tracigilbert

@rdellconsulting =) Sorry if I broke a rule! I marked this resolved. Again thanks for all the help last night. I am very happy with the site and what is starting to look like.

Thanks again…

Traci

Where in California? I have been looking at moving to La Quinta. Got the moving pack and everything =)

That is very nice of you =)I wish when I have issues with this, I did have someone sitting next to me.

I have always built sites with graphics, photoshop, code, dreamweaver and things. I tell ya what once you get the hang of wordpress it is the best thing since peanut butter. =)

I am on face book… tracianngilbert… look me up sometime.. =)

Thank you again you rock and next time I am out in California we shall have that beer and dinner =)

Okay, so if you lived in Minnesota, I would take you to dinner and buy you a beer as well. =) Thank you so much for sitting and helping me all this time. I so appreciate everything you have done to help me get this right.

It is now PERFECT!!!

The category thing is gone, the video’s show up, the news on the first page and click to see the video…

I am very very happy right now… =)

Feeling accomplished… I am learning this wordpress stuff =)

You can see what I mean if you look at it now. I added another news item with text and a video and it just streams the page. I do have post summary clicked under the settings>reading, but I still get the entire story…

https://drugserasedreams.org/category/news/

sorry I have one more question. I didn’t have this before and now I do. Category Archive what is that and how do I get rid of it… I don’t want that on the pages at all… That must be part of the posts-blog thing???

I cleared my cache, shut all my browsers off, and restarted… followed your directions and check it out! https://drugserasedreams.org/category/news/

Now here is the hard part of all of this… Can I add text to this post or am I better off leaving it alone?

I really don’t want the video on the main page but where there is some text like the one below it and then you click on the title to see everything and that is where the video is… If that is not possible.. I will live with it, but that is what I was trying to do when this mess happened to begin with =)

I am so mad at myself because I had it working fine on my first try, and then I went to add text, and I broke it and ever since I haven’t been able to get it to work. I am now almost 2 hours into trying to fix this and it is making me crazy

I didn’t get it to work. Maybe I am just doing it wrong because I have been trying for so long. Here is what I did by step.

1. Went to posts>clicked on add new
2. Under format clicked on video
3. Under category clicked on news
4. Made sure that I was on the text mode
5. Clicked on media>add from url
6. Pasted url into the line
7. Left the title spot empty on that page
8. Clicked insert into post
9. Clicked publish
10. This is what I get on the news category page: https://drugserasedreams.org/category/news/

11. This is what I get on the main page, where the video should be:
https://drugserasedreams.org/sfcda-planning-meeting-channel-5-coverage/

I really need this to work, almost all their coverage is news video from local news stations. =(

The first part worked great =) They are now on separate pages… Now the front page feature image does not work because that must be a page… I can deal with that though I can just change something else into that featured page on the front splash page. I am okay with that, and really don’t want to waste anymore time trying to figure that entire mess out =) There is plenty of stuff on this website I can use as a featured page… So thank you for assisting me with that issue. I am going to go try the video instructions you gave me, and I will let you know in a second if it worked for me this time.

=)

https://www.themesandco.com/customizr/

This is where I have been looking for information, but I can’t seem to find answers here just shows you what it should look like.

In the theme there is a quick set up or customizr and it has a front page option. Here you pick if it is static or post. So I chose static, it also asks you to choose a post page and I chose community stories. If I change that option nothing loads on either page (community stories or news) So I am not sure on that.

If I delete my two pages, community stories and news and just have categories then how do you get to the pages from my main navigation on the top? I guess I am not understanding how I fix that issue…

If you go here: https://kstp.com/news/stories/S3212079.shtml?cat=1

you will see the video and on the bottom right there is a little button that says share video. When you click on the button it gives you choices. So I chose embed and the one without the playlist. When I did that it gave me the following code, when I clicked copy code.

<iframe frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” src=”https://eplayer.clipsyndicate.com/embed/iframe?aspect_ratio=16×9&auto_next=0&auto_start=0&page_count=4&pf_id=8302&pl_id=16462&rel=3&show_title=0&tags=default&va_id=4625659&volume=8&windows=1&#8243; width=”425″ height=”330″></iframe>

** If I understand you about the first past, I need to delete those two links as pages and make them into categories? I am not sure how to do this part at all ** I have news as a page and community stories as a page. Then I also made categories both news and community. I have the community story posts checked on the post page, and I have the news posts, checked for the news category and everything shows up on the community stories page… =(

Here is the first issue. I am trying to make to completely separate “blog” type pages. One is called community stories and the other news. I set my blog page to community stories (as the directions said) but by doing that it puts all my posts for both community stories and news under community stories. you can see that here: https://drugserasedreams.org/community-stories/

The top story should be under news here: https://drugserasedreams.org/inside-sfcda/news

Which you can see it is not. =( I am not sure how to separate the two. I have tried like 6 different ways I have found on the forum and none work.

The next issue is I read about the video format for posts. But could not find a tutorial on how to really do it. I am going to be embedding video from mostly news sources that cover the non profit. The first one is located here: https://kstp.com/news/stories/S3212079.shtml?cat=1

I had it working once like I said, now nothing is working. =(

Thanks about the design, it has taken me a long time to get this done. I have read hundreds of pages of tutorials and taken tons of notes on how to use this theme =) I just saw that there is an update for the theme and I am afraid to do it. If it killed the site I would surely cry….
Thanks again for any assistance
Traci

Sorry, I just noticed this as well… the post I am making are showing up in my other blog page here: https://drugserasedreams.org/community-stories/

omg… overwhelmed with why everything changed on me…

Thank you for helping me I really appreciate it. I am donating my time to make this for the SFCDA program that just started in my area.

I did what you indicated above. That works wonderfully for getting rid of the white boxes. =)

If you go back to the page: https://drugserasedreams.org/drug-facts-2/
can you tell me how or what I need to do to make the bottom 3 columns with the drug name links closer together.

Also, if you look close at the first two icons you can see little white lines. I looked at the code and don’t know why that is happening.

I do know I am not using dreamweaver anymore to create these pages. I thought it would be faster, but it fills the pages with to much worthless code that is not needed. I am not going to go back and do this one, but from here on out I will just code myself. Much faster I am assuming too.

Thanks again in advance for your assistance. It is appreciated.