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Need help with Wordpress!

by EthanDenney
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Hi Warriors,

I need your help! :-)

I've been trying to figure out how Michel Fortin has modified his blog/wordpress theme the way he has and...

I haven't had much luck yet.

There are two parts he modified or added to the theme that I really like and I want to know how to do the same to my blog.

If you go to Michel fortin . com (<-that's all together. I just don't have enough posts yet to put links.) you'll see what looks like a featured post box at the top, yet it's not. It's some type of html box.

Then, between his normal blog posts, there are mini posts that have pictures of reports on them and when clicked, send you to sales pages.

How does he do it???

Is there a plugin for these things?

I appreciate any help you guys can give me!

Thanks,

Ethan
#wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author tjmiller
    I'm not by any means a Wordpress pro or anything, but just looking at that site, and not seeing the back end (admin) section of it, this would be my guess:

    Those sections you are referring to look like they might be boxes for advertising, for example, to put Adsense blocks in. He has instead used them to link to other things that he wants to promote. Very smart, actually.

    Once again, that is a guess, based upon the location and size of the blocks that he is using. There are a lot of themes that allow you specific ad blocks like that, and you just plug in your (usually) adsense code. It really makes more sense to use it this way. I like it.

    Hope this helps,
    Teresa
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    • Profile picture of the author EthanDenney
      You may be right Teresa.

      Thanks for taking the time to respond.

      I'm a little confused on how he did it. The fact that you can highlight the text within those boxes makes me believe they're not adsense blocks.

      It's probably some type of php code that allows him to have editable html boxes in those spots.

      How he did it is still a mystery to me though lol.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Morgan
        You can do this with a wordpress plugin that utilizes hooks. Check out:

        Writing a Plugin WordPress Codex

        You will need some PHP knowledge though. But it's not anything that's incredibly complicated if you have the patience.
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  • Profile picture of the author MichelFortin
    Ethan, it's a plugin called "Greet Box" or WP-GreetBox. It's completely styllable (is that a word? LOL!) with CSS, as the whole panel is wrapped in multiple DIV tags. I use it to post completely customized welcome messages.

    WordPress › WP Greet Box WordPress Plugins
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    • Profile picture of the author jminkler
      Find a wordpress pro quick at WP Questions these guys are wordpress geniuses
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