Lydia

Good definition, Servant. Kinda similar to my definition of “common sense” – whatever I know that you don’t that I think you ought to know — or vice versa, of course.

I expect if I knew a little more about UNIX commands there’s probably a way to make those files beginning with dots visible. But, like I said, I’m not a programmer.

Thanks to all for your kind help!

Thanks, vkaryl. That worked. I’m so used to creating files on my desktop and FTPing them to the server, going through file manager seemed unneccessary. Turned out to be the way to go with this file.

I can see .htaccess files in my FTP client without a problem. Fetch isn’t the problem. It’s my operating system that won’t let me see them to create or edit them like I do all my other files. So downloading a file beginning with a dot is useless. It disappears as soon as it hits the desktop!

But there was no .htaccess file in the template directory to deal with anyway. I used the code offered at WordPress on the Permalink page to create it new — in the file manager as you suggested. That worked.

Now that I have the permalink working, I have to learn how to work my way around a php file.

Thanks for your help!

Servant, you’re truly generous sharing your time and knowledge. I think perhaps I’m coming across dumber than I am, however.

Though I’m not a programmer, I am a designer. I create, design and edit websites with HTML and XHTML with CSS using BBEdit. I’ve pulled all the files in the template directory into BBEdit and have experimented with applying code on the index.php, but I obviously am not intuiting PHP structure or rules very well because nothing I’ve done has given me the results I’m looking for. Downloading a few other templates and looking over the code may indeed help. Thanks for the suggestion.

Where does one find this “Subscribe Me” plugin? The only plugins I’ve found are Hello Dolly, Markdown, and Textile 1.

Firas,
An .htaccess file is visible in my FTP client for my host directory, so I assume such files would also be visible throughout. That said, none is visible in my wp-content directory nor in my template directory. When I ask Fetch to show all files it tells me there is no such file there. When I try to create a .htaccess file, my operating system refuses to make it visible. “Files beginning with a dot are reserved for the system.” And files I’ve created beginning with a dot, in spite of the warning, won’t show up in a system search. If you know how to find these invisibles on Mac OS X 10.3.9 please tell me how.

Thanks to both of you for your help.

Thanks, Servant. The feed does indeed work. I’ve added a syndication category in the regular links until I can figure out how to work the php to edit the template a little better.

I don’t have any permalinks. I got a message saying if I wanted to use them I’d have to add something to my .htaccess file. And I don’t know how to do that. I couldn’t download it to even see what it looks like. Maybe it’s because I’m using Mac Panther OS???

I still can’t figure out how to get a graphic link in the designated spot in the template. I see you’ve done some customizing in the template you’re using. How did you get the ‘add to my…’ buttons onto your site? I’ve tried using the form screens via my WP account, but haven’t been able to get any images to take after I’ve entered them.

Also wondering how you added your custom image to the top of the template. Are you reconfiguring the index.php file?

Thanks for whatever help you can give.
Lydia

Well that url obviously didn’t take the pre tag. but the url is indicated in parentheses as ‘rss2_url’. I’m assuming that this is where I need to change whatever needs to be changed. Right?

Makes sense, but I don’t know PHP (yet) and there’s obviously a different means of rendering that url in the sidebar.php than the way I’m used to with regular XHTML.

The original code in the template looks like this
<pre>
” title=”<?php _e(‘Syndicate this site using RSS’); ?>”><?php _e(‘RSS’); ?>
</pre>

If I replace ‘rss2_url’ with ‘wp-rss2.php’, the problem remains. So how do I code the correct url here? I also tried entering the entire url ‘https://lydiamong.com/weblog/wp-rss2.php&#8217; and it didn’t work that way either.

Can you help me with this?