RobertF

OK, that’s interesting. Just for my edification, what was being caught as spam?

Thanks.

And any insight into the question. ??

I did this exact thing with my site a few years ago. I originally had a regular website and a WP blog but wanted to combine everything and use WP for all.

Unfortunately I don’t remember all of the steps.

In the WordPress Admin, Settings>General you need to set your WordPress address field to https://www.mysite.com/blog. Then in the Site Address field it should read https://www.mystite.com (or .ca or whatever the site suffix).

Then, in the background of the site you set up a new folder called blog and in that folder you’ll copy all the files from your original blog location. Your index.php file will go in the main public directory for your site. That file will be your original main blog page (e.g., mysite.com/blog.html) that gets renamed as index.php.

I think those are the steps but don’t recall 100%.

So you get the information you wanted and then do nothing with it. Wonderful. Did you take personal delight in being condescending and sarcastic? Does it give you pleasure to see WP users who are having difficulty with their sites? Generally forum moderators are positive and actually helpful. You might want to try that approach some time.

OK, then my understanding is incorrect. That’s fine. I have no problem with that. If that’s what you need to know then why not just ask upfront rather than taking the condescending route that is your default?

The theme is Easel 2.0.7. The site is thevicarioustraveler.com. The static landing page is set up as the Welcome page. The blog posts page was Articles. For the time being, I’ve amended the site so that there is no established Posts page and I’ve manually set up the Articles page to appear more the way I would like.

What appears if the Articles page is set up as the Posts page is just the article title. Other information such as post date, author and tags can also appear but those can be turned off in the theme options.

It is my understanding that if a static front page is used and a different page for blog posts that the text of the post or an excerpt (via use of the More tag) doesn’t show up using any theme and that only the post title appears. Therefore the site URL and theme shouldn’t be relevant.

If it would be possible for you to not be your usual condescending self, I may be prepared to answer questions. If; however, you are going to continue in your usual, unhelpful, internet-bully manner then I’d suggest you simply don’t respond any further and perhaps I can carry the discussion on with other who will be more willing to have a rational and reasoned discussion and who actually want to help.

As I noted, I already have the static front page and the static blog (post) page set up. And yes, I did that using Settings>Readings. That’s all done. Your link does not, as far as I can tell, answer the question I asked.

Guess the answer is no.

Yeah, as I said in my original message I did that. That’d be this sentence: “I tried the support link on WP.com…..” Got no response. WP.org and WP.com are related. Figured I’d try here as well.

I have a tables plugin already installed. Hadn’t thought of that.

Inline CSS is the same way I created the different paragraph backgrounds for the site linked in my initial post. I can play around with that as well.

Using a table may be the easist way though.

Thanks.

Thanks. No, it was just the plugin on its own. After emailing the developer directly and not getting a response, I ended up bagging the plugin and doing it directly with the code from FB, as you noted. Seems to be working fine now.

Resolved.

I used class. Missed putting the ‘.’ in the CSS.

Without anything in the CSS, the new div appears as it should. But when I put anything in the CSS, the new div disappears and the formatting gets applied where it shouldn’t.

Since this new div is going above the header, I put the CSS directly above the /*Headings*/ section of the CSS. The new div disappeared and the styling got applied to a sidebar. If I put the new styling under the /*Headings*/ section and directly above the h1 (main header), the new div disappears and styling gets applied nowhere (that I can see).

EDIT: I determined the problem, but not how to fix it. I want to fix this new div in position at the top of the page so it doesn’t scroll. With position: fixed; the div disappears. If I remove the fixed positioning so that the div scrolls, it’s fine.

Thanks.

No one else is experiencing this or has figured out how to fix it?

The ‘test’ is a word in a text widget. As mentioned, this theme allows for widgets in more places than just the sidebars. My intent is to eventually have advertisements in those places. I’d like the widget to stay in place so the advert remains on screen when people scroll.

Yes but be careful about fixing too much or the design will start to become fragile and break down easily.

If I wanted to ‘risk it’ ;-), where would the CSS be modified? There’s nothing in the style.css that I can see that deals with these text widgets.

Wasn’t questioning that it could work. Just wondered if there was another way without the additional coding. And there’s not. I’ve managed to get it sorted, I think. Had to add some margins and put finite sizes on the header, description and menu but I think it works now. Did something similar with the sidebars as well so those are fixed in place now too.

Another related question: Is it possible to make widgets fixed and not scrolling? The theme I’m using allows for widgets above the header and above the text body (see the words ‘test’ in a couple places). Can those be made to be fixed as well?

Thanks.

EDIT: That’s pretty slick peredur, but beyond my coding skills. ??