TomDolan

Thanks samboll for the guidance.
Tom

Hi samboll,

Thank you for the direction. I went ahead and installed it on the blog, which generated a red banner indicating I should go to the admin page and ‘configure’ the plug-in. OK, fine.

I go to the page, scroll down and I’m confronted with an indecipherable list of stuff. I don’t know what any of it means, so, can I leave it alone and expect it to work? Or not. If I need to make adjustments, is there a location/site/essay that can guide me to make intelligent choices?

Thanx for your time….WP is fun.

Thank you esmi. I don’t know what I was or wasn’t doing but it’s working correctly now and I’m both relieved and a little more knowledgeable.

Hi again esmi,

When I uploaded and inserted the photos, it all happened automatically for me through: ‘insert photo’ in Page Edit. What kind of link…what could it look like?

So if I need to put a link into the destination page for a pdf, do I get the pdf, or a link to the pdf? Do I have a choice? Can I choose page location for the pdf as I could with the photos?

I know this is simple minded stuff for you, but when I know this I don’t have to ask again, and I can help others along who are just getting started. Thank you esmi.

Hi esmi,

Thanx for your interest. The pdf is up on my site in Media, in the list of 5 items I’ve uploaded. In the Media, It is “Attached to” the Page I want it to appear in, but when I open that page it is not there. Back in Media, when I select “View” located under the pdf image, I’m taken to a new Page, that I didn’t create, and on that Page is a link to the pdf. When I select the link, the pdf opens. The Page and the link both have the title of the pdf.

I think this is a matter of correct routing or mapping, but I don’t presume to know if that’s the case. It just seems that I should be able to get the pdf into my desired location…what do you think?

Hey vtxyzzy,

It worked! Yea…looks much cleaner now. How do you know all this stuff?

Truth be told, I was dreading getting into the whole blog development thing. Between the help I’ve received here and on the social forum Triiibes, I’m quite pleased and a bit surprised at the assistance I’ve received.

I hope to be able to return the favor in the future.

Thank you vtxyzzy and thisisedie.

Hi vtxyzzy,

Located the right-side list. In ‘comments’ by counting down, yes…counting down 71 lines I spied this:

<p><small>XHTML: <?php _e(‘You can use these tags:’); ?> <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>

Does that look safe to delete?

Then in Legacy comments, on line 93/ from the top I located this:

<!–<p><small>XHTML: <?php _e(‘You can use these tags:’); ?> <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>–>

Do they look correct to you? So if they are, I just ‘delete’ and update and cross my fingers. Please advise…

Hello again,

Well php looks like some kinda suspicious food additive, but trusting your advice I went to the Theme/edit in the Dashboard and didn’t find anything labeled php. I sen it referenced many times during this odyssey but really don’t know what it is nor where to find it.

BTW, the Theme is from WP.org, a free theme. And still, I can’t convince the sign-in block to “Remember me” and I’m beginning to feel I’ve yet to earn its’ trust. What do you think?

Thanx to thisisedie and vtxyzzy for your input.

thisisedie~

Thanx for checking out the site. Advise me on the XHTML STUFF…I don’t know how to use it, but others may expect it. Might it cause confusion to less techy visitors? And if I want to remove it…how to do it? Pleze keep in mind, I’ve only changed some of the color options in Theme/Edit, nothing else.

The ‘box” I referred to is a sign-in box on my screen showing the last post I made to my site. It’s always there and I thought it might be available to visitors…but happily, no.

Thank you for your consideration.

vtxyzzy,

Thanx for your interest. I have not shown this site to anyone yet so you are the first. I’ve adjusted some colors today and I’m pretty happy with this effort. I am concerned about the font as not all my visitors will be 20-somethings…I don’t think.

If you take a look, tell me if you see XHTML+ CODE located above the “Leave a Reply” box:

I see it on my computer even when I’m not signed in, just visiting. Also, I see a name & email address in the box next to the comments on my computer…do you see this on your computer?

Thank you so much, and yes my computer seems to be very ‘cookie friendly’ -and BTW, those 2 videos are test-only which I will replace w/stunning(?) video-blog info.