churchthemer

No worries, I’ve seen weirder wordpress things happen.

Check this plugin (which is old but did theme: login, registration and lost password forms:

https://www.jameskelly.org/wordpress-plugins/custom-login-and-registration-forms-plugin/

and this article for a more “hacky” way of doing it:

https://www.optiniche.com/blog/297/custom-login-registration-pages/

The “Static Page” wording on the Settings >> Reading page should really be replaced with “Use Page Template:”

Really what this setting is asking is whether you would like to use the theme’s index.php file as the homepage or some other template file.

Template files can be static or dynamic depending on their contents, so, while the template file could be a “static page with posts” this functionality is something you would have to create in the template file, wordpress doesnt create this for you.

In this case, your homepage template file would need to contain a custom wordpress query that loops through posts according to your specified criteria. It could also contain static content in addition to these dynamic posts.

Remove the beginning slash from definition below:

#heading {
margin-top:4px;
width:980px;
float:left;
clear:both;
height:134px;
background: url(/img/heading.jpg)0 0 no-repeat;
padding: 66px 0 0 156px;

}

background: url(img/heading.jpg)0 0 no-repeat;

Seems to be working for me, are you still having the issue?

Yep, no problem.

Hey Kapa,

I have extensive knowledge in building church websites using wordpress and would be glad to help you with any current or future issues. Send me an email at churchthemer[at]gmail[dot]com if you want.

To answer your specific question, yes, this is totally possible. You will make a custom page template, and update the pages static content through the wordpress backend while using one or more custom wordpress queries to add the dynamic sections to the pages template code. In short your page template will have at least 2 loops. One that displays the pages static content from the wordpress backend and one that displays post content dynamically. If you would like detailed instructions let me know. I’m here to help.

Hey OneMillion,

For a quick fix you can just add the height and the width to the img tag in your sidebar.

<img src='<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ?>/images/rssfeedicon.jpg' alt='<?php _e('Subscribe to feed', 'sds') ?>' width="32" height="32"/>

The above will force the the image to 32px by 32px. You can substitute whatever pixel values you want but be aware that you may stretch the image so that it looks bad or you may break your themes layout by making the dimensions incompatible with the themes layout. It’s probably safe to go smaller, but use caution when going bigger.

Hope that helps.

Hey Mark,

I don’t know much about that specific theme, but to change the background of a theme you would typically open the stylesheet for the theme (style.css) and find the definition for the background you want to change. This is typically going to be defined near the top of the style sheet in a definition named, body, content or wrapper or something like that.

If you don’t know the class or id name of the background you are looking to change you can just scan the css and look for any lines that look like this:

background:#ff0000 . . .

or

background-color:#ff0000;

the hexidecimal color codes above are just examples and will probably be different in your theme’s style. If your not sure which one to change you can change each instance of “background” or “background-color” one by one to something like:

background:yellow; or background-color:yellow;

until you find the definition that changes what you are looking for.

If you post a link to your site I can be much more specific.

Hope that helps get you started.