pennyplastic

Figaro, you are a star!

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=148

Just finished your video tutorial, I have NO clue why I was having a problem before, because I thought I had the correct password, but changing things up worked.

Thank you so much, I will definitely be donating.

Alright, now I am trying to edit the wp-config file (my friend did this for me the last time) and I am confused about what I need to enter into the fields.

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

In my account I have now, the DB_NAME/DB_USER are pennyplastic_wp01, can I assume for my new site it should be pennyluxe_wp01 for each?

Also, I have no clue how to find the MySQL password….

Just did that, figaro.

I have already uploaded WP to my Bluehost account, I will see what the next steps are.

I’m sure I will confuse myself even further ??

Shoot…..well, I just actually added those WP.com domain servers at GoDaddy (figured out how to do it myself, at least!). I realize it might be a round-about way of doing things, but can I continue forward in this manner?

Thanks, figaro, for the quick response.

Chris, no worries at all, it’s all hit or miss, a learning process ??

Plus, I am careful to save the original code just in case!

Actually, since we’re still on this Neoclassical theme, I have one other nagging issue that’s been bothering me.

The theme is set up to have a search bar at the top of the right sidebar that has a title of “Search This Site.”

https://pearsonified.com/theme/neoclassical/

For some reason, the search box is showing up on my site, but not the title. Furthermore, when I tried to add it, it worked (I even managed to get aligned to the left, yay me!) but 1) the title showed up BELOW the faint dotted line, which makes it uneven with the left sidebar and 2) it was a link, to a page for my “fashion” tag.

“Recent Comments” also links to this tag if you click on it:

https://www.pennyplastic.com/tag/fashion/

Which is totally bizarre, I have no clue how that happened.

Anyhow, I would love to figure out what is going on with the search box.

bsut, I also fixed my blog title using your last (easier, of course) method.

As for Google, I haven’t even begun to understand how SEO works, so I will just hope for the best and leave it for another day ??

figaro, that totally worked.

Learning HTML is both exhilarating and incredibly frustrating. It’s great to have such a helpful crowd as a resource, so I thank you all!

xo

Heh, also, “The Adventures Of Penny Plastic” is not what shows up in the browser tab, it’s the address – https://www.pennyplastic.com.

Any idea why this is?

bsut,

Did this and yes, it is no longer a “hidden” link (if the cursor is up at the top it does not prompt a link). But, there is a still a space above the header, but at this point, I am happy.

It’s still not showing up in Google, but, as Chris has told me before, this has something to do with waiting for it to be reindexed, right?

Thank you both!

Chris, thanks for the recommendation.

Off topic, but….I know there are programs you can use to “test” code as you work on it. What are some of these? I have Adobe Go Live that always tries to open when I open php files on my computer, but I always end up working on code in a text editing program.

Just curious as I’d like to be able to test design changes on my blog without my readers being subjected to all the funky stuff that is bound to show up….

Let me know if you need anything further than what I provided above.

I also tried to “push” the text off the page per Codex:

h1 {
font-size: 0;
text-indent: -1000px; }

This didn’t do anything either, so obviously there’s another portion of the code that needs to change…

This is my header code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head profile="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

	<title><?php if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { wp_title('',true); } else { bloginfo('description'); } ?></title>

	<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />

	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/custom.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
	<!--[if lte IE 7]>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/ie7.css" />
	<![endif]-->
	<!--[if lte IE 6]>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/ie6.css" />
	<![endif]-->
	<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body class="custom">

<div id="container">
<div id="page">

	<div id="masthead">
		<div id="logo"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"<?php if (is_home()) echo(' rel="nofollow"'); ?>><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></div>
		<?php if (is_home()) { ?><h1><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h1><?php } else { ?><div id="tagline"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div><?php } ?>

	</div>
	<div id="rotating_image">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/rotating_images.php'); ?>
	</div>

Again, I don’t know much about HTML, but I am guessing this code pretty much refers back to the stylesheet? I wonder why it’s not changing, seems so simple.

Hey Chris, thanks for working with me on this.

I cleared my cache and made the changes and it’s still there!

Following is the top portion of the index.php code:

<?php $post_count = 1; ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content_box">

		<div id="left_box">

			<div id="content">
<?php 		if (have_posts()) : ?>

				<div id="content_inner">
<?php
				while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<strong>
					<h2<?php if ($post_count == 1) echo(' class="top"'); ?>><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></strong>

The portion that is bolded controls the post titles, I don’t seen anything about the blog title in this section.