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Ah, yes. I wasn’t speaking correctly with the terminology. It’s the shortcodes that aren’t coming in.

This theme is from elegant themes. The short codes are generated by the theme, not a plugin.

Should I be taking my question to their forum?

Thank you very much for the help.

I’m still seeing this off and on or similar errors. I have to quit my browser and re open it to even view the site.

Anyone?

I received a prompt reply from the author that resolved the issue!

Thank you very much for the great service!

To resolve it: I had to check the box “allow mp3s from other domains” in settings.

Nevermind. Figured it out.

Ok, I understand more now. Thank you.

I basically took out everything except the header, footer and sidebar. How that messed the side that the sidebar was on and I realized I needed to leave a div container there.

Placing text directly in the php file worked fine, and since I only have a few pages like this, I think I will do that. Is this good protocol?

Can I edit and format that php page just like any other page?

Ok, here is what I’ve figured out.

I figured out the category IDs for the categories that I want handled differently. I created .php files for those categories. This accomplished a lot in that now those category pages look different and all the other pages on the site are displaying correctly. So that’s good.

Now my issue is that I don’t know what to edit on those pages to make the list of categories it’s displaying disappear. Further, I can not add text directly to those specific categories.

For example:

If you click on the category Sight Singing, you get a page that shows all of my categories – even what doesn’t belong there. Further, if I open the post called Sight Singing and add text there, it does not show up on the site.

I basically want those category pages to display as a blank page, and I want to be able to add text to them like any other post.

Any direction appreciated. I thought perhaps I had to edit the loop, but it does not appear on the category-ID.php pages I copied from the archive.

I’ll get this eventually, but any help would be appreciated.

I don’t know if it matters, since it does not mention this on the page you linked to, but I do have a page called single.php which seems to reference category posts.

Perhaps that is the page I need to edit?

Thanks for the direction.

I read through and checked my theme. My theme did not have a category.php page. Within the hierarchy listed in your link, the furthest mine went was to archive.php, so I am assuming based on that information that that’s the file I need to modify. So I copied the code from that theme and created a category.php fle and uploaded that to the same folder with the other theme files.

This immediately messed up the entire website – even before I had changed anything. I’m not sure why that would be since I had not altered any code. I thought wordpress would just grab the same information from the category.php page instead archive.php, but apparently I am missing something.

A further bump in the right direction would be appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you very much, that did help with the paragraph size. I see you added to the margins and added some padding as well.

The only other unresolved issue is that after the sentence:

Practicing Sight Singing has never been easier.

I can not seem to create space between that line and the next sentence:

The Practice Room provides the tools necessary…etc

Can you help with that?

You are fabulous by the way, I’ve been reading your responses to other posts as I work my way through the learning process here.

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It was a permalink issue. Fixed it myself! Woo!

hmmm, I got an error message

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/jean1965/public_html/sightsinging.info/wp-admin/page.php on line 6

and I figured I’d messed up a theme, so out of curiosity I changed the theme. same error message.

I can’t edit existing pages.

whoops, didn’t see your response until after I posted my last one. I did figure that out when reading about the hierarchy. So thanks for the links. ??

You may get sick of me. ??

Ok, thanks to you, I’ve had a little success.

I copied the index.php page and saved it as page.php. then I changed some things and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

And I realized I needed to create the page in html and upload it through ftp.

Your help is much appreciated.

Ok, based on a little poking around, and not having an understanding of php, I’m going to take a guess that it’s index.php.

I’ll try playing with that.

Now I just need to figure out how to create a new template file from within wordpress. ?? That is my mission. ??

Okay, I’m going to have to ask again already. I don’t see a single.php file in this theme.

I went to appearance > Editor > and saw the list on the right.

My options are:

* Comments (comments.php)
* Footer (footer.php)
* Header (header.php)
* Main Index Template (index.php)
* Popup Comments (comments-popup.php)
* Sidebar (sidebar.php)
* Theme Functions (functions.php)

Any suggestions?