NicoJulius

If you want to give blogging a try, a wordpress.com blog is a good option.

Hi, thanks for the response. As a test I installed qTranslate on an English version where the welcome panel works fine. When I switch to Dutch, no welcome panel. I also tested this with the French version, and also there no welcome panel…

Just created a tutorial (including video tutorial): https://www.wordpressninja.com/2011/12/how-to-translate-wordpress-with-qtranslate/

I wrote a tutorial about the qTranslate plugin (including video). You can check it out at my blog. It shows everything: how to configure it and how to use it.
You’ll see how easy it is!

Try the Related Posts Thumbnails plugin.
Nico

What error do you get? It’s possible that you have to change some folder permissions.

Did you follow the steps on this page?

If you can’t change that option in a settings page, you’ll have to do it manually: you’ll have to tweak the theme a little bit. If you know some html / css / php it won’t be a problem.

You should think about installing the latest version of WordPress. I understand that you do that for a theme, but there is a chance that you’ll experience problems when installing certain recent plugins. Can’t you find another theme?

On topic: contact form 7 is easy to use

I wrote a little tutorial about this:
https://www.wordpressninja.com/2011/06/how-to-add-a-jquery-datepicker-to-your-contact-form-7/

Because a lot of people are looking for this I wrote a little tutorial about this:
https://www.wordpressninja.com/2011/06/how-to-add-a-jquery-datepicker-to-your-contact-form-7/

In that section labeled “form” you have to add the fields you want to see in your form. Below, in the section “mail” you also have to add tags so you can see the results.

For example, if you want to add an extra field “E-mail address” then you add the following in the “form” section:

<p>E-mail address:<br />
    [text emailaddress] </p>

The “[text emailaddress]“-tag is actually your input field, the other stuff is text.

But you also want to get the result of that field, so you also have to add this in the mail you’ll receive. So in the “mail” section you could add:

E-mail address:
[emailaddress]

Note that between the tags, the word “text” isn’t there.

The section “mail (2)” is used in the same way as “mail” and you can use it to send a confirmation mail to your visitor.

You have to add these extra tags in the form and not in the page. Just go to “Forms” > “Edit” in the left menu and add those extra tags to your contact form. Don’t forget to remove the extra tags in the page, just keep [contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"].

I always use phpMyAdmin. You can find how to do this here.