Mr E

Oh, also it needs to display the calender schedule so that filled spots are shown unavailable…

brainycat, I’d like to comment on:

I’m going to agree with you that WP suffers from much of the same overselling as several other bigname opensource packages.

I fully, totally agree but would like to point out to anyone reading this that while there is this complex curve, the gain is more control.

In that, the balance as I know it is:

Control and ability to manipulate — vs — Simplicity and ease of use.
– Which is the same as:
I can do much, much more — vs — It is limited but easy.

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LS,

Being a geek is about problem solving, learning how to find answers is more importiant than learning the answers. Let me describe in basics:

Oookaaaaaayyy. I know where “here” is, cuz I’m at it. But where the heck is this /home/——-/public_html/weblog/wp-content/plugins directory?

I happen to know the answer to this one pretty well and can break it down some, as well as give hints on where to find answers.

/home/ – Is the root, or base location of a webserver space.

——- – can also be ~~~~~~ or alike, its a way of saying ‘insert your specific info here’ as what comes between the public_html directory on a server can be a few things depending on your server or host.

/public_html/ – is the end all be all place of your websites space. I know I said before that /home/ was root, but it is the base location, or root, of your account. This location, /public_html/ is the base or root of the webpage area. There is a webpage root seperate from an account root because for many days into history there were email, ftp and other roots on each account space.. To be honest, everything I’ve said may not even be visable if your hosting company is keeping up with the times, often now they are all bundeled into one root. Having said that, lets move on ??

weblog/wp-content/plugins directory? – is the folder location on your website. If you use an FTP client to log into your site, you can click through these folders to find the file or space needed to make the modifications desired.

Now.. As for the part of ‘learning how to find answers’ – Here is a short list of questions that can be asked which may help. Ask yourself these when you have a problem.

1) What am I supposed to do? (what is my specific task)
2) How can I accomplish this? (lean on any provided info of how-to)
3) What will I need to perform this? (software / tools)
4) Before I start, can I find where others have done this and documented it? (God bless Google, amen)
– Make the action based on answers above.
5) How did the result come out?
6) Can I document my actions?
– Make documentation if possible, even just for personal notes.

This pattern of thinking about tech problems can often help guide you through a situation with a little ease. With items 1 through 4, the answers are often found on Google searches in my experince. I would have taken the question I responded to and first googled “what is /home/” and read a few things about it. From there, bit by bit, answers can be formed and solid knowledge is gained without having to read a whole book on webservers to get the basics of what, in this topic, was a filepath question. Once I found all I could, I would have looked for more answers on places like these forums or yahoo answers. Laugh perhaps, but !Y answers is actually nice for a quick response as there are oodles of people on it.