joshuaone

I started a myblog.wordpress.com blog about 3 weeks ago. I went to the dashboard today — and I do not have a Presentation/Design tab. I only have four tabs — Write, Manage, Comments, Upgrade. I have no access to my theme, to add pages, to add or modify user profiles, etc. What in the world is going on?

I have tried one person’s suggestion — to delete cookies and close and reopen browser. Didn’t help. Any other suggestions?

All I want to do is add a permalink button at the end of each post (rather than being satisfied with the title as the permalink). Kafkaesqui, it looks to me like the code you wrote above may be close to what I need. Would you please have pity on my non-geek brain on tell me what code I need to do that — and where to put it. I would be grateful.

My post title is also my permalink. How can I modify things so that the permalink button is plainly visible at the bottom of the post?

Aha! I now have a Page Template drop down menu. Thanks!

Thanks!

I am using the Scp_Flex WP theme. I see now that the designer did not give this theme any page templates. The theme came with no page.php file, archive.php file, etc. It does have an index.php, which (if I understand the Codex) should be the default. The resulting pages is formatted exactly like a post.

So, I went to the Default theme, and copied the page.php file from that theme to my Scp_Flex folder. I named the file page-normal.php. Then, based on what you said above, I added the additional introductory lines of php at the top of the file.

Below is what the file looks like now:with the first php command being what I just added, and the rest being what I copied from Defaul page.php.

The file still does NOT appear in the drop down menu on the Write/Page screen that has the heading “Add A New Custom Field to this Post.” Is that where I should be looking?

<?php
/*
Template Name: Page-normal
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”entrytext”>
<?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this page »’); ?>

<?php link_pages(‘Pages: ‘, ”, ‘number’); ?>

</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
<?php edit_post_link(‘Edit this entry.’, ”, ”); ?>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Where — in the Codex, the Support Forum, or the WWW — can I find an explanation of the six-digit code for color (such as the one you reference above)? I want to modify some colors on my WP Theme, but can’t catch a clue about the basis of these color codes. [E.g., two color codes my theme uses are color: #555558; background: #73868C. What color code system is that?] Thanks.

Let me piggyback on askdaskd’s previous questions. I still don’t get it. I am trying to create a new page template and set an existing page of my blog to that new template.

I have created a new page template file in my theme folder, by copying an existing page file (I copied page.php from the default theme into the folder for my current theme, scp_flex, and I gave the new file a new name).

Now, when I open the page that I want to assign to this new template (using Manage/Pages/Edit — bring me to the “Write Page” screen) — I do NOT have a drop-down menu for choosing my template.

I DO have a box at the bottom of the screen that says “Add a new custom field to this post” — and that box has a drop down menu on the left that has just two values: “Select” and “wp_page_template.” There is a button at the right that says “add custom field” — but when I click on it, nothing much happens — the page refreshes, but nothing else.

So, my questions:
(1) Where is the drop-down menu to select page templates?
(2) How do I get the new page template I have created to show up in that menu?

Thanks.

Yes, the blog is working now — with the default theme. I had the scp-flex theme loaded up before, and it was working fine — before I managed to delete the user loginout tag, which started me down this rabbit trail. Anyway, I guess I have resolved the problem that started this thread (can’t login), so guess I will start a new thread to try to figure out why I can’t get my theme to work. Thanks very much for your help.

Now that I can get into my dashboard, I went to Presentations to re-select scpflex as my theme. It says: “The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template. Stylesheet is missing.” However, it appears that all of the files that I uploaded are present — including style.css (5k). What gives? Shall I try deleting and re-uploading all over again?

Hey…that does the trick. Thanks! Now, would you please back up a few posts and give me some guidance re the sidebar file and restoring my loginout tag (although, based on what you just taught me, I see that I don’t really need a loginout tag at all). Thanks!

I used the FTP Manager on my cpanel to do the upload — and yes, it appears to have uploaded alright. Using File Manager, I am able to see the spcflex theme in the right place — as well as the default and classic themes. I’m guessing that the problem is that now none of those three themes is chosen as the default theme — so none of them are making my website presentable. Does that make sense? And, if I recall correctly, I need to go to my dashboard to select a theme — and i can’t get to my dashhboard, because I have no place to log in.

Well, every time I try to climb out, I just end up digging myself deeper. I decided that rather than wait for answers to the above, I would just delete the spc-flex theme and re-upload it — so I would have it back in its original version. I opened up File Manager and deleted the spc-flex theme. Then, I uploaded it again — presumably I accomplished all of that fine.

But now I have NOTHING showing at my URL. Just a blank screen. I’m guessing that now the problem is that I have no theme set as my current theme. However, I can’t set a theme without logging onto my dashboard (which is how I started this thread in the first place — I can’t log on) — and now I not only do not have a logon template tag — I don’t have ANYTHING showing. I can’t get to my dashboard!!!

I’m really not a dummy. As a matter of fact, I’m fairly intelligent and fairly competent in many software programs. All software takes a little noodling around to get familiar with, but most software is set up in such a way that you can’t do too much damage while you’re learning.

But WordPress is treacherous! One false move, and you are plummeting off a cliff. I am only able to do this in my spare time — and each time I take a stab at it — I put myself back a couple of days waiting for a volunteer’s assistance to grope my way back to the path. This 5-minute install has now taken me several weeks — and I still haven’t got to the point where I have posted my first blog.

Please don’t tell me to switch to Blogger. I WANT to learn WordPress. The enthusiasm about it seems widespread — and I want to get in on a good thing. But I’ve got to express my frustration.

Anyway, if anybody out there can help me — I would be extremely grateful.