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thesacredpath on "Advancing themes!"

thesacredpath — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:45:18 +0000

You are welcome.

cellame on "Advancing themes!"

cellame — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:22:55 +0000

Actually I found the theme, which does it exactly what I need. It is called Coraline, and is transparent! Thank you all for your suggestions.

cellame on "Advancing themes!"

cellame — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:17:33 +0000

can you tell me what I have to do?

I know where to write a command. But what should I write?

thesacredpath on "Advancing themes!"

thesacredpath — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:51:18 +0000

It can be done, but it would take CSS work.

cellame on "Advancing themes!"

cellame — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:39:46 +0000

Dear raincoaster,

1) I have a free blog! But planning to change it to .com
2) Well I can do a website using CSS but I haven't got an idea hot to make it transparent in between the posts.

Dear timethief,

My current theme is Connections by Patricia Müller
I have changed the background. I have a photo-collage and I was hoping that if I make the main column transparent in between the post then my background will not be just visible on the sides but under each post.

timethief on "Advancing themes!"

timethief — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:12:03 +0000

3) Which theme are you using?

raincoaster on "Advancing themes!"

raincoaster — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:41:40 +0000

1) Do you have the paid CSS upgrade?
2) How well do you know CSS?

cellame on "Advancing themes!"

cellame — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:41:51 +0000

Hello,

Does anyone know if is possible to make the background of the the theme transparent (in the empty space between posts), and just have the white background where I post?
Thanks

raincoaster on "post in advance"

raincoaster — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:15:38 +0000

One thing I have noticed is that if you post in advance, the posts will NOT display in tag pages or Most Recently Updated until you edit them. I just edited one that went up last night, and poof! There it is now.

dilettante on "post in advance"

dilettante — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:09:15 +0000

I have started to set the post stamps in advance when I have a burst of topics to write about. Each time they have worked as expected.

If you can document the particular circumstances of the post that did not work, then it may be better to send specifics to support.

AFAIK, there is no limit to the number of posts that you can publish in advance, but sometimes you can trip up by not remembering that the set time may not be your local time.

Depending on the frequency of your articles, I would set them all to some future date/time and monitor. If they work they work, if they don't, try to record accurately what you did so that support can reproduce the problem or track it down.

pmead on "post in advance"

pmead — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:16:52 +0000

Is it possible to post in advance? I've done it twice. Once it worked, once it didn't. I changed the time and date settings into the future, but then t only worked one time. Any reason why? I need to set up a few days of posts and know that they will come on.

liftingshadows on "¿How can I post a long text and show only an advance?"

liftingshadows — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:36:36 +0000

sound handy...

timethief on "¿How can I post a long text and show only an advance?"

timethief — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:51:21 +0000

/nod to raincoaster

Using the  tag to create a break in text with continuation on another page:
In the text rich editor icon 13 (page with dotted line across it)
In the standard editor [more] button
Hand coded

raincoaster on "¿How can I post a long text and show only an advance?"

raincoaster — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:26:32 +0000

Use the "More" feature. If you're using the visual editor, it's the icon that looks like a page with a dotted line across it. Put your cursor where you want the story to break and then click the button. Sorry, I don't know how to do that in code, but I'm sure you could find a way if you search the forum for "snippet" or "break".

quenodecaiga on "¿How can I post a long text and show only an advance?"

quenodecaiga — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:23:42 +0000

I want to publish a long story but I Don´t want it to be all at once. I would like to show only a little adcance...
Thank you!

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:33:15 +0000

TT, I did understand you. At least I think I did. What I don't understand is why you are pointing this out, as my cases ARE blog-structured but they aren't CATEGORIZED as specifically as you suggested.

Am I missing something?

Then I have some additional pages with articles, I don't really care about that going to search engines. That is not my content. Just reference material.

Of course, it's up to me what I do, but I want it to make sense within the set up format too.

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:14:10 +0000

@rain - thank you, thank you and thank you again for correctly articulating this for me. :)

raincoaster on "No advance to second page"

raincoaster — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:00:09 +0000

What time thief is saying is that a blog-structured post with tags will always outpull a page-structured post even with tags in any search engine.

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:46:22 +0000

But my cases, such as laminitis or navicular as you said, do have category tags, although maybe not ones that reflect the content so obviously.
I find the blogs with hundreds of categories to be overwhelming and not very useful. I guess there has to be a happy medium.

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:22:08 +0000

Re: But, that is a different issue than posting articles on pages vs. posting them as posts, isn't it?

Pages do not have category tags assigned to them - posts do.
bump to drmike

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:16:32 +0000

Hmmm. I was not aware of the commercial purposes restriction. Even if it is not for my benefit, but a place where someone can go to buy something? That's the same? The for sale ones are just "favors" for friends, and the links to commercial websites, that's a real grey area isn't it? How is it different, than for example, MidTown Lunch that has hundreds of links/locations of restaurants to BUY lunch? But I don't want to break any rules.

As to your comment about how would someone find something on particular topic, like navicular, I thought titling the post would do the trick. Every post has the name of the problem in it, pretty much. I suppose eventually if I have enough of each type of condition I could make that a category. Thank you, that gives me something to think about. But, that is a different issue than posting articles on pages vs. posting them as posts, isn't it?

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:40:10 +0000

@drmike
bump

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:51:07 +0000

@christine
Re: the PS - no I don't think so. I believe you will have to copy and paste all of the information from the comments.

Re: the other part of your post. Your blog is your own to do with as you wish. If it were mine I would post the articles in posts and not on pages. I would use blockquotes and clearly stated "by" lines, and I would assign the articles to specific topical categories for easy reader retrieval.

This is what you have:
#
Categories

* Case Studies
* Conditions & Treatment
* For Sale
* Recommendations
* Schedule
* Uncategorized

As an equestrian and horse owner what would happen if I looked for "navicular" or laminitis" in your categories list? Would I be forced to read through all the posts under Conditions and Treatments to finally locate what I was looking for?
I clicked on hoof boots more than once yesterday and I noted some images were linked to commercial sites selling hoof boots. I noticed other images with company logos. I also noticed that you had links that folks could use to get to sites that sell hoof boots.
And I also noticed your were listing horses for sale as a category and had such a post. This is an uncomfortable area for sure. WordPress.com blogs cannot be used for commercial purposes. So from here on I'm going to wish you well and leave you in our Moderator drmike's hands.
All my best :)

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:14:40 +0000

Hmmmm. Interesting that you would say that. I have 16 posts so far on my home page, 1 on Articles, with 3 subpages, one 'post' each, and 1 other (Studies) which will get subpages if I ever find any more studies. Oh yeah there's a Hoof Boots page too which I forgot about which was mainly created by reader contributions/comments.

The rationale I am using is that the "blog", the homepage entries, are content created by me. The "Pages" (articles and studies) are just copies of articles written by other people, and are like "reference" material.

Isn't this what you are describing? The articles are long so it may seem that I am dumping lots of stuff on pages but it's only 4 entries, to date. The length of the articles is exactly the reason i was looking to split it up into subpages.

The issue with search engines is interesting. I have specifically noticed that I am getting hits from searches that people are running that directs them to the CONTENT that is buried deep, deep in the article (and I wasn't even aware that content was there till that happened) of the pages but not the titles, so somehow the search engines are finding them. In particular the Hoof Boots page gets a lot of hits that way.

It seems to be working. Am I doing something wrong?

PS - the edit/copy/paste of comments, that's just how I redid my pages. If I do that with comments will the commenter's name, avatar, and so forth go with?

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:53:40 +0000

Yes indeed. No category tags mean no search engine rankings. You are basically shutting a door to having your content being readily located by readers.

raincoaster on "No advance to second page"

raincoaster — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:51:03 +0000

It will certainly not help your search engine rankings, that's for sure.

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:49:28 +0000

G'morning christine
You can manage, edit, move and delete comments *carefully* by going to -> Dashboard -> Manage -> Comments. Under each comment you will see " [ Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam | View Post ]"
There is no method of automatically moving comments. It's basically a copy and paste job :) going back and forth and using the comment boxes on the new sub-pages to enter the comments then editing them from the Dashboard/Manage/Comments area.
The difference between pages, subpages and posts is that posts have time and date stamps and more importantly they have category tags assigned to them (a method for reader retrieval, while subpages and pages don't. The method you are using of loading everything onto pages rather than posts is contrary to how a blog is normally set up. You may think it facilitates reader use now but IMO over the long term this may not prove to be true.
Best wishes :)

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:23:28 +0000

Thank you, it turns out to be a very easy thing though not obvious at first. I now have added page "children".
If i have comments on the original parent page (titled "Articles"), will I lose them if I try to copy/paste it onto a subpage (as I did with the three other entries that are now subpages)?

timethief on "No advance to second page"

timethief — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:35:07 +0000

Creating a sub page (Connections theme)
-> DASHBOARD -> WRITE -> PAGE
On your write page you will find past the editor box on your right hand side -> a row of blue buttons
discussion +
page status +
page password +
page parent + click the +plus sign and make your choice of parent page from the drop-down menu
Complete the sub-page as you would a page or post and "publish".
When you view your blog the sub-page title will be displayed in your sidebar under pages and specifically will be indented with > under the parent page you have chosen. :)
All contents of your sidebar are cached and therefore may take a few moments to appear after any change. If the change does not occur as expected clear your browser cache.

christinabarefoottrimmer on "No advance to second page"

christinabarefoottrimmer — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:36:19 +0000

Yes, the problem has mystseriously solved itself. This has happened before, problems just clearing up by themselves. I did wait a while before posting the question. Why do these things happen, anyway? I don't want to be come known as the blogger who cried wolf and then get no support.

So, what about sub-pages below pages, is something like that possible? Or another way to say it I guess would be individual titled posts on separate pages?

Thanks.