Corsair130

I bought it. It wasn’t taken or anything.

Cool thanks, it seemed like it should be pretty easy… I just wasn’t seeing how to do it.

My site, by the way, is https://www.stuffblowingup.com

I need to make a welcome post, and maybe short disclaimer.

I was going to write more, but I thought I might become redundant. I want a “welcome” post that stays at the top of my blog at all times. Like regardless of how many other posts I make, the first one is always a welcome post.

Or is it possible to move my wordpress installation within my server to somewhere where it’s not in the root directory, thus not controlling everything?

Then I can create a static page somewhere outside of the wordpress installation allowing me to actually use my PHP upload function.

I’ve already looked up the instructions on how to move my installation, and it looks like a migraine.

Before I head off and mess with stuff I shouldn’t mess with, someone tell me that I’m going in the right direction.

What I will be doing is changing the installation from where it’s at now, to a new place that is one folder more into my website. That way I can put a new directory in my root that will allow it’s own rules to be followed as it pertains to HTML and PHP programming and not try to follow all of the wordpress installation’s rules.

Then what happens at my homepage? How do I redirect users to the wordpress installation? It will be something like this: https://www.mywebsite.com/home or welcome or something like that. If the website isn’t at my URL will a simple redirect work to get users to my blog? Then I can have a simple: https://www.mywebsite.com/uploads which won’t give a sh*t about wordpress.

I’ve read more about templates and what not, and that I could create a template and have that assign the style of one of my pages that I create.

This is not what I’m trying to do at all. I want to create a page that is completely seperate from wordpress. That wordpress has no control over whatsoever so that I can set certain rules for using PHP. I’m trying to add a PHP upload function but it seems like wordpress is getting in the way somehow.

I think the answer is to make a new website all together and place a simple HTML and PHP script on a page as well as a PHP.ini file to set the values I need. Then let this completely different website handle all my uploads, which I will then pull off of the website and do what I want with them.

I have searched for the answers I need in a hundred different ways but I haven’t been able to come up with much. All I want is for users to be able to upload files to me, which will be placed in a folder on my server. I don’t understand what I need to do to make that happen.

This is mighty frustrating.

Ok, so this then is probably the reason why I can’t get the php upload function to work. Maybe. I made a post about it earlier and no one responded to it. I am trying to add the PHP upload function to a page in my blog by posting the PHP code into a code widget. So what I think is happening is that it’s being called up from the SQL database and then trying to execute the script.

The PHP upload function script requires to be in a certain directory with certain other PHP files in it in order to run properly. Most specifically it is looking for the temp folder to upload to, then it copies itself from there to a designated folder. If the script is stored inside a SQL database, it isn’t going to work properly because there’s no temp folder in the same directory for it to upload to? Is this how it works?

If this is the case, can someone please advise me on how to do something that should be pretty simple to explain… I would like to make a page on my website that isn’t controlled by wordpress. A blank page. But I want it to have the format of https://www.mywebsite.com/UPLOAD, or something like that. How do I go about making this page, but not having it layed out like a default wordpress page? This should be simple, but I don’t know how to do it.

If I can do that, then I believe I can make my upload function work properly, because I know I can put all the php configuration files directly in that directory and possibly bypass all of the problems I’ve been having. If I’m working from scratch, I think that wordpress won’t get in my way. Make any sense?

Is there a place where I might find themes that are advertisement placement friendly?

Or, what might I need to know to be able to place ads in my blog?

Like cheezburger has a banner ad at the top, and ads on both the left and right side below the title. I know the exact sizes of the ads and margins and what not, but how might I go about finding a theme that already has the infrastructure in place to easily place these kinds of ads?

Thanks. This is exactly the kind of stuff I’m after. Sorry for the duplicate thread, I had some sort of browser malfunction that acted like it didn’t post.

The reason I posted this thread is just for help searching. There is so much information on this site that it can be dizzying and I know that there are people that know exactly where a lot of the stuff I’m looking for is.