rickaltman

I appreciate you sending me that link; however, I have already read that page and I’m not able to follow it. There is some cognitive gap that I’m just not able to bridge when it comes to setting up RSS feeds.

I’m using a child theme of Genesis.

Where is that? Is it on my server? How do I access it directly?

Otto, I would be willing to use widgets, but they seem to offer less flexibility; or perhaps I should say that I just don’t understand them well enough. Take the About… widget that I created at https://www.betterppt.com/blog — somehow I got the text below the head to read “About Rick Altman,” although I have no idea when or how, and if I edit that text widget, nowhere does it allow me to change that text. My Archives show up with a head of Blogroll, but I didn’t set that head. The widgets are just too mysterious to me, so I either need to move away from them or understand them better. As a proponent of them, Otto, I would be happy to have you sell me on them — is there a good tutorial that would help me see the light?

I’m guessing that advanced users, those who want more control over their pages, and/or those who have webmastering experience prefer to work directly with the PHP files. Would you (all) agree with that?

So widgets are an entirely separate entity, using an altogether different methodology. Interesting…

What do most people do, create widgets or edit PHP files? How about those reading this thread? I’m conducting a mini poll…

Rick A.

Thanks, macsoft — that is the very first place I looked after adding widgets to my sidebar. No luck — the sidebar.php file bears no resemblance whatsoever to my actual sidebar. In fact, I can find no files at all in the wp-content folder that have a current date and time.

This is quite a mystery to me…