Thanks

I have a wordpress website designed from a template.

As the only themes we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs are found here > Appearance > Themes, it sounds to me like you are posting to the wrong support forum, and actually may need to post to http://wordpress.ORG/support/
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org:The Differences

http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ . You will need to describe exactly what it does, and give them access to the code etc.

(My widget has Javascript in it, so I know they can't just post it into an HTML block on the page... tried that already :-)

thanks,
Eric

I am a Professor interested in creating a blog in my topic area (marketing and business). I want a custom theme so it will look (and do) exactly what I want. Can someone tell me what I might expect to pay a programmer for a custom theme? What is the best way to find a good WordPress developer?

Thanks.

David (Toronto)

Cheers for the help.

Andrew

Really dumb question, but how do I change the number of posts to a page. I assume in general settings? On a train so can't look! Thanks, glad you like the site

Custom web design is a lovely add-on, but it is SUCH a luxury item that it does not come cheap. The competent, talented people I know charge $65 an hour MINIMUM when they work for charities, and double that when they work for other companies. One of my friends charges $5000 per page.

You really don't need a web developer unless you're going to be doing something huge, with an audience in the tens of thousands daily or better.

Maybe check other well known food websites and see where they host. Maybe email them and ask about where they host and how much they pay.

For a food blog, pictures will be key. Which means bandwidth and paying for it. Unless you host the pictures elsewhere like Photobucket and pay their premium yearly fee where bandwidth is unlimited I believe.

If you just want to customize the template, then you can pay for the CSS upgrade. But first preview it before purchasing it.

Your site looks real nice because the pictures all add color and life to the blog. My only suggestion would be to limit the number of posts you have per page. Too many pictures and too many posts on the main page will suck the bandwidth and will be difficult for people with dial-up to load your page and they might leave. Maybe 5 posts per page.

Basically I've been reading up on a few webpages about the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com and it looks that if I want to heavily customise my site then I might have to move to WordPress.org? I've a few ideas for what I want the site to look like, and I don't think it can be acheived on a WordPress.com blog (although I could be wrong).

Before I make any drastic decisions just wanted to know if anyone on this forum knows any good, cheap developers for a food blogging site? Roughly how much are we talking an hour for example?

If not, has anyone got some tips on how to improve my site without moving?

http://onceuponathyme.wordpress.com/

Thanks
Andrew

I need this thinks

1- Create category
2- Relationship category with links
3- Read link for a category.

How to ?

Good luck,
-drmike

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But wordpress insists on linking all the links back to your real, online blog. How to tell it to use the URL of your local blog locally, and your remote blog remotely?

Here's a hack to make wordpress pick up the URL for itself, every time!

open up wp-includes/functions.php and find the part which says:

/* Options functions */

function get_settings($setting) {
global $wpdb;

$value = wp_cache_get($setting, 'options');

if ( false === $value ) {
if ( defined('WP_INSTALLING') )
$wpdb->hide_errors();

and change it to say this:

<br /> /* Options functions */

function get_settings($setting) {
global $wpdb;

$value = wp_cache_get($setting, 'options');

/* Ben XO's siteurl hack */
if( 'siteurl' == $setting or 'home' == $setting ) {

$_REAL_SCRIPT_DIR = realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']));
$_REAL_BASE_DIR = realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/..');
$_MY_PATH_PART = substr( $_REAL_SCRIPT_DIR, strlen($_REAL_BASE_DIR));

$INSTALLATION_PATH = $_MY_PATH_PART
? substr( dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), 0, -strlen($_MY_PATH_PART) )
: dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])
;

$value = 'http' . ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] ? 's' : '') . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $INSTALLATION_PATH;
}
/* end Ben XO's siteurl hack */

if ( false === $value ) {
if ( defined('WP_INSTALLING') )
$wpdb->hide_errors();

it uses a trick i posted on the PHP comments page, here:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server

happy developing!