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Okay, being new to this I'm looking for some relatively low-level advice. I'm looking to create a front page that looks somewhat uniform in design and stuff with the posts/pages that will be linked from it, but I don't want it to display the same header/footer/sidebar. What I've done thus far is created a new template file for that front page that doesn't include the sidebar, which was easy. However, since the header and footer are necessary for all the style stuff I'm wondering what the best way to further modify that template is. Right now I'm thinking I have a few options: 1) Edit the header to use a conditional tag for "The Front Page" (http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Front_Page) and exclude a the elements I don't want. 2) However, I am starting to think that my final front page design won't really need anything that resembles the header on the posts/pages, so I'm wondering if I should create new header + footer that are just for the front page and somehow create a new template tag to call them. I don't know how difficult this would be, though. 3) Don't use a header + footer at all on the frontpage and figure out how to call everything I need to without them. I'm just now learning CSS + HTML but I'm totally willing to figure out what I need to in order to implement the best solution here. Just being unfamiliar with the full structure of Wordpress, I figured I'd ask for help.
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Omits-Bagels posted:I'm chugging away on the design of our new site and I have a questions that is probably simple to fix but I'm not sure what that solution is called. The read more button in the editor is your friend.
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Dec 25, 2011 11:44
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etcetera08 posted:Okay, being new to this I'm looking for some relatively low-level advice. you can make files like header-front.php and footer-front.php and then do get_header('front'); and get_footer('front'); Then you just need to make a different sidebar for the homepage.
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Dec 25, 2011 11:45
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Ned posted:The read more button in the editor is your friend. I forgot to mention that I can't use the read more function because it breaks my theme.
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Dec 25, 2011 12:42
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Omits-Bagels posted:I forgot to mention that I can't use the read more function because it breaks my theme. Why is it breaking your theme?
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Dec 25, 2011 23:06
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Ned posted:you can make files like header-front.php and footer-front.php and then do get_header('front'); and get_footer('front'); Aaaah beautiful. Definitely will just do that. Thanks for the tip 
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Dec 26, 2011 04:58
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Ned posted:Why is it breaking your theme? On my homepage I have property teasers for each property. When I use the more tag it displays everything that comes before the more tag under the property.
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Dec 26, 2011 18:05
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Omits-Bagels posted:On my homepage I have property teasers for each property. When I use the more tag it displays everything that comes before the more tag under the property. That is how the read more tag is supposed to work. Should you be using the_excerpt() instead?
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Dec 27, 2011 02:18
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Quick question: I had to implement a Facebook newsfeed plugin in a few of my client's sites. I'm currently using JSL3 Facebook Wall Feed but was wondering if there are any other recommended plugins for this purpose. Also, I had never noticed that twentyeleven had a dark theme. I modded it a bit and am using it for my personal site. It looks purty.
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Hello thread. Very new to Wordpress. I'm trying to figure out the easiest photo gallery plugin to use for a site, among other things. Right now, for the majority of the site I'm running Perch, and this page is powered by ZenPhoto, but I really want to get all of the functionality unified under a single CMS so it's easy to update. The owner wants to be able to drop a photo gallery in on any random page, as well as the primary photo gallery page, so something that just lets an album be dropped in on a page seems ideal. Anyone have any recommendations?
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Dec 29, 2011 18:37
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I've never used Wordpress before, but I've been brought on as the sole developer of a startup website that's using Wordpress. Now, my boss has had a bad split with the former coders, and while I have access to /var and can modify all the php files, nobody has an admin account on Wordpress. Is there a backdoor way to create one? VVVVVV good idea, thanks VVVVVV Large Hardon Collider fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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Dec 31, 2011 05:16
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Go into the database and modify the user table so that the admin account has an e-mail address you have access to. Then ask it to reset the password associated with that e-mail.
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Do you all know of a good wordpress image slider to use as a slideshow? I have one built in to my current theme but for some reason it doesn't work on my pages. I just need something that cycles through 5-6 images.
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Omits-Bagels posted:Do you all know of a good wordpress image slider to use as a slideshow? I have one built in to my current theme but for some reason it doesn't work on my pages. I just need something that cycles through 5-6 images. I've had all of these recommended to me: Meteor Slides NextGen Gallery WP Cycle SlideDeck Chop Slider 2 I've used NextGen as a gallery, but never a slider. My main go-to is WP Cycle, though the caveat is you can only use it once (like on your homepage/landing page) on your site. I haven't tried any of the others but would be interested to hear from anyone who has.
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Dec 31, 2011 18:43
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Omits-Bagels posted:Do you all know of a good wordpress image slider to use as a slideshow? I have one built in to my current theme but for some reason it doesn't work on my pages. I just need something that cycles through 5-6 images. My favorite is the Nivo Slider (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/). They have an official plugin for Wordpress that you can purchase, or you can find numerous free ones on the Wordpress plugins directory.
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So I'm not sure if I made a mistake by not using a child theme. I had someone customize a premium theme and I simply installed the customized theme. Since then I've also made very minor changes to my theme directly through the wordpress editor. I just learned about child themes and I wonder if I should have set up a child theme just incase the base theme ever gets updated (and I'm sure there are other reasons to use a child theme). Have I set myself up for trouble down the road? VerySolidSnake posted:My favorite is the Nivo Slider (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/). They have an official plugin for Wordpress that you can purchase, or you can find numerous free ones on the Wordpress plugins directory.
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What's a good plugin for allowing users to report comments as inappropriate? All the ones I've found haven't been updated in years and either have very little functionality or don't even work.
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Jan 1, 2012 20:39
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Large Hardon Collider posted:What's a good plugin for allowing users to report comments as inappropriate? All the ones I've found haven't been updated in years and either have very little functionality or don't even work. I personally use Disqus (and it has that feature), but it might be overkill. Hopefully this isn't against the rules, but I wanted to cross-post from the jobs thread: my employer is hiring for a web developer position (mostly Wordpress) and I know a lot of you would be a good fit. Location is Austin, TX but we're open to remote workers.
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sim posted:I personally use Disqus (and it has that feature), but it might be overkill. More suggestions would be very much appreciated!
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I'm currently trying to use the mediaelement.js plugin for wordpress. Wordpress 3.3.1 Mediaelement.js 2.5.0 However, whenever I view it, in Firefox, Chrome, Safari... it always shows two players. One of them is nonfunctional, and the other says "loading" until you click play, and then it starts (probably due to preloading off on that issue). I've tried disabling all my other plugins in wordpress, as well as extensions/plugins in my browsers that could interfere. I have the same problem regardless of whether it is audio or video. I have tried using the both the script and the shortcodes, and both create this result. Here's an example of what it looks like when the audio isn't working: 
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Jan 5, 2012 00:44
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I have a wordpress blog that I moved over from shared hosting to a VPS to handle a temporary rush in holiday traffic. When I did the move I simply moved the entire site directory and imported the old sql database into the new server. I want to move this site back to the old shared hosting, but would like to retain the few new posts and content since the move without creating any duplicates. Should I just move the directory and sql database back again, or would wordpress's built in import/export tools be able to handle this without duping posts and pages?
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Jan 5, 2012 21:41
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FCKGW posted:I have a wordpress blog that I moved over from shared hosting to a VPS to handle a temporary rush in holiday traffic. When I did the move I simply moved the entire site directory and imported the old sql database into the new server. I would start the shared hosting again with a clean slate. Delete and files and directories, clear the database. Then make a full backup on the VPS, and install it all back on the shared.
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Jan 5, 2012 21:48
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VerySolidSnake posted:I would start the shared hosting again with a clean slate. Delete and files and directories, clear the database. Then make a full backup on the VPS, and install it all back on the shared. That sounds perfect, thanks.
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For some reason, pagination is screwed up on my site. When you click a number, you get redirected to a post whose title starts with that number. Anyone know what might be up with that?
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Jan 7, 2012 18:04
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Rebuild your permalinks?
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Does anyone know of a free theme that is similar to this one?
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Ned posted:Rebuild your permalinks? http://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-rebuild-action
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I am having some video issues with a new wordpress site and the iPhone app. Basically my iPhone videos aren't cross browser compatible when the .mov files are uploaded from the app itself. I've tried both the html 5 & 4 options and neither works for me in FF or older versions of IE. I tried several video player plugins, but nothing has worked properly. JW Player is the only one that actually plays the movies but the size is wrong and I haven't figured out a way to rotate the videos (it isn't picking up the exif data.) This is my first time administering wordpress, so it certainly could be something I am doing wrong. Here are the plugins that I have tried: Blubrry PowerPress Degradable HTML5 audio and video html5-video-only JW Player Plugin for WP MediaElement.jsMobileMe Movie PRO Player VideoJS Pro Viper's Video Quicktags I am running WordPress 3.3.1 and the iPhone application is the latest version. I checked the WP IOS forum and several posts about similar problems, but VideoPress was the only mentioned solution. I am not even sure if that will work but if it is the only workaround, I'll consider paying for it. Has anyone else run across this issue and come up with a workaround? Ideally I would be able to upload directly from the iPhone app and just have it work with older browsers with no extra steps on the uploading end or the end users part. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Quick simple one, is there any way to add a message to the admin centre so I can set something up there to let the other authors know about something? I'm being kind of vague, I'll use an example. On my site I want to have a style guide that the authors can refer to before publishing a post. I thought maybe a private page would work, but I want a way to shove it in their face when they log in. That way if I ever need to notify them all of something, I can simply update the message and they'll see it when they log in. Any plugins about that will do this? Writing it out like that, it seems like it should be easy to find something but my Google fu is failing me completely. Edit: Another question, I've just implement the Disqus commenting system but I've noticed it doesn't support commenting as a Wordpress User, so the Authors and I have to login through other channels to comment, or reply or whatever. Anyone know if there's a way to integrate the two, so commenting as a Wordpress User is also possible, just as an additional option? putin is a cunt fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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Gnack posted:Quick simple one, is there any way to add a message to the admin centre so I can set something up there to let the other authors know about something? I'm being kind of vague, I'll use an example. This plugin is a little old but should work - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-global-message/
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This was touched on slightly further up the page but I'm after a specific feature so I'll bring it back up. I'm remaking an existing (non-wordpress) site into a wordpress version for a client. It's pretty straight forward and something I've done dozens of times. However the current site has an image slider on the homepage with a row of thumbnails down the side that can be clicked to navigate through the slider. I've used half a dozen different sliders of the years but I've never used one with a feature like that, and after 30 minutes on google and looking at demos I can't seem to find one either. The slides don't have to tie into posts or anything like that. It's just a straight forward image slider for a homepage (and potentially another page on the site). But it's something the client is insisting on, so...
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kdevil II posted:I am having some video issues with a new wordpress site and the iPhone app. Basically my iPhone videos aren't cross browser compatible when the .mov files are uploaded from the app itself. I've tried both the html 5 & 4 options and neither works for me in FF or older versions of IE. Disclaimer: I build VideoPress. The problem, as you've discovered, is that a bunch of browsers don't support embedding videos directly into pages, instead you need a service to convert the video to an appropriate format and load a Flash video player for it. You have a few options: Host your own video service. This is hard, I don't recommend it. Use a free service, such as YouTube. The disadvantage is ads, primarily. Use a paid service, such as VideoPress or Vimeo. Every service has advantages and disadvantages, it's kind of up to you to decide what you prefer.
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Pento McGreno posted:Disclaimer: I build VideoPress. drat I was hoping to hear a different answer. Thank you very much for your response and expertise. I guess I can always just convert these to flv manually in premiere and use the longtail player. I was just hoping for a dead simple one step upload from phone option. Stupid .mov files. Thanks again!
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I just set up a new VPS for my site and its making good income now, so I figure I need to get to fixing its theme up. I really want to start with Roots, I love the Grid system and I love everything it does, but I don't like the whole rewrite to /css/. There any other good boilerplate themes like Roots?
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Is there a widget (or way) to take a post from a category, and have it show up in a sidebar on another page formatted the same way so it is readable? I have some workouts that get posted every day - http://genesis-ap.com/category/superhuman-workout/ I would like the most recent workout to get posted in this sidebar - http://genesis-ap.com/project-superhuman/ in a way that people can read it straight from that page with it still looking good.
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Alfalfa posted:Is there a widget (or way) to take a post from a category, and have it show up in a sidebar on another page formatted the same way so it is readable? I had a little look around, and couldn't see a widget that does this. As a workaround, install the PHP Code Widget plugin, and create a widget with this content: php:<?php $q = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'category_name' => 'superhuman-workout' ); $posts = get_posts( $q ); if ( ! empty( $posts ) ) echo wpautop( $posts[0]->post_content ); ?> This also relies upon you to make posts that will fit nicely into the widget space - it does no sanity checking at all.
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Is there a widget or plug in or something that, when attempting to post a comment, will allow a user to select from a list of options? (i.e. if one of the options is "Abraham Lincoln', the user will post as Abraham Lincoln)
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Mr Interweb posted:Is there a widget or plug in or something that, when attempting to post a comment, will allow a user to select from a list of options? (i.e. if one of the options is "Abraham Lincoln', the user will post as Abraham Lincoln) Try Disqus.
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Wordpress-ish question. I've used bbpress a few times with WP, and the 2.0 is nice(r), but I'm looking for a dead simple forum that I can use Facebook/Google connect with, so I don't have to have a set of logins if I don't want them. Preferably with WP integration. There's the 'simple facebook connect' plugin for bbpress, but it isn't great. Or if it is, I haven't figured out how to make it great. I don't want to have a wordpress login screen for the average user. Thoughts?
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Greetings, thread. Is Associated Posts Pro (http://wpplugins.com/plugin/247/associated-posts-pro/) the best plugin for easily putting posts from specific categories on pages? The idea is to use it with the Restrict categories plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-categories/) to let some users have their own blog/news feed.
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