Marty11

I learned a lot by trying to employ your method and then found that this is covered in Settings/Reading. One selects “Front Page Displays” – a static page. I picked the page I wanted and then had the selection, “Posts Page” and selected what I needed.

This did the trick! Thanks for taking the time to help and I am glad to see that it did turn out to be a ton easier than my other source suggested.

Thanks! That sounds ginormously much more easy than what I saw elsewhere. ‘Really appreciate you taking a moment.

Hey – thanks 4 the info. I – of course – at that point – couldn’t even get into the dashboard. As it turned out – I got on another computer and it had the password saved… so got it.

WP still never sent the pw email in order to reset the pw.

Great name! You can do it!

ThemeForest has a ton of inexpensive themes… you can get some help by getting started with a theme that does what you want.

Thanks 4 the tip.

I did figure it out by adding a custom menu and then designating that menu as the one my website supports. The guy who developed my template might have laid the foundation 4 this – I don’t know.

I checked in another site I did previously, and found my answer. Thx 4 replying.

Aries –

In my work on another subject, I realized that this might be of benefit to you re: your pages. Since you’re new – I don’t know if you r familiar with the templates that people create (and sell). They r in addition to the regular templates you can buy. I found a great template for $30 at themeforest.com. Anyway, I mention this because the guy who created the template assists newbies like us. He’ll answer questions (of course not too many questions…).

Anyway, check ouot this page – he covers the topic of ‘custom category page.’ It might help:

https://www.curtziegler.com/sitedemo/luxury/wordpress/luxury-features/custom-category-page/

I’m pretty new too. However, I found a video that explains taxonomies. A new word 4 most of us – but it will help to explain some of the ideas behind categories. Setting things up correctly right from the beginning will allow you to do a much better job of organizing your posts. As well, if you understand categories and taxonomies from the beginning, you will set things up in a way that will assist your readers in finding specific groups of posts that they are wanting to read.

The video should be a big help:

https://wordpress.tv/2010/07/09/understanding-taxonomy-wordpress/.

Cheers! Marty

The two installations solution might have been from years ago.

I need to have all my actual posts in one area and my other ‘posts’ that don’t have dates or comments in another area.

I don’t want them to co-mingle. So, with custom posts could I have a page called ‘blog’ that only has posts that are customized as a special ‘type’ of post?

Thanks 4 your help!

I’m a newbie and I love new words…

It seems to me that this would be a very important time for you to learn more about ‘taxonomies’ in WP. (I didn’t check out each post above – but I didn’t note the word being used)

I stumbled upon the below video and it has been a life-saver! This guy covers categories that you can add (in a slightly different way than simply adding a category). It is very much worth checking out before you complete adding all your 11,000 items or nailing down how people find what is where in your db.

And ‘Padow!’ – it’s fixed.

Thanks 4 directing me to your site and the WP video that illustrates how to organize pages. I was afraid I’d have to organize them via some type of code… It was wise of WP to add this feature.

Again, thanks a million 4 the fast reply.

Planky –

I am not right at my WP dashboard. Do I also have an option for width? That’s the biggest problem right now.

I did get it resolved. I changed the padding in the nav.css for the navigation bar.

Thanks! Marty

esmi –

that did it! I found that area in nav.css. Thanks you SO MUCH.

esmi –

thanks 4 posting an idea. I couldn’t find this area specifically in the style.css. I tried a # of things like making the page wider in style.css but that didn’t help. I tried a variety of different padding elements. Am I correct to assume that I need to fix the navigation bar? Or do I make the page wider?

It still isn’t working. Any other suggestions?

thanks so much, Marty

Argh… ‘sorry – kbministry.org.