wen.wainwright

I haven’t used that but I can walk you through backing up your site to a computer if you like.

I was able to get it to work with the last example however styling it is another story. It must have a span around it somewhere or something like that because it uses an underline with or without you – or I was tired and missed something. But in general it does work. I wound up telling it to not display the title and description and then added a text widget of them in the sidebar.

I appreciate your looking into this, but unfortunately Twenty Thirteen just isn’t working for this project so I’m going to return to Twenty Twelve. If you have figured out how to make this change I’m happy to plug it all back in and test it and then if someone else wants to do it the directions will be here. So I’ll leave this “open” for a bit.

When I set both to clear: left they disappeared entirely.

I think it was 100% by default. If the <h2> is not inside the <h1> would it still hold both?

Thanks for the advice, I don’t mind helping myself, I’d rather understand it and know what I’m doing. It will probably take me a couple of days to interpret all of this. When you say to go into wp-config.php, do you mean into the parent theme? (I agree cat and dog probably aren’t the best names. I thought it was a little funny for the short run, cat = “categories” and dog = dog “tags” ??

So I went ahead and tried to split up the functions so that the author and date were together and the tags and category were also together but separate from the author and date. It broke it. This, I know, could mean anything from I missed a comma to I have no idea what I’m doing. But if you have the time to look it over I would appreciate it. The mistake could also be in my content.php. I’ll spare you the content.php at this point. I needed to name the half of the entry-meta I was cutting up to something most likely not used elsewhere so it’s cat-dog.

if ( ! function_exists( 'twentytwelve_cat_dog' ) ) :

function twentytwelve_cat_dog() {
$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __) ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

//Translators: 1 is the category, 2 is tag.

if ( $tag_list ) {
	$utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and tagged %2$s.', 'twentytwelve' );
	} elseif ( $categories_list ) {
	$utility_text + __( 'This entry was tagged %2 and posted in %1$s.', 'twentytwelve' );

	}

That is the first half. The author and date are in the edited other half still called “entry-meta.” Let me know if you want the other half and the content.php. Thanks!

I agree that your picture is unclear but here is one way to add a blog:

1. Create one new Page called “Blog”
2. Go to Settings –> Reading and in the select box under “posts page” select “Blog” from the drop down menu.

*It’s a little spot under: Your latest posts, a static page, front page, and then “posts page.”

I haven’t done anything with this other than to make sure it works – which it does. On the test site I tried it on it showed the latest posts in order starting with newest from all of the categories on that blog. I didn’t try to sort the information or anything like that.

Thanks! I have looked into those but don’t want to add them to the time commitment to this project. The reality is that she wants to for sure control what people see first in order to not lose people by them not being able to find what they want. But really everyone is used to searching for something and everyone expects dynamic content that refreshes every time they look. I’ve talked her into drop down categories on the top nav bar. I think. The whole point of all of this is for content management after all.

I have/am using custom menus with both Pages and Categories. If the Page name is “recipes” and the category name is “recipes” how will you tell them apart? I’ve tried using just the Page “recipe” and have assigned the individual recipe posts “recipeitems” but while that works (and isn’t visible anywhere) it doesn’t feel like the right answer. Yes the links work and yes you find those recipes via the search form…but somehow it doesn’t feel “right.” She wants a fully static Page called “Recipes” to which she will add additional recipe links as she goes. She wants you to click on those links on that static Page “Recipes” and go to individual posts. I’m having a hard time figuring out the best structure in regards to those individual posts.

Never mind. I’m clearly very tired! If anyone else can’t figure this out the “file link” to the icon that you need is to the right in the giant “save” box. I was looking at the https:// address above the icon in the edit media window.

OK. Tried it out. Definitely resolved.

Great! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I’ve been playing around in the custom-header.php file and not getting anywhere (for obvious reasons).

Oh, and should I copy the entire file to a child theme file or just add the part that I need?

Here’s a link to the tutorial