So I was working on my recipe page, which is going well, but the one thing I can’t figure out is how to “highlight” the links to each recipe, right now they are just a list and I am worried that they don’t look like links. Any thougths / suggestions? Maybe there is plug-in I am not aware of…
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Megan Edwards
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Angelo Fernandez
Found to great sites for PHP help and tutorials. The first one, http://devzone.zend.com/article/627 is for beginners who need to catch up on all the PHP stuff we’ve done like me. And this site http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php.html looks to have everything you’d ever want to know about PHP. Hope it’s useful for some of yall
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Adrian Y. Chen
Thanks a lot! I’ve been trying to find tutorials like these ones.
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Wilkerz
this probably would have saved a little bit of frustration on my part, but still very helpful even after the assignment
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Daryl Hansen
Awesome! This is a great resource! Thanks for posting this, since it will help alot with the changes I am planning for my site.
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Harrison M.
SEO recommends making permalinks /%category%/%postname%/. Wordpress documentation strongly discourages it. Who’s right?
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abfsra
I would say it depends on what your site is about and how much you’ve got going on. I for example will be writing everything as /%postname%/ at first but once I start getting enough content to make categories a relevant object I’ll probably change them
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Drew
“For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs, and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start your permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID.”
Seems to be an issue of performance vs. visibility… I think that if the site is small and not expected to take on outrageous growth the performance issues will be minimal and therefore dismissible.
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meganmccrae
I went with category/postname, but my home page is only a landing page and the page names are the category names… but maybe I should look into this more…
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Daryl Hansen
I think that even with the costs to performance, what you gain in SEO and readability are worth the compromise. However, I don’t know how long it takes to reroute all of the information server-side, so I guess that I wouldn’t know… The other thing to consider is that the post name could also be really long, so you may not gain much in readability or length.
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David Petty
Help. Please.
Okay so I followed bluehosts vid for installing wordpress, i get wp all installed and then when I try to log in – it just shows a godaddy ad page – it won’t let me log in to my site? Am I supposed to be linking WP install to my domain name or to a wordpress page? I’m all sorts of confused.
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Randy Hoyt
You haven’t set your domain at GoDaddy to point to your server at Bluehost. You need to change the nameservers.
1. Log in at Godaddy.
2. Click on “My Domains” or “Domain Manager” or something like that.
3. Click on your domain name.
4. Click on “Nameservers.”
5. The last option is probably already selected, something like “I want to host this domain elsewhere.”
6. Add NS1.BLUEHOST.COM and NS2.BLUEHOST.COM as the nameservers.
7. Save these changes.
8. Wait for the changes to propagate: this will probably just take an hour or so, but it could take as many as 48 hours. -
neweye
Worked perfectly! thanks Randy.
Now I’m trying to upload a theme. Can I request ‘digital farm’ from your woo vault? or am I just missing it on elearning?
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Randy Hoyt
Digital Farm is now in eLearning for you. I’ll need to get the documentation in there for you, but I can’t seem to access their site right now. I’ll add that soon.
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David Petty
Hey everyone I could really use some solid insight from yall concerning my site – I’m trying to figure out a good blog theme to use. My two options that I’m considering are near the bottom of my post and highlighted as links so if you could leave a comment on which one you like more that’d be great! http://bit.ly/d1HyXG
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Drew
hey david, I prefer the papercut theme– digital farm has a lot going on on the home page otherwise I liked it.
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Angelo Fernandez
On the FTP activity is anyone else having trouble with the Prometheus image? I open my HTML on my computer and it works but when I put it on my Bluehost site the image is gone and the alternate texts is there, any suggestions?
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Randy Hoyt
There are two ways to specify the src attribute for the img element.
(1) Absolute — You could list the full web address for the image, starting with http://
(2) Relative — You could list the file name or folder structure in relation to the HTML file, something like images/prometheus.jpg
I’m guessing you saved the HTML file down from your blog, right? When you did this, the browser also downloaded the image and saved it in a folder called [MythologyPart2_files]. Check the source of your HTML, and you’ll see that folder as part of the src attribute for the image. There are two ways to fix it, related to each of the two ways for specifying the src:
(1) You could edit your HTML file to point to the absolute web address for the file. (I think that’s what you did originally, but the browser changed that when you downloaded it from your blog.)
(2) You could upload the folder and the image file to your web server in the same folder/file structure relationship that you have on your computer.
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abfsra
I just uploaded the image to my domain in the atec3361 directory so I can link to it without worrying about what’s happening on other sites. Thanks a lot, quick and easy fix
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Angelo Fernandez
Anyone know of any scanners on campus? I drew up a bunch of ideas/skeletons for my site on paper and I wanna upload em now. Thanks in advance.
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Meagan Buchanan
I’m pretty sure there is one in the kitchen lab in the atec building. There is one in the Johnson comp lab as well
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Randy Hoyt
The library has a copy machine that allows you to scan something and email the results to yourself as a PDF.
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neweye
I recommend the kitchen lab one – the lab techs are always super helpful in assisting with specific projects.
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Harrison M.
What’s everyone using for FTP clients? I’m using the FireFTP Firefox extension, but I’m a bit wary of it for security reasons.
My main concerns are stability and how it stores my passwords. I was using Filezilla until I discovered it was saving my passwords as plaintext.-
William Lanier
i’ve always used the FTP on the hosting control panel…however, one time I used Fetch…which is pretty fun and easy.
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Carol Welker
Harrison….I’ve been using Fetch for years. It used to be free, but I don’t think it is anymore. I don’t think it’s too expensive though. It’s always nice to have it around when you need to upload something to your website. There are also programs that come with ftp capabilities. Dreamweaver is one of them. I think Photoshop CS4 may include an ftp function now, but I’ll have to double check.
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Harrison M.
Fetch is pretty nice. And, unfortunately, Mac-only.
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Angelo Fernandez
I see that Mr. Hoyt has purchased the CSS Editor so i’m wondering if you could help me make my widgets appear on a second column on the side of my blogs instead of the bottom of my pages on my other blog: http://abfsra.wordpress.com/ If this is something you’d have to do in person with me logging in i’d understand and i’ll see you in class tomorrow
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Randy Hoyt
I gave everyone the ability to add custom CSS to their themes. Inside your WordPress Dashboard, click on Appearance > Custom CSS. You can type whatever CSS rules you want in that box to modify your theme. We’ll start covering CSS in class during Week 05 (February 12).
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Angelo Fernandez
i was looking at free wordpress themes and i was able to download a few but i don’t know how to get them from my computer to my wordpress account, could anybody help? maybe one of those videos with the English bloke
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Randy Hoyt
You actually don’t get to add new themes to your course blog: you have to choose from 70+ themes I picked out for you. But don’t worry: when you get your own hosting account and install WordPress on it later in the semester, you’ll be able to add any of those themes to your site.
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Drew
I was able to set up a theme, 70 is plenty to choose from.
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Daryl Hansen 9:47 pm on April 11, 2010 Permalink
I took a look at the recipes section, and didnt feel that it was confusing that they were links. But changing the color or underlining the links might help. The title color and the link’s color is the same, so that might be confusing. However, I think that pictures with the titles or highlighting 2 or 3 recipes would be the best route to give idea that they are links. Just some thoughts.
Harrison M. 10:02 pm on April 11, 2010 Permalink
Your best bet would be to go into your CSS files and template code and either change the link color and possibly underline them if it fits with your style.
Including excerpts (recipe descriptions) and photos (I think you can do this in your settings if you’re using the category page) would help too.
Randy Hoyt 7:10 am on April 13, 2010 Permalink
The list of recipes is an unordered list of links, so it might be worthwhile to change the CSS to add bullets or something. You have added
class="recipes"to the list, you can make this list look different than the other lists on the site.