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How do I align 3 photos (300px wide each) horizontally in one line (with individual links to 3 other pages), (without editing code) to the Home page with text content below on the next line? Why is WordPress page layout tools so limiting. This is the most basic and common on any page layout software.

Copy to?:

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

Wow, seams like I’m burning up too much time and getting nowhere. I hired a WP expert to coach me in building WP sites and she said building on my computer was the easiest way for me to dev WP sites but didn’t mention that would be more complicated to move to a server later.

I don’t understand how I am to learn to use WP the correct way, lots of contradiction or miss information out there. Two steps forward and one step back. Is there a current How to WP for beginners that is complete? I’ve been reading through the codex and forums since Thursday for this “simple” footer edit!

I’ve posted on Meetup WP groups asking for WP techs… any suggestions?

Thanks again for your time and assistance.

I created a child theme but only have these three choices of where to paste/edit code:

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

My apologies for my WP/coding inexperience, I didn’t know that there is a difference between editing the code of a WP site locally installed vs editing code on a server.

I have WP on my co-hosted server but am building the sites via local install and assume I will then be able to make the site live on my hosted server?

Is there a way to direct me to make this work now that you know it is on a local install?

Thank you very much for your patience and your assistance.

I understand all that you posted except two critical steps.

Im using BitNamiStack and editing live on my computer so I don’t understand what you mean by “Now, using FTP, upload that footer.php file to your child theme folder on the server.” I thought the reason to use BitNami Stack was in place of uploading to the server via FTP? Or BitNami is working as a server for me from my local computer?

I previously built a 14 page WP website in Canvas Theme and had no need to change code and the site works well. As far as I know there was no uploading using FTP to the server?

When you say:
“Now, using FTP, upload that footer.php file to your child theme folder on the server.”?
I don’t have an obvious “folder” to “upload a file” to? Do you mean copy to a section of the child theme?

This is the page content I see when in the Responsive theme, under appearance, edit:

Appearance, Edit Themes, child theme page of Responsive

Edit Themes
Responsive Child Theme: Theme Functions (functions.php)
Select theme to edit:

Templates
This child theme inherits templates from a parent theme, Responsive.

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

The child theme has these three areas to choose from to past the text, I am unclear which one it should be pasted into. I believe you said not to touch the Theme Functions so do I paste the footer PHP into the stylesheet CSS section? The CSS of the child theme is where I pasted a short code to remove Powered by WordPress. Do I paste the footer code below that other code?(shown below). I’ve been reading the Codex on building child themes but does not go into detail about what to paste where?

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

The footer PHP file gets pasted to which section of the child theme?
I assume I paste into the Theme Functions section of the page? Not the Stylesheet?

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

Thank you so much for your info, I think I got it, I’ll give it a try.

I assume I paste into the Theme Functions section of the page? Not the Stylesheet?

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

I assume I paste into the Theme Functions section of the page?

Theme Functions
(functions.php)

Styles
Stylesheet
(style.css)

RTL Stylesheet
(rtl.css)

Got it about copying all of the footer PHP but not clear on your previous post: “Oops that copyright symbol insists on being parsed – it should be the HTML entity – remove the space in this: & copy;”?

Also want to add my Favicon and live link to my website? I’m reading the WP how to…

What section of the footer do I copy from the Parent theme and paste to the child theme, all of it or just a section of it, and where do I start copying from? As you can tell I am REALLY new to WP editing code. I typically have a coder do this for me but doing a pro-bono here to help a friend have a web presence.

It was much easier to start from scratch building a more complicated website using the Canvas Theme then it was trying to edit this simple 3 page site with Responsive.

Thanks for helping me, everyone.

Not sure I understand?

@tothbalint, Thank you for the clear info, You’ve summed it up better then anyone I’ve read for the past two days! Thank you for you offer to help, I don’t get why we cant connect offline to assist one another? But we’ll comply with the rules.

I understand how to copy and paste the PHP but not how to edit the text to include my flavcon and copyright info: Website Design & Development by ?BrandZing 2013 and make the link to my website?

No, this does not describe the Responsive Theme (free) edit features. Would be great if it did, that’s how easy it should be. But there is no >Design option as described here:

“To access the Footer Options, in your WordPress Administration Panels go to Appearance > Theme Options > Design > Footer Options.

Footer Options

Footer Widgets – On/Off default is On.
Footer Copyright Text – Here you can insert your copyright text. Default is your site’s name.
Click “Save Options” when done.”

Am I missing something??

Cyberchimp has no answers for this unless you upgrade to pro or pay for support. How lame! This simple change should have builtin functionality and not make everyone change code to do such simple edits. Responsive looks easy until you try to customize it.