stevewilson

Thanks to you both. Sounds like we’re safe. No “&”s used. But I’ll certainly take up your suggestion to ask again at engine forums.

More reassurance. It’s been a good day. Thanks Theme Diva

Thanks for the reassurance — and the fastest reply I’ve ever gotten anywhere. Upward and onward.

NicoJulius,

Don’t spend time answering. I just figured out how it is meant to work by a kind of logical system deduction, not anything that is apparent. I’m surprised there is no proper manual out there. (Contact Form 7’s own is execrable). I’d be happy to collaborate on such a document as I stumble along making discoveries.

Steve

All three forms (“Form”, “Mail”, “Mail(2)”) have left and right panels. The left panels of all three have default entries such as the site’s e-mail address that it has picked up from elsewhere and “[your-name] <[your-email]>”. In the right panel of “Form” is a dropdown — “Generate Tags”. The right panels of both “Mail” forms are titled “Message body:”. If I generate a tag such as “email” I’m told to copy one tag into the left side of “Form” and the other straight down into the “Message body” panel of “Mail”. The defaults in the left panel of “Mail” remain unchanged. Doesn’t seem right. I would think “Message body” is intended only for something we would be saying to the reader. So I copied into the *left* panel of “Mail” instead.

Right or wrong, I think it would help to see the result, assuming this can be edited and changed repeatedly. So I have attempted somethingorother and Saved. But I still don’t see how to get it into the Page I’ve created for it. Could you advise how to do so?

Thank you for hanging in there with me.

Thanks for getting back to me.

“Forms” > “Edit”? I don’t have that in the left menu of 3.1.1. There is “Plug-Ins” of which Contact Form 7 is one. It has a “Settings” option. That has s section labeled “Form” with a number of <p>…</p> entries, and below that a “Mail” form and a “Mail(2)” form. If any of these pertain, I don’t know which nor (if one of them pertains) do I see how to connect it to the target page.

Thanks. I’ll assume that’s it and try installing at the server end.

Thank you for the fix. I’ll give it another try.

JPry,

Thanks for the further advice!

Steve

> Does that make sense.

I think I get it. For example, in a 3-column layout, “category-2” might be assigned to posts meant for column 2 and they would therefore be summoned in their own loop.

If that’s correct, a question though: if the items are retrieved by default in the date-time sequence they were posted (which I believe is how WP fundamentally works), how would one alter the sequence so as to move, say, the 3rd item into the 2nd slot in the column (and the 2nd into the 3rd slot)?

Thanks to you both — especially for the trouble taken to supply code. I suspected the answer might be to assign each article its own category (and then presumably use CSS to place it).

We’re encouraged to press on. I’d like to say undaunted, however…

We’ll have a look at ThemeForest; hopefully it has a multi-column theme to give us a jump start.

(By the way, would have responded much sooner but had log in problems)

If I read you correctly, it sounds like your browser is cacheing the website page. Look into the browser’s help to find how to clear cache.

Voodoo Man:

You are a genius. I renamed the .html, tried https://localhost/wordpress and it worked — even displayed the child rather than the daddy.

Thanks much for all your help. On to the next roadblock.

Steve

There is an index.php and an index.html at:

XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\

then another index.php (only) at all of these:

XAMPP\xampp\
XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\phpMyAdmin\
XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\
XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\
XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\
XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentyten\

Don’t know what to make of it all. As you have seen, XAMPP unaccountably installed itself in:

c:\XAMPP\xampp

localhost/index.php or https://localhost/index.php continued to fill in https://localhost/xampp/
and take me to that page.

Thanks for hanging in there with me. All pretty baffling.

Rev. Voodoo,
Thanks for replying. No matter whether I enter…
localhost
or
https://localhost
the browser fills in
https://localhost/xampp
and up comes Xampp’s page. The theme is in the folder below, at the same depth as the parent:

themes
    twentyten
    twentyten-child
upgrade

Both themes have been “activated”, first twentyten then the child, after I adopted the child, with those actions acknowledged by the dashboard. But when I try:
https://localhost/twentyten-child
I get the “Object not found” screen. Or did you mean that I should enter the full path? Or backward slashes?
I hope you can spot what I’ve done wrong.