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Help With Wordpress

by Malcolm Tindle
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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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    • Profile picture of the author Aristocratic
      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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      • Profile picture of the author Malcolm Tindle
        Hi Guys,

        Thank you for getting back to me on this, I appreciate your trouble and will try to clarify.

        My theme is the Atahualpa and when I started I was advised to ad a couple of posts and a few elements in both the side bars to get the feel of it by using my backend blogdev1 (or test area) which is:-

        "http://www.networldgateway.com/blogdev1/" without the quotes

        My main page or frontend is :-

        "http://www.networldgateway.com" which as you can see is different and pretty awful at present LOL.

        When I go into my backend and log into my control area I can ad what I like in terms of posts and when I click on update they will automatically upload to my blogdev1 or test area as well as my front end but only in the centre section and not the side widgets. The first widgets in the side bars were added by a friend prior to the upload but he is not available at present. Since the first upload I have added more widgets and text links/banners etc but I gather they have to be uploaded manually to the front end and that is where I am stuck.

        I use filezilla, or should I say I have it, is this where I have to copy and paste files from one side to the other to make them appear in the front end or how do I do it.

        Oh and yes, the codes I am using for the banners etc in the widgets are correct and the same ones I used for my joomla site and my other blogger blog.

        I hope that explains where I am at present,


        Mal.
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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"
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  • Profile picture of the author houdy
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Malcolm Tindle
      Originally Posted by houdy View Post

      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.
      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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      • Profile picture of the author Fred_Acker
        Try this Mal:

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        • Profile picture of the author KEY
          sorry to possibly hurt your feelings...but you do have 2 separate WP installs, as there is a wp-login.php address unique to each blog.

          wordpress does not have a 'developer' area backend. sounds like your friend has really confused you! the only thing I can think of is that you have one of the multi blog managers installed and have been loggin into THAT control panel and not the actual wp-login?

          in any case you still have 2 blogs on the same domain. to change the blog on the main domain you should log in ->here<- whereas what you are calling blogdev1 is ->here<-

          if you want to 'work' on your blog and not have the world see? here is a simple trick. in your case...1) log in to the 'blogdev1' blog and copy all of the posts and any code you have inserted into text widgets, and move it all to the blog on the domain. 2) delete that extra 'blogdev1' blog! 3) in either Cpanel or with Filezilla put up an index.html in the root directory. either leave it blank or have the much malined "under construction" page. 4) what this will do is that if someone just enters your domain? the default is to pull index.html in preference to index.php (WP's page)...so they get the html page. 5) now if you want to see your blog? just enter -> networldgateway.com/index.php <- and you can see what your blog is looking like. (works with Joomla or any CMS that uses php)

          when you want the world to actually 'see' your blog? just (carefully!) delete the index.html, and your blog will operate as normal.

          this way you only have one blog, and can work on it in private (so to speak).

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      • Profile picture of the author Aristocratic
        Originally Posted by Malcolm Tindle View Post

        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.

        Are you using a shared database? If you make changes to your primary blog on the .com, does it appear on the secondary blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author houdy
    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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