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HELP! WordPress is driving me crazy!!!

by Michael Oksa
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Howdy Warriors,

So...I have to humbly admit I don't know all that much about WP. It's just not something I've really gotten into as I tend to use an HTML WYSIWYG for my pages.

However, I'm doing a blog for my life's passion - ROCK AND ROLL - but, I am having a few problems. Namely:

1. How do I get the FULL post for ALL posts on the home page? I tried selecting "Full text" under Settings > Reading > "For each article in a feed, show" >

I know that's for an RSS feed, but how can I do it for the home page?

2. I tried changing the size of the header image, but now there is a big gap between the bottom of the image and the start of the content. How do I get rid of that gap?

3. Is there a a way to make the "Categories" column display the number of posts that are under that category. I had the blog running at Blogger and I liked that aspect of it.

Do I have to go through each post on WP and re-add the tags? Because right now it looks like they were imported as "categories" and not "tags".

4. How can I get rid of the red title box, and subtitle in the upper left? I would rather put text over the header image (THAT I know how to do )

Any help you can offer would be awesome!

The original blog can be found at Rock and Roll Decades
The new one (the one I need help with) is: Rock And Roll Decades

Rock on!
Michael

MODS: I'm not selling anything, just trying to get specific help for my blog.
#carazay #crazy #driving #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author MichelleGreene
    Hi Michael, nice blog..

    It seems that the theme you're using MAY have a plugin that uses the limit post to a few lines.

    check the plugins to see if you are using a limit post and if so, you can try to deactivate it. This may allow the complete post to show.

    In the style sheet, look for the height of the header and use the height of your header image as the new height.

    For categories, maybe you can use the widget and this way, you can choose the post count.

    Hope some of this helps,
    Michelle
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    1. Yeah, that setting is for feeds only, so leave it alone.
    Whether you have full posts or excerpts (or posts with "read more" link) is defined by your theme. Try to switch to default or classic and see if they do what you want.

    2. Changing just size of the image withuot adjusting the size of the container div in the stylesheet... usually is not enough.

    3. Yes. If you have the categories displayed by the CAt widgets - you have an option for it.

    4. Not familiar with the theme... but probably will have to edit the header.php file in the theme folder and remove that div with grid_16 and h1.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Thanks Michelle and Istvan!

    Your advice got rid of that odd spacing problem.

    Now on to the others!

    Oh...

    One more thing...

    If I want to get rid of the top box that has the blog name in it (red with a white + ), how do I link the header image to the home page? That way it won't matter what link people follow, they will get back home by clicking the image.

    And how to get rid of the top nav bar?

    Anybody?



    Rock on!
    Michael
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    "Ich bin en fuego!"
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    • Profile picture of the author Harrison Ortega
      Hi Michael, to get the full post, open up the index.php and find this line of code:
      PHP Code:
       <?php the_excerpt('<strong>Read More..</strong>'); ?>
      and replace with this:
      PHP Code:
       <?php the_content('<strong>Read More..</strong>'); ?>
      .

      To get rid of the top navbar, open up header.php and delete this code:
      HTML Code:
       <ul>
    <li><a <?php if (is_home()) echo('class="current" '); ?>href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">Home</a></li>
    <?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>
  </ul>
      Hope that helps.

      Harrison
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