[David Cook]

Can you use wordpress if u aint that goood at php?


As i am having problems trying to amend things as not so good at php.

any help or tips on how to do it.

thanks

[welshhuw]

David Cook, on 07 February 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

Can you use wordpress if u aint that goood at php?


As i am having problems trying to amend things as not so good at php.

any help or tips on how to do it.

thanks

Hi,

I use WordPress in almost all my projects. It's great to use, and you can edit the HTML and CSS of theme's if you want. medling with the PHP is fun and you will learn as you go along.

Google for whatever PHP snippet you may need - there's plenty of tuts out there.

[David Cook]

Hi

I got a theme i want to use. However I have amended some in the wordpress admin, but cant change any of the text. All the files are php and not sure how to edit them with the text I want.

Thanks

[funsella]

If you are unsure of what file you need to edit you could always give us a link and we could steer you in the rite direction

[brightonmike]

The text will either be hardcoded into the files, in which case you edit the same as you would with HTML - or it's handled using theme tags, in which case you can look up in the Wordpress Codex what the tags are used for and then you can figure out how they're changed.

I would recommend you do not replace tags with hard coded text.

[David Cook]

my site is active at www.davidcook.me

the theme is there and i have amended some that i could using the admin section.


When i look at the editor i have all the files down the right hand side.

but if i click them they only show the tags.

can someone look and let me know if they can.

thanks

[brightonmike]

Don't use the Wordpress editor. Use your normal editor on your PC.

[David Cook]

ok, i got dreamweaver and notepad++ but if i open document in there it still shows all the tags, and doesnt show the text to edit.

hope that makes sense.

[brightonmike]

What do you mean by tags? Can you give an example?

[David Cook]

when i get home i will upload on of the files so you can have a look at what i mean.

[oakleaves]

@David Cook

If you are going to start editing files via notepad++ you need to get at least a basic understanding of PHP.

[brightonmike]

http://devzone.zend....olute-beginner/

[David Cook]

here is one of the files, all the others are the same

Attached File(s)

•  index.php (4.35K)
  Number of downloads: 6

[futuresys]

I use Wordpress for nearly all of my projects that aren't e-Commerce based and my knowledge of PHP is very minimal. I'm no good at writing my own PHP code/functions etc but through studying the Wordpress functions and the things they use I taught myself to understand how it all works. Now, 4 months down the line I can comfortably edit and amend the Wordpress PHP without still having much knowledge of the language at all.

Just stick with it.

[funsella]

@ David, I am a little confused about what you are trying to do.

Its hard to help you find this text that you want to change when I dont know what you want to change.

For example if you want to remove something from your header you would look in the header.php file and not the index.
But that is only if you are looking to remove something that is "hard coded" into the theme.

I am guessing who ever developed this theme has made it so that its easy to replace stuff, so have you looked in all the options of the theme for what you want to remove/replace.

go through all the content types (pages and post) and if there are more that the theme has put in go through all of those too. Then delete all the pages if its still there you can restore the pages.

Go to the widgets and and remove all the widgets if there arnt any widgets add a widget. Some themes have "hard coded" widgets in them and they "go away" when you add a widget of your own.

If you cant find it you may want to take a screenshot of the piece you are having problems with, circle it with a red pen and post it so we can see exactly what is giving you problems. Then we can start to help you with this.

[David Cook]

can someone have a look at my site. My link

On the hoe page, the title on browser says portfolio how would i change that?

Also on the services page.

I want it to be 3 colums, With a picture at the top of each colum and then text underneath, - any ideas.

thanks

[Renaissance-Design]

Title: depends on your theme and plugins.

Changing format of a page: means either putting some structural markup in the Write panel, or extensively hacking the admin interface.

[David Cook]

i dont have any plugins only what the standard ones were.

i dont understand what u mean?

[Renaissance-Design]

The <title> displayed for a pge will depend on whether the theme has added a field for it (or if you have an SEO plugin).

Otherwise what it displays depends on what sort of page template is in use.

[AmityWeb]

I know it has a price tag, but we use Expression Engine a lot instead of Wordpress because you can build your own templates without even seeing PHP code anywhere. Whereas building Worpdress themes may be more complicated for someone with little PHP knownledge. Expression Engine will use purely HTML/CSS then its own tagging systen to get the content from the DB which I think may be easier to understand. Wordpress is good if you want to use a pre-built template and not modify it, and I find EE better if you wanted to build your own template. Hope I dont start any CMS wars, we use both and love them both, they both have their own strengths but for the purpose of building a custom template I think EE would be easier if you dont have the PHP knowledge! But if you have spent a lot of time on WP already then may as well carry on!
Thanks

[junior]

The title is usually pulled in by the PHP from whatever you have called the site in the Settings tab.

The page looks like it does as Wordpress uses a database for the content and other aspects of the pages. This is called for by the PHP and as such most of the pages aren't the same as HTML pages. All the pages however will be referenced somewhere in the codes as Brightonmike said use the Wordpress codex on Wordpress.org to understand the site a little bit more.

[jamesosix]

OP your not talking about adding content to your site are you? Generally once you have a theme you like, you just go ahead and create a new page, add the content and style it how you see fit, save it, then add it via the "menus" option.

Unless you actually want to change the theme itself...in which case thats beyond me other than re-skinning it with new images