[wdvltalk-social] OT Wordpress - Christina

[joseph harris]

No url, Christina, because it is on my laptop. But I will probably drop this theme anyway. There are two other problems.

Because I am making this more plain than my current design, I wanted to bring up blog heads in a colour - probably the blue I use now. No matter how many ways I put the colour I just cannot change it. Is this a problem with Wordpress, or just with this theme, do you think? [I know I'm putting the property i n the right place becasue I can get a colour change in the byline.]

And then I find there is no archive by default, and following th e archive instruction seems not to work. So how many more problems? The promise is nice in many ways, but I have already spend too much time to get nowhere much; and I have plans for quite a few plugins.

If I can't quickly find another theme that appeals I'll have to stay with shtml and do as much as I can with SSI. Any three column themes you would recommend?

Joseph Harris  -  Debt Control Man
author: Control Your Debt Crisis on Your Own Terms
blog: http://debtcontrolman.wordpress.com
http://www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk
debt dictionary: http://www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk/debtwiki/


From: "Christina Lannen" 
> Hi Joseph,
> 
> Odds are that it's a widget ready sidebar so when you add a widget via the
> Admin all of the existing content will disappear.  It's supposed to do that.
> 
> I'll have to take a look at the theme.
> 
> BTW do you have an url to share?
> 
> Chris
> http://www.lannendesigns.com/ 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wdvltalk-social-bounces at wdvltalk-social.org.uk] On Behalf Of joseph
> harris
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:47 PM
> To: Web development and beer
> Subject: Re: [wdvltalk-social] OT Wordpress - Christina
> 
> Christina,
> 
> Thanks for answering. 
> 
> As it happens I have just hit a problem ;-). I'm developing on my laptop and
> using Atahualpa, which is close to my previous design.
> 
> I am mystified by the right sidebar. The contents seem set, which I'll get
> over! Strange that if one tries to add a widget the set content disappears.
> 
> But my problem is with links categories. I have set category sizes much
> smaller than default [1.3em normal] which is fine for 'blogroll' and for al
> l the esisting headings. However, I have added two links categories - and
> plan to remove 'blogroll'. The added categories have come up in the default
> [1.6em bold].
> 
> Any thoughts on what they might be picking up so I can change it? In this
> theme the setting is under sidebars&widgets>style widgets>widget title. But
> I think with 'blogroll' there they may be appearing as list items. But there
> is no size adjustment on the form.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joseph
> 
> Joseph Harris  -  Debt Control Man
> author: Control Your Debt Crisis on Your Own Terms
> blog: http://debtcontrolman.wordpress.com
> http://www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk
> debt dictionary: http://www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk/debtwiki/
> 
> 
> From: "Christina Lannen"
>> Hi Joseph,
>> 
>> Sorry for taking so long (rather busy and then forgot).
>> 
>> WordPress is great for SEO and use the All in One SEO plugin.
>> Forums - SimplePress
>> I like the http://shopplugin.net/ for ecommerce and it will handle
> downloads
>> (not free thought).  I'm not absolutely sure what you need for download
>> management (auto-expiring link?).
>> 
>> WP is a CMS so you can have your static pages (use friendly urls) and also
>> blog.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wdvltalk-social-bounces at wdvltalk-social.org.uk
>> [mailto:wdvltalk-social-bounces at wdvltalk-social.org.uk] On Behalf Of
> joseph
>> harris
>> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:21 AM
>> To: Web development and beer
>> Subject: [wdvltalk-social] OT Wordpress - Christina
>> 
>> Christina,
>> 
>> Though like Shakespeare's Schoolboy 'moving like snail' I have - or am in
>> the process - of returning to the matter of how to make my website very
>> effective, and so thinking about Wordpress.
>> 
>> Since you have experience I wondered whether you can point me to some good
>> primer on the possibilities. I have some fairly complex ideas, and am
> trying
>> to upgrade my knowledge in a lot of areas relevant - including things like
>> marketing, fora [forums if you prefer], shopping system and download
> control
>> of course, expanding specialist dictionary, and a number of other things -
>> including a blog [more accurately moving my blog to the website to improve
>> ease of keeping things up!].
>> 
>> The site will essentially be of books, but in three distinct areas, even
> if
>> there is some crossover.
>> 
>> Joseph
> 
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