Help With Wordpress

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Hi Members,

I have recently ditched my Joomla site and gone over to Wordpress which seems a lot more user friendly. I have a backend or blogdev as it is called and am getting my head around the widgets and side bars ok but my question is this.

When I post an article or add any text it uploads immediately but when I add a banner or text link to one of my side bars it only saves to my backend but not the frontend. I am using filezilla at the moment but don't know the correct way to copy and paste over to the front end without messing up the files as I need to do this manually I gather to upload any changes to the frontend. Can anyone give me a step by step guide on how to do this.

many thanks,

Mal.
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    • Are you hard coding the ads into the sidebar.php? Is this what you are saying? Perhaps you have the code wrong. It is different for different themes. Easiest way to add an ad to your sidebar is via the text widget.

      If you are trying to add to your sidebar.php, look at how it's structured. Put your banner ads in the images folder and use something like this should do:

      Code:
      <a href="http://youradurl.com target=_top"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/yourimagename.extension" alt="whatever" /></a>
      See if that works for you. More information on the problem would be helpful.
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  • wordpress is definitely simpler than joomla

    what exactly are you trying to achieve? i specialize in wordpress customization and seo for wordpress. as a result i rank on first page of google for "wordpress seo expert"
  • Mal it looks like you have two different and separate WordPress installations.
    One here: NetWorldGateway
    and another here: NetWorldGateway.com

    Look at the URLS, they are different...

    I suggest you get that part straightened out by whoever installed these for you.
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    • Hi Jeff,

      Thanks for your feedback, the .com bit I removed from the blogdev1 backend control area which is what you are seeing and is my test area or blogdev1. The blogdev1 is what was set up for me to change and experiment with wordpress until I was ready to upload any changes. The .com version is my current frontend as it is showing to visitors which is what I am trying to sort out because I don't want the .com to show.

      They are not two installations, just the test area and the uploaded area of the same blog installation or at least that's as I understand it. All I am trying to do is find out how to make my blogdev1 (or test area) changes to take effect on the frontend mainsite. I will change the blogdev1 back to show the .com so you see what I mean. Any changes I make to the blog title or posts that I make are updated on my test page as well as the frontend main site immediately but not so with the side widgets, they only change on the test area version.

      cheers,

      Mal.
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  • I was thinking that while you have two different WP installs you might be using the same database for both and that is why some of the content is showing up on both.

    Either way sounds like a bit of mess you got there and it would be hard for a forum to figure it all out. Some one that knows their stuff would need to poke around the blogs and the database to see what is really going on.
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    • Hi Everyone,

      Thank you all for taking the trouble to reply with advice, I really appreciate it. You will have gathered that I am not a techy but have taken on board all your suggestions and will see what I can do.

      thanks again,

      Mal.
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    Help With Wordpress

    Hi Members, I have recently ditched my Joomla site and gone over to Wordpress which seems a lot more user friendly. I have a backend or blogdev as it is called and am getting my head around the widgets and side bars ok but my question is this.