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  • Sun: I understood that is what you were asking and the google search I told you of will lead you in the right direction.

    Also: for general information on turning away bots go to https://www.robotstxt.org

    You could password protect your site using a .htaccess file.
    Post the login information on the ‘gateway’ page so that a real human can access the site but bots will just go away.
    Or forgo posting the login at all and only people you give the login can view the site.

    Do a google search for “horizontal list items wordpress”
    There are a few guides on there
    I am currently working on a dynamic implementation of one of them using the admin panel to manage the menu items

    Forum: Themes and Templates
    In reply to: Site Design

    What you need to do is start messing around with the wp-layout.css file. That is the file which controls the look of the site.
    Make a backup first- then just start changing things around. If you aren’t too familiar with CSS check out some tutorials like at the https://www.w3schools.com
    If you have dreamweaver or something like it with a CSS editor built in it can make things a little easier to see how they are laid out.
    Once you get more familiar with CSS you will get some ideas and start obsessively tweaking it like me!

    What was the problem?
    If you could post an explanation it might help someone in the future

    Fluid designs can allow for different settings, but they can be a bit trickier. Well, to me they are. ??
    I don’t even want to talk about it!

    do you have the files in the right directories?
    are all your paths correct?
    it would seem to be 1 of those

    I have been trying to use variable widths to accomodate down to 8×6
    but I am used to a 21″ display set to 1280×1024
    it’s a compromise..

    Did you put the ifmodules around the rewrite rules?
    `<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /YOURPATHHERE
    ALL OF THE REWRITERULES
    </ifmodule>’

    Ugh. I spend all day redoing the CSS for my site. I start to think ‘hey it’s starting to look OK’
    then I look at some of these.
    ugh.

    What you want to do sounds similiar to how I have my site set up. I have seperated the standard index.php into header and footer files so that I can make ‘static’ pages.
    (Keep in mind I have tags in these that are specific to my site)
    Header.php:
    <?php
    /* Don't remove this line. */
    require('./wp-blog-header.php');
    ?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/1">
    <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
    @import url( <?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css );
    </style>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/print.css" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
    <link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
    <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
    <?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="rap">
    <h1 id="header">"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>
    <div id="content">
    Footer.php:
    </div>
    <div id="menu">

      <li id="categories"><?php _e('Categories:'); ?>
      <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

    <li id="search">
    <label for="s"><?php _e('Search:'); ?></label>
    <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">
    <div>
    <input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" />

    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="<?php _e('Search'); ?>" />
    </div>
    </form>

    <li id="archives"><?php _e('Archives:'); ?>

      <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

    <li id="calendar">
    <?php get_calendar(); ?>

    <li id="other"><?php _e('Other:'); ?>

    <li id="meta"><?php _e('Meta:'); ?>

    </div>
    </div>

    </body>
    </html>
    And then any page I want to create is only 3 lines of code:
    Index.php:
    <?php include('wp-includes/header.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/posts.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/footer.php') ?>
    My resume and links page use this method.
    You could create a new page: newpage.php
    and have the code:
    <?php include('wp-includes/header.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/NEWTEMPLATE.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/footer.php') ?>
    If you want a completely different look for that page, just create a new header file and use a different CSS file for it.
    <?php include('wp-includes/NEWHEADER.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/NEWTEMPLATE.php') ?>
    <?php include('wp-includes/footer.php') ?>
    Create whatever CSS you want for NEWHEADER.php

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: New 3 Column Style
    Thread Starter clay

    (@clay)

    I think I am bordering on CMS at this point!

    Thread Starter clay

    (@clay)

    if anyone is interested in how it works feel free to aim me at adailyadventure

    What are the permissions for your files and directories?
    403 errors are generally related to file permissions, if the site admins had disabled the rewrite engine or something similiar, you would most likely get a 500 server error. I think.
    Are you using virtual hosting?
    Check your rewrite base path.. play around with it and see what changes it makes.. you may need to add something like /home/palimpset. But if you are getting a 403 I don’t think this is it.
    Check your file/directory permissions

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