weblines

Aiming for this structure for my "typical" website:- Updatable home page - top level Other "static" pages such as about, contact, links, services - these are the second level items Perhaps some sub-pages to the static pages, such as detail about individual services - these would be third level Blog - also a second ...

If you have been following these posts, you'll have seen that my home page has looked rather fragmented for a day.  I have been experimenting with the layout:-  copying a theme and then modifying it for my own use creating a new home page template, based on the index page but modified creating a new footer creating a new post template, called post1, which will show on the home page only In fact, it was errors in the new home and post1 templates which have caused the fragmented look.   I made my first set of changes and uploaded them with a reasonable degree of (misplaced!) confidence and no time to test and fix. So, we have now swapped back to the original index page and now I will work through things slowly, so that I catch any errors I introduce....

What I want to do here is to include an admin link. And then see if, when you click on it, it will allow/force a login and then take you directly to the edit page that I have selected ...

Reading lots of the WordPress lessons and finding out how to do a few things as I go.  I've now made my Links page work by use of templates, enabled inclusion of email address without typing it in and discovered how to split a post.

If you've been following this progress, you'll have seen that I have been changing the "theme" of the website frequently.  This is to try out different looks and see how easy it is decide which theme is the most comprehensive to use as a basis for my "typical" website I've been working through ...