client to alter the content of the index page? The only way I can see to alter that is to edit the php files directly.

    I will have a look at your links — I really appreciate your help

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