cjacob

Wow! Thank you andrewmills for explaining the child theme. Makes PERFECT sense now! ??

As for the steps…Hmm..I think I may have done them out of order. I made my blog site a few years ago, JUST with the parent theme (I didn’t know what a child theme was back then. Just heard of it for the first time, yesterday). Over the years, I think the only “tweak” was changing the font color of the posting titles.

Unless you count using widgets. I haven’t “tweaked” my widgets. Just used them in the normal way. clicking and dragging to my right sidebar.

So was I supposed to create this child theme, IMMEDIATELY after picking a parent theme? BEFORE making ANY changes to my site?

And now, since I have already made changes and it’s exactly how I want it (except for still not being able to get that left sidebar in), what should I do now? Start all over again?

Thanks for your help guys! ??

Claudia

Ok, I fixed it!

I made a copy of my functions.php file, just in case. Then I went to the original and deleted the 2. I saved it. Now my web site is back and active!

But wasn’t there something I was supposed to do with the ftp?

And even though I AM very happy it’s up :)… I STILL don’t know how to add a left sidebar.

Any suggestions?

Sorry..I”m still really lost.

I know what I need to change. I need to take away the “2”. But where do I make the change? I have the .php file. But you said to make a copy first. Well, I can’t copy any text off that file. It won’t let me.

Also, the copying thing throws me. I assume you are telling me when I want to make changes, to first copy the text and paste it somewhere else? Where can I paste it, where I can make changes, then see how it looks on the web? Am I supposed to copy it from, say, my WordPress editor, copy it into notepad (?),then make my changes? But where do I go with that changed text, to see how it will look on the internet?

Also, I still don’t understand FTP??? I have access right now to a number of FTP options. I have HostGator, so when I go to my file options, it give me 3:

FTP Accounts
FTP session control
FTP anonymous

But what do these mean to me? I have no idea.

Can you explain? Sorry for being so clueless with all this.

Thanks for your help!

ok. So here’s the update. I got to my files. I found my “functions.php” file. I found line 97 and yes it does look wrong and still has that 2. this is what it looks like:

register_sidebar2 (array(

So the 2 is still there. SO, can I just delete the 2, then save it?
Then what’s my next step? I’ve found that I can NOT copy and past this text, so how do I make the changes in THIS file, appear back in my editor in my WordPress editor?

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

I know that FTP is file transfer but I can’t remember what I do with that???? I’m sorry, I haven’t touched my web site in about a year, so I’ve forgotten a lot.

Sorry for being such a “newbie” about all this.

Thank you! I’ll try those out!

Can I ask you guys a general font question?

You all were SO helpful in helping me change my font color and now I want to change some more fonts.

My question to you all is….how did you know where to go in the code, to edit the font color? I told you guys I wanted the posting color title edited and you all knew exactly where to go, to change that.

Now that I want to change some other font colors, how do I find where that code is at? Here’s my blog link if that helps.

https://momscrazywritinglife.com/

Thanks!

-Claudia

Thank you Gabe! That looks good. In fact I just signed up for it!

Thanks for your advice, bitwords…great tips!

Thank you so much for your advice..I”ll do that!

Thank you for your time!

-Claudia

Thank you for help!

Can I ask, in your opinion, what IS relevant in today’s SEO world?

Backlinks? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Thank you!

When you say set up my PAGE TITLE, are you talking about the visual title on my web page, “Tales of An Aspiring Writer / Disneyaholic?” Are you saying that THAT title is the line is holding all my keywords for searches?

And here’s all the “stuff” between the H1 tags:

<h1 class=”site-title”>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?></h1>
<h2 class=”site-description”><?php bloginfo( ‘description’ ); ?></h2>
</hgroup>

<nav role=”navigation” class=”site-navigation main-navigation”>
<h1 class=”assistive-text”><?php _e( ‘Menu’, ‘scrappy’ ); ?></h1>

Thanks!

Oopps. Sorry! I forgot to put the link to my page.

https://momscrazywritinglife.com/

Here’s the code for the <title> part:

<title><?php
/*
* Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
*/
global $page, $paged;

wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ );

// Add the blog name.
bloginfo( ‘name’ );

// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
$site_description = get_bloginfo( ‘description’, ‘display’ );
if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
echo ” | $site_description”;

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
echo ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘scrappy’ ), max( $paged, $page ) );