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Just been away for a 6-week holiday and seen some great sights. And many of those great places to visit have some beautiful and informative websites. Have a look at:- The Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London The Glasgow Science Centre in, of course, Glasgow The Scottish Crannog Centre (did you know people used to live in amazing contraptions…
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You have the look you want for your website…. but it’s just not doing enough for you. It’s time to add…. new pages or sections on your website an easily updateable blog a photo gallery an online shop or store a cms, which allows you to easily update website content yourself some interactive elements on your pages an…
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A long time ago, in the olden days, people in villages and towns didn’t have the vast array of choices which we do today. When the wanted some clothes, they had to make do with what they could make or pay a friend to make. When they wanted to find an apprenticeship for their son,…
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Which function is the simplest and most versatile when you want to include extracts rather than entire posts on pages?
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I want to explore whether to show whole posts or selected extracts of posts. This applies to what I shall call a Group page – any page which shows a set of posts rather than a single post (Category pages or Archive pages or the Blog index page).
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Having dug into the documentation and solved some mysteries regarding the header of the Default theme and the version of code used in the Connections theme, I’ve made a lot of progress with that list of early first steps.
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I’ve dug more deeply into the WordPress code and documentation and I’ve learned the importance of knowing which version you are reading about v which version you are using
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I want to set up a template specifically for the Growing a Website category, which shows items in date order (oldest first) rather than reverse date order (newest first). First, I need to create a category template with the name category-n.php (where n is the numeric id of the particular category, found by looking at the…
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A few things I want to test and do on this website: Edit the templates – single, archive, category, post(?) to make the layout more like I want. In particular, I want to remove references to comments and “posted by” and just show which category something is in (and also, perhaps, date and time). Done, for…
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Now it’s time to get the look and the layout of the home page just right. The home page can be static, in that its content can be changed by editing via the admin section only, or it can be dynamic, in that all or part of it can be updated whenever a post is added…