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Hi all,
I selected my self-hosted site as the one I need help with so you would have the link. I had a new idea for a blog called the radio crytic the other day, and was thinking of starting that soon. My site uses a modified version of 2010, so I was wondering what theme would anyone suggest to make my not yet existant site here look similar. Thanks for any help.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. I’m afraid we can’t help you with a self-hosted site here. This support forum is only for free WordPress.com blogs while you are using the open-source WordPress.ORG software. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and different and the available themes and what you can do with them differs vastly: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Please visit the WordPress.org support forum for assistance: http://wordpress.org/support/ If you don’t already have a username on that forum, click the register button in the upper right corner so you can post in that forum.
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You must have misunderstood my question. The only reason I linked to my self-hosted site is so that people would know what I’m looking for. The site I’m looking to start will be hosted here, but I want it to look as close as possible to my self-hosted site.
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All I see is a fairly standard 2010 set up on your self-hosted site.
Maybe if you described in a little more detail about what it is in your modified version of 2010 that you are looking to do here?
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Like Justjennifer, I’m not quite sure what you’re looking for. Can you let us know specifically what you need?
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Neither of you notice that on my wordpress.com site that the blog page is displaying full posts but everything else is displaying excerpts? That’s the biggest issue I have with the way it’s layed out, but there’s also another link to the home page of the site just below the tagline on my wp.com site.
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Whether or not full posts are displayed on Archives and Categories or Tags pages on a WordPress.COM blog is theme dependent.
Your site is at http://bobsairchecks.x10host.com/ is not hosted by WordPress.COM and we do not provide support for powered by wordpress.ORG software installs like it and kokkieh already told you that.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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re: https://bobdavcav.wordpress.com/
Neither of you notice that on my wordpress.com site that the blog page is displaying full posts but everything else is displaying excerpts? That’s the biggest issue I have with the way it’s layed out, but there’s also another link to the home page of the site just below the tagline on my wp.com site.
Create a Home page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
Add the Home page into the custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pagesYou can set your RSS Feed to summary. The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.
Also note what follows please. If you want to display only excerpts on the front page of the blog followed by read more links, you can insert “the more tag” into each post prior to publication.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/The read more tag can be inserted once only into any post to change the front page or main page for posts display from full post to an excerpt. The split in the ext does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.
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Hmm I’ll look into whether or not the more tag does what I want it to do. My concern is that the category and archive pages will display one way, while the front page will display another way. This I will look into with one of the posts on my site currently, but I’d like to have something that will do this automatically if possible. Again, I’ll look into this.
As for my link issue, I already have a custom menu and it doesn’t do the trick. My screen reader reads the page as follows, note the extra link that’s not on my self-hosted site.
“Heading level 1 link Bob’s WebsiteMy Life on the Web
Link Bob’s Website.”
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Just as I feared. Take a look at the two links below and you’ll see what I’m talking about. https://bobdavcav.wordpress.com/category/technology and https://bobdavcav.wordpress.com/blog.
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My concern is that the category and archive pages will display one way, while the front page will display another way…but I’d like to have something that will do this automatically if possible.
Do you mean you want the front page to automatically display an excerpt as well?
Most themes on WordPress.com display full posts on the front/blog page, unless you add the more-tag, while they display only an excerpt on archive and search pages. This is normal behaviour.
As we’ve already pointed out, you don’t see the same behaviour with the same theme on your self-hosted site, as the two versions of WordPress and the two versions of the theme work differently, and as you say above you’re also using a modified version of the theme on your self-hosted site. Those modifications are most likely responsible for the front page excerpts. You won’t be able to make the same modification here.
There are only a small number of themes that do automatically display front page excerpts without using the more-tag. You can find a list of them here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=17#post-1396410
there’s also another link to the home page of the site just below the tagline on my wp.com site.
On WordPress.com site the site title, header image and home-tab of the menu all link to your site’s home page, so that second link your screen-reading software sees is for your site’s header image. I don’t know of a way to disable that link. The third one, your menu’s Home tab, you can disable by deleting the Home tab from your custom menu.
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Let me put this in some sort of order.
1. You are mostly correct. Actually, the theme as it originally ships works pretty much the same on both platforms. You are exactly right, it was interestingly only one small PHP modification and yes it is the one responsible for the front page excerpts. Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out.
2. I don’t mind the home tab, it’s the second link that I wanted to get rid of. -
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Ok one more question likely for staff, I don’t understand the logic behind having a link to the post on its post page.
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Ok one more question likely for staff, I don’t understand the logic behind having a link to the post on its post page.
Do you mean the link from the date? https://cloudup.com/cYqXKFKTVnA
It’s called a “permalink” and it’s a feature of some themes to have the date linked. You’re right, it’s a little redundant, since you’re already on the page, but it’s a bit of a blogging convention to do it.
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No, just above that, the title of the post is a link that is also a heading at level 2. On my self-hosted site there’s no link and the heading is at level 1.
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The link from the post title on individual posts is another permalink – also a bit redundant, I agree. Linking posts titles everywhere used to be a convention on blogs, but is no longer the norm, as you can see on a single post in a more recent theme, like Twenty Fifteen:
https://twentyfifteendemo.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/the-war-of-the-worlds-bk-1/
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