samidmatt

In case anyone else is having trouble with the shadow under images, you might have to add the !important tag. At least, I had to, otherwise it wouldn’t work.

Btw, thanks @hannah, your snippet to remove the shadow helped helped once I added the !important tag.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by samidmatt.

@staartmees

No. That’s not an option. Neither is using categories. Besides, my post is not a “help request”, it is an actual WP development request. If a non-developer comes to the forum for help, no one would sit down with them and explain everything from A-Z. It would it be simpler and better for them to have an official WordPress integrated tool.

The issue with plugins is simple: if there is only one person developing it, that person may cease maintaining it altogether at some point. Or, if it’s a group, they may pass to something else. Furthermore, a company may outright refuse that their developer/integrator use plugins.

In either case, you would either be forced to use a plugin that may be insecure through time, or wait until someone else creates one of their own. Or, most probably, continue to do things manually. But, a non-developer would most likely be incapable of doing so, and would most likely keep a non-updated plugin on their website.

Ultimately, with platforms like Wix who possess a superior intuitive tool (drag and drop), it is merely a matter of time before such platforms surpass WordPress in terms of usability and ease of access. For WordPress to continue producing a superior platform geared towards usability, the develpment team has to create that environment for non-developers. It would make no sense for the WP developer to assume that most users are developers. Hence why platforms like Wix have surged through the DIY web market.

Hi Steve. That’s what I would, as a user, enjoy about WordPress if it came to pass. Where, instead of using categories and some backend coding, there would have those options implemented from the get-go. The reality is that there are a boatload of users who won’t know how to code, or even understand the logic behind using categories, or what you would mean by talking about function.php or creating page templates. No every company, magazines etc. will hire an integrator or web developer.

@bcworkz you are 100% correct, I do not yet have a grasp on this. I am familiar with PHP (in terms of integration), but I don’t have much experience with the backend of WP to be fully capable of understanding how it works. I have quickly input that code into that template page to see the result of doing so, and it worked. I will have to modify the style now though, as I’ll have to make it look like the default blog page – so, I should be good to do that. Initially, I was confused by what mguay was saying, since it referred to the functions.php page, which threw me off completely. I think I might have badly explained what I was speaking about in my first post, hence my confusion after his post. In any event, I truly appreciate your help in explaining what you explained, as well as @mguay22 in providing some tools and code.

Thanks you, both of you!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by samidmatt.

Hi @mguay22

Even after I (especially) read the page about the loop, I couldn’t resolve this issue. Even reading those links (and several others like the pre_get_posts), I can’t seem to do one thing – which is what I’m having issues with.

Basically, I have a custom page that is not the main blog page. And I can’t seem to have any blog post appear on this custom made template page.

Although, the way I am processing the information (me that is), I can have my main blog page with whatever amount of posts. BUT, I cannot fathom how to do so specifically for a custom made template page. I am basically having issues in terms of controlling my template page.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by samidmatt.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by samidmatt.

I was able to use the following in a new header.php in the child-theme:

<img src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/images/image.jpg" />

Though I am very interested in understanding more what you are trying to say. Perhaps I could play with your code, if only I had more information about what you wanted me to do with it.

When you speak about placing a div somewhere, this would imply placing HTML coding inside a “post” or “page”. But, I’m not trying to do this. I’d like to be able input my own design, and thus add some images and what not within the child-theme. I don’t want to deal with WP from the admin area.

Unless you mean placing it in a specific WP .php page, I wouldn’t know which one you’re referring to.

I don’t want to use CSS to modify this. I am talking about adding multiple images. Adding one as background image is one thing, but adding new ones, such as specific shapes, elegant borders etc. cannot be added via that method.

Ok, say this theme: https://demo.fabthemes.com/revera/

Imagine replacing the colour background and adding an image there.

I created one, yes.

I don’t want to replace an image. I want to ADD an image. I can easily use CSS to “remove” the coloured rectangle (which is what it is for now). But, adding an image is where I’m lost. Normally this would be very easy using HTML while hardcoding it. But using WP to do it, I’m having trouble doing that.

EDIT: I realize I could probably add an image as background in the class, but I don’t want to do that. I want to be able to add multiple images if need be.

Yes. The theme I have is a child theme, which I want to be able to modify so I can practice creating/modifying WP sites.

That link doesn’t explain what I’m looking to do. It allowed me to create a child theme and make some mods, but not what I wrote in my OP.

I thought it might have been something to do with having to put in extra coding at the beginning or something of that nature. Since WordPress is not very explicit with their explanation about creating a child function. So, I’m glad as well ?? Thank goodness it was only removing the bom encoding. Thanks again!

No, that’s not a snippet. That is the entirety of the child function code lol. I wanted to merely test the functions page to make sure it would appear before trying more extensive functions ??

Thanks, I took it for granted that the way I saved it was in fact the correct way. Or rather, with the correct encoding. However, I had not. I had encoded it using BOM8. So I removed it, and now it works as it should.

Ok. I sent one there. But, nonetheless, I’m still wondering if I’ve properly created the functions page in the child version. I know WordPress itself explains how to create the child themes. To your knowledge, have I properly created my functions page?