Please help with setup issues.
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This is my first website/blog, and I’m having difficulty with some facets of setup:
The photo of my book’s cover, installed originally as my header for the blog page (but I want it removed) still shows on the blog page. How can I remove it? I do want it on my home page, where it is now. The edit mode for my blog page shows no photo or narrative, both of which show in regular mode.
The first three pages should be static: Home, About the Author, and Selections from the Book (and perhaps a fourth page besides the blog page). I want only the Blog page to accept and manage message traffic. So far I have been unable to set that up.
The grate-looking button on the left side of my window is not a user-friendly device to show users how to get to other pages. I’d prefer a listing across the top of the page where the page names are displayed.
I want a place to display links to other websites, but I’m having difficulty doing that. Maybe a separate static page? What is the best way?
I probably shouldn’t use my personal email address for business. I saw how to create a virtual email address (probably will be: (email visible only to moderators and staff)). What is the best way to use it for business? Use it only thru my blog? Should I use such an address with Facebook, Google and other social media? Or my personal address?
I prefer to show my widgets anywhere but the bottom of the page, where they are now, but I don’t know how to move them.
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Hi Walt,
Before we begin I noticed you said that you want your widget anywhere but the bottom of the page and your menu at the top of the page instead of the side. But please note that the theme you chose: Syntax, only allows widgets at the bottom of the page and places the menu to the left. So, if you want them somewhere else, it might be best to choose a different theme:
If you’re looking for something similar I recommend taking a look at this new theme called Suits. It has widgets in the sidebar and the menu at the top of the page.
Also, it looks like you set Front page as this page: The Book: “Roadside Survival: Low-Tech Solutions to Automobile Breakdowns” at Settings > Reading in your Dashboard – Since you uploaded the book cover image on that page, it is showing up on your Front page. You should create a different “Home” page and set that as the Front Page. Please note the Posts page is the page where all your posts will show up. Just for reference here’s a great guide that shows you the difference between a page and a post.
I want a place to display links to other websites, but I’m having difficulty doing that. Maybe a separate static page? What is the best way?
I would say the best way to do this is the Links Widget.
What is the best way to use it for business? Use it only thru my blog? Should I use such an address with Facebook, Google and other social media? Or my personal address?
You can do this by setting up Email Forwarding. It’s fairly simple to set up!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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Grace,
Thank you for that quick response!
I changed themes, to “Suits”, as you suggested, which provides the menu at the top. Good fix.
In the header, how do I enlarge the font of “Low-Tech Solutions to Automobile Breakdowns”?
I intended for the page, “The Book: Roadside Survival…..”, to be the first, or “Front” page. The main purpose now for this website is to promote the book. I don’t want to clutter the other pages with widgets. How do I get the widgets to appear only on the blog page? Now they appear on all pages.
I want all blog dialogue (Posts: “Comment”; “Leave a Reply”) to appear only on the blog page. Now these dialogue functions appears on all pages.
All links also appear on all pages. I prefer to have only two on the front page: one under link category, “Video on Roadside Survival: Is This You?” (only to show why to read the book), and a second link “Click Here to Order the Book”, which will go right to Amazon. I’d like other links of more variety dealing with roadside survival, to appear on the separate page, “Links: Roadside Survival”; current link category names for those links: “Roadside Survival-Related Links” and “Sources for Roadside Survival Equipment”. How can I separate the locations for these different categories of links?I would like to share the website with social media. But “Share this” appears only on my “Links: Roadside Survival” page.
I don’t really understand why I should have a second email address (say, (email visible only to moderators and staff)), except to separate my personal and business mail. I think I can set one up OK, but I’m fuzzy on why and how to use it. I suppose one is needed for Facebook and other social networks. But do I need one for blog dialogues? Where would I go to open, receive, and respond to a second address?The blog page shows the image for my book’s cover; I would prefer that image not show there. The reason may be that initially I set up that image as a gravitar for my comments. How can I remove the image currently on the blog page, which may be tied to the single post I made.
Thank You,
Walt (Website Novice)
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HI Walt,
In the header, how do I enlarge the font of “Low-Tech Solutions to Automobile Breakdowns”?
You can do this by editing the CSS. Go to Appearance > Customize in your Dashboard and go to the tab that says CSS. Erase the information there and past in this:
.site-description { font-size : 30px; }You can change around the 30 (larger or smaller) to get the exact font-size that you want.
I intended for the page, “The Book: Roadside Survival…..”, to be the first, or “Front” page. The main purpose now for this website is to promote the book. I don’t want to clutter the other pages with widgets. How do I get the widgets to appear only on the blog page? Now they appear on all pages.
You can also do this by editing the CSS. In that same section, add this:
.page-id-70 .sidebar-container { display: none; }This will only remove the widget on that specific page.
I want all blog dialogue (Posts: “Comment”; “Leave a Reply”) to appear only on the blog page. Now these dialogue functions appears on all pages.
I have removed the Leave a Reply section on all the pages beside the Blog page. Once you have blog posts, they should all appear there. In the future, if you want to enable or disable comments in bulk on pages/posts, please go to Pages or Posts (whichever you want change). The check off the box to the left of “Title”. This will check all the pages or posts (uncheck the ones you don’t want to change) and go to the dropdown menu labelled Bulk Actions. Select Edit and hit Apply. Then you will the section labelled Comments. In the drop down menu next to Comments, select the option you want and hit Apply. Then you should be set!
All links also appear on all pages. I prefer to have only two on the front page: one under link category, “Video on Roadside Survival: Is This You?” (only to show why to read the book), and a second link “Click Here to Order the Book”, which will go right to Amazon.
I couldn’t find the link to the Click Here to Order the Book, but you can remove the other two links on the front page by editing the CSS. Add this in to your CSS as well:
.page-id-70 #linkcat-208158422 { display: none; } .page-id-70 #linkcat-208156225 { display: none; }I’d like other links of more variety dealing with roadside survival, to appear on the separate page, “Links: Roadside Survival”; current link category names for those links: “Roadside Survival-Related Links” and “Sources for Roadside Survival Equipment”. How can I separate the locations for these different categories of links?
Links: Roadside Survival is a page, so you can add links on a page through this support guide.
I would like to share the website with social media. But “Share this” appears only on my “Links: Roadside Survival” page.
It looks like you did not set up sharing buttons on these pages. Please edit the pages and you will see a section at the bottom of the edit page to show sharing button. It will look something like this:
Make sure to click Update at the top. I already did this as a test on your About the Author page. Please do this to the pages you want this to appear on.
As for sharing automatically, this would not be the case for pages (only for posts), check out Publicize. This allows you to connect your social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter. Every post will automatically share on the accounts you set up.
I don’t really understand why I should have a second email address (say, (email visible only to moderators and staff)), except to separate my personal and business mail. I think I can set one up OK, but I’m fuzzy on why and how to use it. I suppose one is needed for Facebook and other social networks. But do I need one for blog dialogues? Where would I go to open, receive, and respond to a second address?
You wouldn’t need separate email addresses for different Social Media sites. You can, but I think that would make everything very confusing. I would rather just have one email account and separate everything through labels. If you want to separate personal and business that’s fine, but again, that would be your preference.
The blog page shows the image for my book’s cover; I would prefer that image not show there. The reason may be that initially I set up that image as a gravitar for my comments. How can I remove the image currently on the blog page, which may be tied to the single post I made.
I have removed that from the blog page. It is empty currently since you have not published any posts yet. In addition, I helped you set up Custom Menus. This makes it easy to move around your Menu to get exactly what you want. Check it out by going to Appearance > Menus in your Dashboard!
It looks like you are just starting out with WordPress.com, so I recommend you go through our new user’s guide:
In 10 quick steps, you’ll learn about all the best and most useful features of WordPress.com, with lots of screenshots and videos.
You can also browse our support documentation and check out the forums – you might find the answer you’re looking for.
In addition, I know I used a bit of CSS to get what you wanted. Most of our CSS support is done in our community forums by both staff and volunteers:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization
When you create a CSS-related help request, please make sure to select or link to the WordPress.com blog you’re working on and include a clear description of the change you’re trying to make. It helps a lot.
To learn more about how CSS editing works at WordPress.com, see this help page:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
If you need to hire a consultant to help you with in-depth design work or large CSS revisions, please consider getting a quote from Tweaky:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/customize-my-site/request-theme-customization/
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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Grace,
Thank you again for that great response. The site is much closer to what I want.
Regarding the “share” function: what is the difference whether “Share This” is on one page or all pages? I’d like for everyone to see the entire site. What does “share” refer to?
How do I re-sequence the items as seen in the menu at the tops of pages? I would like the “Links” page to appear 4th, not 1st. In “page attribute” mode, the “Links” page is designated 4th in order.
I have tried unsuccessfully, using every angle I can think of, with the support functions, to assign a category of links to a specific page. “Edit Link” seems the most promising avenue, but it apparently does not permit me to assign link categories to pages. My objective: place all links as footers as follows: link category “Video on Roadside Survival: Is this You?” belongs only at bottom of page, “The Book: ….”. Link category “Roadside Survival-related Links” belongs only at bottom of page, “Links: Roadside…”; same for link category “Sources for Roadside Survival Equipment”. Right now, two or more of the link categories are on the “About the Author” page, the “ Selections” page, the “Links” page, and the “Blog” page. I would like to know how to assign the link categories to specific pages; I assume at this point that the key is to assign link locations by their categories.
Sincerely,
Walt
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Regarding the “share” function: what is the difference whether “Share This” is on one page or all pages? I’d like for everyone to see the entire site. What does “share” refer to?
Share This is the ability for readers to share that page. If you only want readers sharing a certain page, only put it on one page. If you want it on all, put it on all. In addition, you can share posts as well. Here’ s a support guide on the difference between posts and pages:
How do I re-sequence the items as seen in the menu at the tops of pages? I would like the “Links” page to appear 4th, not 1st. In “page attribute” mode, the “Links” page is designated 4th in order.
You can do this by setting up Custom Menus. You can drag around the pages to order them however you want.
My objective: place all links as footers as follows: link category “Video on Roadside Survival: Is this You?” belongs only at bottom of page, “The Book: ….”. Link category “Roadside Survival-related Links” belongs only at bottom of page, “Links: Roadside…”; same for link category “Sources for Roadside Survival Equipment”. Right now, two or more of the link categories are on the “About the Author” page, the “ Selections” page, the “Links” page, and the “Blog” page. I would like to know how to assign the link categories to specific pages; I assume at this point that the key is to assign link locations by their categories.
Please note the Footer Widgets apply to the entire site, not a certain page. If you want different links at the bottom of each page, it would be best to just edit the page and add the specific links on each page. For example, you can just edit the page and type “Video on Roadside Survival: Is this You?” at the bottom of the page, and add links underneath like this.
Happy Blogging!
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Grace,
At last my site looks like I want! Hopefully the blog functions will work too. If not, I may get back with you.
Thank you so much for your help!
How ’bout take a peek at it to see.
Walt Brinker
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Hi Walt,
It looks like the cover image is not loading properly. Can you reupload the image in your Media > Library page and set that as your Featured Image for this post:
Besides that, everything looks amazing! Great job!
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For some reason, Facebook terminated the old account I had under my long-standing email address, “(email visible only to moderators and staff)”, and I cannot get them to dialog with me to find out why.
I want to use Facebook to help with marketing. I was advised to just set up a second email address for Facebook. Which option under WordPress support would be best: Email Forwarding? Its text says the recipient of forwarded emails will still see my existing email address on emails I send them, and not the new email address I set up using email forwarding. I use Outlook, whose instructions are unclear – to me anyway.
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Hi Walt,
The simplest and easiest way would be through Email Forwarding. But, they will see your existing email.
However, if you don’t want that and want to set up your own email hosting please view this link here. It is a bit difficult for Outlook, but you can find step by step instructions here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/add-email/add-outlook-email/
Please note that I do not have access to your Outlook account so I wouldn’t be able to help with this on their end.
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