Zero to Hero: Day Twenty
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Day 20 — two-thirds of the way! Give yourselves a virtual pat on the back.
Tomorrow, we’ll be back to posting, but today, we’re revisiting pages — you’re going to add another one. Check out the main Zero to Hero page for the details.
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Am I a cheater or an overachiever when I’ve already done this as part of Day 8? I put in a description, photo and contact form. I think I’ll try to add yet another page today :-)
The Zero to Hero is doing its work great, my blog has already transformed beyond recognition in the last 20 days. Hopefully for the better ;-)
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@maraeastern, no worries, we’ve got plenty of overachievers :)
If you already have several pages, don’t add one today just for the sake of adding it — make sure it helps your blog in some way.
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Whatever you do, know it’s best not to add a Page just to play around and then delete it because that will create 404 page not found error message if the Pages is indexed by search engines.
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Oh thanks, that’s a relief! I was thinking of adding something like a navigation/contents page – I have a regular schedule of posting certain types of content on certain days of the week, so maybe this would be a helpful extension of the About page.
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I’ve been meaning to do this: I just added a second “About” page. Now there is an “About the Blog” and an “About Trent”. There is a drop down between the 2. I may create an index later – it was something I was thinking of…
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I was pleased to see today’s task was creating a new page as I’ve just spent a couple of days putting a new one together. Now I’ve polished and published it. As one of the original purposes of my blog was to link up with my Etsy shop, I decided I’d add a page showing “What’s in the shop”. I also added a new image widget in the sidebar to highlight and link to the new page.
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Finally I get to put up my awards page. But which page should I get rid of? Probably the ‘Politics’ one! That’s right my blog was going to initially be a politics blog…until I realized I knew about as much about politics as an Irish politician. Not much. Ha, my final zing to politics, you winessed it here first folks!
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Now there is an “About the Blog” and an “About Trent”. There is a drop down between the 2.
I actually like that idea. It wouldn’t work for everyone as not everyone would have different things to say for each. But for those who want to say “this is me” and “this is the blog”, it’s a pretty good plan.
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Rearranged my navigation sidebar. Added a page. Changed hierarchy.
@trendpmcd
Good idea. As staff-ozmodiar described. Will implement that in the long run. -
I cleaned up my side bar, took off some widgets and added one new one.
Also renamed two of my pages and added a new theme last week.
The jury is still out on adding a new page for the awards I received. Just not to sure about that yet. I’m not one to brag…LOL -
Hi guys! Yes, its become clear to me that I need a page–an index or something at leaast! LOL
But I actually have another question I really need some Help on–I just published a post on James Steptoe Langhorne as part of another challenge. Well, I had beens tudying how to put in links after several of our challenges, including yesterdays–so, Ithought I was ready . I put about five links in this post, and NOT ONEof them works! Anyone here have a wuick sumary of what I should do—if I can’t fix them fast, I’ll just have to take them out ! Helen
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@maraeastern
re: broken links
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/zero-to-hero-day-twenty-1?replies=14#post-1609928
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@helenholshouser
This is the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/This is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>
This is the visual result – it’s not actually linked here in the forum.
Highlighted anchor text here1. Enter the relevant descriptive anchor text you want to link to first. Note that “here” is not a good choice.
2. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. (If you don’t highlight the anchor text the chain icon will remain grayed out and not be useable.)
3. Next click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link in the popup box.More here for links in posts, pages, text widgets, etc. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/05/20/creating-html-hyperlinks-links-in-wordpress/
Email links
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Thank you time-thief! you are a life saver–be back to tell you if I got it to work! Helen
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YES! I did it! Time thief–you deserve a “Helpfulness awaard! I cannot believ that I did it! I had been working on them for an hour! and this is not the first attempt and failure! I’m going to cut and paste and copy your instructions and put them with my copied pages from the support pages! You did something right–I got it! Thank you so much! –I felt like such an idiot! helen
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@helenholshouser
Everything I posted above is correct. If you fail to produce live links then you need to go over the instructions again step by step. michelleweber and I will help whenever you need help but you guys in the zero to hero challenge need to learn basics and creating links is very basic.
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