Newbie Questions

  • Resolved phred42

    (@phred42)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    I am new to WP. I can handle html but am clueless with php.
    It appears to me that one really needs to be good at php in order to use WP. Am I missing something?

    Q1 – the user dashboard has way too much clutter for the average user that can barely get through email. I can put the change pwd/profile link, and teh WRITE a new topic in the link widget. other than that the use should simply login and land on the Home page after login. Where do I change that?

    Q2 – I’d like to put some ad gif’s and jpegs on the sidebar. How does that happen?

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  • No, you don’t need to be good at php to use WP. I’m clueless about php.

    Q1 — no idea.

    Q2 — look for sidebar.php in your theme directory. It shouldn’t be hard to figure out where to put the appropriate code.

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    Is the code that is injected into sidebar.php in php or HTML or ?

    Go to sidebar.php in your current theme, either open it in wordpress or use an outside editor such as notepad (or whatever you use to edit)

    Another way that might be easier. Open your blog admin (where your dashboard is) and go to Presentation/Widgets.

    WP comes with some built in widgets. Pull a text widget into the sidebar. If you click on the widget’s icon you can input html here for images or just about anything. Make sure you upload your images also or they won’t show up.

    Many parts of WP are controlled by style.css. And, as geekgirl indicated you can drop HTML into the php file that controls the part you want to modify like footer.php or header.php or sidebar.php.

    I don’t understand php at all either so it is trial and error for me.

    Regards,
    Keith

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    geekgirl
    – tx for the response!. I’ve been in, and attempted editing, sidebar.php – could not figure out how or where to place html to make anything happen.

    Kmessinger
    – that worked (after some wailing and nashing of teeth) thanks! I’m going to need more than 1 of these though so I guess I need to figure out how to have more than one text widget available at a time.

    Thanks again both of you for the responses!

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