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Okay, I realized the path was wrong. :/ I what permission will clear that message you think? I guess I can go 777 and see what happens next.

Stay tuned.

Okay, I figured out what was going on… I had the default for the theme set to one column and not full width.

In case anyone comes across this, it’s important to check all the page layouts not the ones you think make sense.. ??

Let me rephrase what I said above because I just re read what I wrote and I want to make it a little more clear.

I am using the Stained Glass Template at https://www.dadsgamereview.com.

I managed to get the home page down to the way I want it, with two columns, however when you click on the title of each post, the posts’ landing page just shows one column down the middle.

My question is this: What settings in the templates do I go to in order to edit this page so I can make it bigger?

Would I have to edit the css file that is included in the template?

Thanks for any help on this,

Paul

thanks for the help,

that seemed to resolve this issue

Yeah, I was thinking that but was not sure this was what I needed to do.

Thanks for the help with this

ok,

sorry, I tend to know what I want in my head and explain it different in words on the forums.

With that said, I got it working. LOL.. I basically wanted the content from wordpress page 63 inserted into that Books for Sale box on the front page.

I guess it finally sunk in after reading that doc, 20 times or so.

The only thing I want it to do now is link properly to that page.

In that part that href= part with the permalink() can I just put in page_id in there to link the header to that page?

Thanks so much for all your help with this,

Paul

Here is the whole DIV that is called “Books for Sale” in that box on the front page at https://www.corbettcartoons.com.

<div style="width: 278px; min-height: 215px; margin-right: 10px; float: left; background-color: #FFF; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 10px 10px; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid #F3DDAC;">
	<span class="titles-boxes">
	<?php get_a_post(145); ?>
<center><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php
echo get_cat_icon("link=false&echo=false&cat=20");
echo "<br />";
echo "</a>";
?>
</center>
	</span>
	<div style="clear: both;"></div>

  <?php the_content(); ?>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
</div>

I figured that the part that says the_content(); is what holds all the content for that box.

I tried putting in the variable $page_id =63 and then putting that in the the_content(page_id) but it did not pull the content.

Any other thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Paul

from what I read at that link I was under the impression that that code was to pull content from that page and place it right there. Am I wrong in understanding what that says.

As far as th permalink thing I think I did not set the variable that is why it is not working.

OK,

When I replace

<?php get_a_post(145); ?>

with

<?php get_page( $page_id = 63 ); ?>

The information from that page does not show in that box on the front page (books for sale). I get information from another page.

When I do the get_permalink($page_id); it links to post 138.

what am I doing wrong here?

ahhh, ok.

not sure where I got get_a_post from anyway.

Thanks for the help, I will try this out now.

ok, I think I got this backwards.. at least my explaination of what I wanted.

The code that I inserted was correct cause it pulled the info from that page and put it in that box…

What I wanted was the link to that page so I guess I need to know what to put on this line of code:

<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>

thanks for any help or advice on this,

Paul

Alchymyth:

Yes, that link is where I got the example to do this.

My code in that section looks like this,

<div style="width: 278px; min-height: 215px; margin-right: 10px; float: left; background-color: #FFF; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 10px 10px; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid #F3DDAC;">
<span class="titles-boxes">
	<?php get_a_post(145); ?>
<center><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php
	echo get_cat_icon("link=false&echo=false&cat=20");
        echo "<br />";
        echo "</a>";
?>

Right now it is set so when someone clicks on that box on the front page of the site, it goes to that post. I wanted to change it so it links to a certain page.

When I do <?php get_page( $page_id = 63); ?> instead of the get_a_post(145); line I still get a post.

Any thoughts on this?

Well I dicovered that you need another plug in to generate the thumbnails. In each post there has to be a featured image set in order for it to show under each post.

I hope this helps someone

In playing around some more I have had no luck,

If anyone has any clues as to why it is not finding the image in the post that would be a great help.

Thanks Esmi,

I will try this later, I think the thing that did it for me was the wp ecomm plugin that put it over the limit. Once I deleted that, it seemed to work fine.

I will install this though cause I need that plugin.

Thanks again,

Paul