Chris

Nothing happened.

I duplicated the header.php file and replaced everything between the <title>s with the above.

Copied that into the child directory.

Do I have to tell “it” to use the child theme header.php instead of the parent?

Wow that actually worked, with minimal fuss. Thanks!

Sure of course.

Here is the page:
https://musiclessonshq.com/?cat=11

I’m just interested in having a clean list of the articles without breadcrumbs or the “attribution” links (tiny gray extra stuff, whatever you would call that). I know Edit is there because I’m logged in.

Thx.

Does the category file need some kind of opening and closing code for the file itself, separate and additional to the above mentioned/linked code?

Ok thank you, my bad. I added that code to a category.php files which I copied into the child theme directory.

On the posts page of the site I go this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/20/7343020/html/wp-content/themes/twenty-ten-child/category.php on line 61

that’s the last line.

This code is out of my skill set to troubleshoot this right now.
Thanks!

That’ll do it. Thanks.

Thank you but, ok, this is where seemingly straightforward becomes annoyingly tedious…

a) That’s a lot of code. It’s necessary to copy that entire 60 lines into the new category.php file?

– I thought you could just swap “php the_content()” for “php the_excerpt()”?

b) The line: “<?php the_content();?>” is not even in that code.

I know you’re all programmers and you can summarize and abbreviate suggestions, but for a non-programmer it only leads to more questions and problems. Please be explicit.

Isn’t there some simple checkbox somewhere in the admin area for excerpt/full posts, so you don’t have to get into all this for such a simple task?

Hmmmm. Thanks.

Ok thanks. I have already have a child theme with a functions and css file.

…contains a single Loop that incorporates <?php the_content();?>…

So what exactly would that look like? I could hunt and peck for an hour or more to decipher and utilize what you mean exactly, but could you just provide something I could cut and paste it would be appreciated.
I’m doing pretty well gradually learning the WP back end, short of total programming immersion…

Thank you.

You’re right!

Twentyten.

Ok thank you. Since my original post I googled around and looked at plugins, I have now installed an anti-spam plugin.

Should have done that first probably. All good for now.

That did it! Yes, I did remove that because of another unrelated issue. Case closed! Thank you!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have just solved my problem, one which I have posting questions and reading and reading trying to figure out – it is not stated in any understandable, simple fashion ANYWHERE AT ALL IN ALL THE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION (that I pored over). Even the “Support” team couldn’t tell me that.

It has been 6 months since I worked on my site and that login url must have gotten lost in the mix.

It makes more sense now, thank you.

One more quick thing, I noticed this same formatting issue with another simple plugin I installed – so I think this is a general concept I’m trying to figure out here rather than an error maybe?

The site is:

yourboulderhomeblog.com

If you click the any page in the top nav, look in the left sidebar. You will see the properly formatted widgets/Category list, then below, the mortgage calculator which has no formatting.

In the code you will notice that the title “Mortgage Calculator” has the same h3 class as the above “Category” widget, but does not format. I just don’t get where the breakdown is.

In the header there is a reference to srp.css for the Mortgage Calculator, but it does not seem to be effecting anything. I must be missing something.

I would really appreciate some help following through with this. Once it clicks I think it will open up my understanding for the broad development concepts. Thanks!

sorry to keep trickling in information…..but

in the WordPress editor, the referred to .css file says “inactive”. Could this be it? I see how to activate the whole plugin but can you activate individual files? If so how?