hi there!

 

i have installed wordpress on my site, and i would like to use it for one page only; as a blog page. i need to know how to do this as a customer has asked me to as well.

 

I have the blank wordpress page open in front of me, ready to edit, but when i preview the page it comes up as my index.html page, even though i hit 'add page' and made it a blog page.

 

I'm really lost here, and just want to create one page as a blog page for my site.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

hi there!

 

i have installed wordpress on my site, and i would like to use it for one page only; as a blog page. i need to know how to do this as a customer has asked me to as well.

 

I have the blank wordpress page open in front of me, ready to edit, but when i preview the page it comes up as my index.html page, even though i hit 'add page' and made it a blog page.

 

I'm really lost here, and just want to create one page as a blog page for my site.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

I don't know if I fully understand your question but heres my answer.

 

Setting>>Reading>>Front page displays>> Set as your latest posts.

 

Then create posts as opposed to pages.

 

Does this answer your question?

Hi nelly, I have a website. And i have a host that has wordpress. I install wordpress onto my site using fantastico. All is well, all the wordpress files come up. I access using http://cybadesign.co.za/wp-admin. It takes me to the wordpress place where i can edit pages. but i don't know what page i am editing. I don't know how to link a page that i create here to my site. And when i write something simple in the space provided and preview, it shows my index.html page for my site.

 

all i want is to make one page called blog and use wordpress because then i can make it into a blog page.

 

I don't know how to tell wordpress that i want to edit the blog page, cos i can't find it or link to it. It says that the page id is id-4.

You dont edit/add pages.

 

You need to add Posts.

 

These will display on the blog page. (index.php)

 

Hope that helps.

 

Also, if your trying to install wordpress alongside your original website, you will need to install it into a sub-folder.

 

/blog/ for example.

hi there! Thank you so much for getting back to me!

 

I have installed it in with my main website. I can change it i suppose - why would this be necessary?

 

I have had a bit of luck. I changed the permalink name to /blog. Then i linked it to my index page with the full link, http://www.cybadesign.co.za/blog.

 

Then when i clicked on the link it took me to my newly created wordpress blog page! I am so ecstatic to get this far!!! Jeepers!

 

Then i copied the whole of my original blog page that i was making and pasted it into the wordpress code area, and incredibly, it came up and looked the same-ish; but a bit messed up.

 

Shew!

 

So, what i need to do now is to configure the layout properly. My page used html, css and jquery. THe jquery is working, the css is obviously trying to, but there seems to be layout settings in wordpress that are messing with it. Wondering how to work this all out.

 

Is there .css file in the classic themes interupting my .css file perhaps?

there should be a css file specific to that theme. in the themes/classic/ folder.

Have you altered the html in the header.php/index.php/sidebar.php and footer.php files?

Check this tut out: TUT.

 

If you use Firefox and Firebug you can see the coding of the site.

Yeah, I have found those .css files, and i know css quite well. I can see that they are interfereing with my page layout, but not sure how.

 

oh wow! That link you gave me is the answer to all of my next questions! Thank you! Time for some coffee!!!!

No probs. Good luck and come back if u need help!

i dont' know what i've done to my css file. i didn't edit anything in them, just moved stuff around and then this came up

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function home_url() in /home/cybadesi/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/header.php on line 41

 

So, I deleted the default theme off my server and reloaded it from wordpress site, and it is giving the same error. Any ideas?

i dont' know what i've done to my css file. i didn't edit anything in them, just moved stuff around and then this came up

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function home_url() in /home/cybadesi/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/header.php on line 41

 

So, I deleted the default theme off my server and reloaded it from wordpress site, and it is giving the same error. Any ideas?

 

Deleting wordpress, starting again with fresh copy then follow the tut from there!

When you install this time, install on a seperate directory

When you install this time, install on a seperate directory

 

yeah, i've just done that!

yeah, i've just done that!

 

yes!yes!yes!yes!yes! This time, the default theme comes up fine! YAY, and thank you to you!!!!

hi! I'm having trouble with a plug in. I've successfully installed comment image embedder into wordpress, and activated it. What i can't figure out is how do i get it to show up on a page? I looked in my widgets to see if it had created a new widget that i can just throw in there, but, it doesn't show up there.

 

Im quite sure all those plugins come with an extensive documentation on how to use them (or at least a readme guide on how things work, if its too simple)

Make sure you check it

I think that i have to install it and then put it into the code.

Have you created a post that the user can comment on?

Have you created a post that the user can comment on?

 

Yes, I'm in the process of doing that. I had to install the plug in from the wordpress interface, and i also had to copy and paste the coe into my page where i wanted it to go, and that worked. I'm in the process of looking for a plug in that allows users to upload images from their pc and write a message, but only got one that uploads from a url so far. Shew! Lots of php bussing in my head!