steveninaus

Great work Benjamin. The summary works well, so readers won’t be faced with the full length of my posts on first appearance, and will be able to choose which reflection to read. I’m still new to blogging to I’m learning how to use the tools and what I can get out of available templates etc. The support is very much appreciated.

Thanks for the comment Jose. I started the blog using the “Church” theme, which displayed a summary of the text, along with a “read more” label, when I had made “Settings” show summary, but when I changed over to the Ecclesiatical theme it didn’t. Benjamin is working on getting the theme to display as I need.

The only problem I had with the summary display in “Church” was that superscripts (showing the bible verse in the passage I used) were displayed as ordinary numbers, making reading the text a little more difficult.

Addendum to last comments on this them of multisite:

Whether it was wise or not, I created “reflections” as a sub-directory of wordpress and copied all the other subdirectories of wordpress into that directory. That gave me access to most of the workings. However, I now have a “welcome” message which wordpress insists on calling “auto-draft” and if I click on “View post” from the ‘edit post’ screen I get an error message with the address line showing wordpress was trying to open the non-existent “auto-draft” in the reflections directory.

Next issue in the sage:
If I select “Add New” from the Dashboard of my second blog, provide a sub-directory as the URL for the site (e.g. …wordpress/decline), include a brief description and admin password, then click “Add Site” then WordPress looks for the “wp-admin” directory under the new site name (i.e. …/wordpress/decline/wp-admin), even though “decline” hasn’t been created.

Plea to any developers who might be looking: can we please have a very simple UI to set up and activate multiple blogs on the one account?

Hello ThemeSumo. Thanks for the help so far.
I have followed all the instructions as well as I can, and now have two sites listed on my Dashboard. However, when I choose to “visit” my ‘Reflections’ blog from the “my-sites” page I get a lot of unformatted text. If I choose “dashboard” the software tries to find files in ../reflections/wp-admin, which doesn’t exist.

What have I done wrongly?
Steven

Thanks aschmidt8. Canaca does have a link for WordPress, though I found it in the local software, which wasn’t all that intuitive. What took me hours to upload with cPanel took less than a minute to do onsite when I had found the link. Apart from some irritations with username/password combinations everything appears to have gone smoothly. I was able to modify settings and save them, and to access themes, so it should be ready for my wife to start uploading book reviews. One thing I noted along the way: I had dowloaded the English version of WordPress, which, among other things, allowed me to specify a date format such as 4th September 2016, but the version on Canaca didn’t offer that, though I was able (because I’d paid attention when trying to get the original working) to set the date format. I was also able to select Australian English, and noted words like “favourite” spelled as we do here.

The host is canaca.com
I did a completely new installation – hadn’t used WordPress before the week just gone.