Beginner needs help with comments and archives page for pressrow

  • Hi,

    I’m so new to this, and having a very hard time understanding how to do a lot. I have the pressrow 0.1 by Chris Pearson theme. On my homepage, there are three pages listed, two of which I did not create on my dashboard. I’m trying to figure out how to get rid of the “archives” page. I can’t delete it from my dashboard, because I never created the page. It was automatically there when I installed the theme.

    Second, when people go to comment, it takes them to my “about” page and they are unable to comment.

    any help would be so much appreciated – I’m about to give up!

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    haha – i have no idea what i just did and i have no idea what you said about fixing the about page – sorry if i’m frustrating you!

    what exactly did you change to the comments_popup_link()?

    Can you copy that part (starting from <?php end ending at ?>) here?

    Remember to use backticks around that part.

    Peter

    Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    <?php comments-popup-link(‘No Comments’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?>

    That was me trying to fix it after i messed up….

    what are backticks?

    comments_popup_link, I assume?

    Peter

    Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    oh…

    ‘<?php comments-popup-link(‘No Comments’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?>’

    is that what you meant?

    those aren’t backticks, but never mind… the function needs underscores, not dashes (comments_popup_link vs comments-popup-link).

    Peter

    Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    thank you!

    could you try to guide me through that “about” page thing?

    which way you wanna go? permalinks, or no permalinks?

    Let’s start with number 2, since that’s the easiest.

    Go to your admin panel, and select ‘pages’ on your left hand side. Now hover over the about page you created (not click), and watch your status bar (of the browser). It should say something like:

    https://sortakindafamous.com/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=10, where the number 10 can be different, however is crucial to what we’re trying to accomplish. Remember this number.

    Now go to the header.php, and find the spot where you removed the ‘archives’ part, earlier in this thread.

    Change the url for the about page, specifically where it says /about you change it into /?p=10, where you replace the 10 with the number you just remembered.

    That should be about it.

    Peter

    In order to get the comment thingemy nice, change this:

    <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>

    into this:

    <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments', 'comments'); ?>

    That should do the trick to get the readers right away to the comment space.

    Peter

    Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    thank you so so so so much peter!!

    Thread Starter rkem18

    (@rkem18)

    AND i just figured out how to get the archives tab out of the about page!! thank you so much for your help!

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