stefano
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Hi guys,
first of all, sorry if my english will be not good, i am italian
So, this is my first blog, and my first experience whit Artisteer. I have downloaded the trial version of this software, just to understand if it is possible to create what i have in my mind.
Ok, lets explaine.....
My blog has 2 main sections and in the first page(index, or home) i want to display only 2 links to get the differents sections.
For each section i need differents categories and differents headers images.
I don't know if i explained well ...but i have found on internet a perfect blog like i would like to do.
the link... http://blogsolid.com/
It is possible to do this?
Thank you very much for the help
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stefano
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Nobody knows?
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Bob
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After you create your Artisteer theme or template you can create additional page templates to specifically show what you want but this is not something Artisteer will do for you. You can create a page template that you use as your home page and in Word Press under settings > reading you can select the page you created using your fancy page template. Artisteer only makes the basic theme with a basic page template.
-Bob
gdscomp.com
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Garry
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You should insert your two links on your index.php or header.php and create another template by adding following code at top of your page.php:
<?php
/*
Template Name: new template
*/
?>
Now you can assign this template to any page through your wordpress admin
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stefano
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Thankyou for the answers!
I'll try and i'll see if it will be good
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stefano
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Quote Bob:
After you create your Artisteer theme or template you can create additional page templates to specifically show what you want but this is not something Artisteer will do for you. You can create a page template that you use as your home page and in Word Press under settings > reading you can select the page you created using your fancy page template. Artisteer only makes the basic theme with a basic page template.
-Bob
gdscomp.com
Bob, the homepage that i need can be a Html file because there are just 2 images whit 2 links?
But wordpress doesn't recognize html file, how i can transform it?
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stefano
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Quote Garry:
You should insert your two links on your index.php or header.php and create another template by adding following code at top of your page.php:
<?php
/*
Template Name: new template
*/
?>
Now you can assign this template to any page through your wordpress admin
Garry, for this 2 main links i have to create 2 differents blog? Because i dont understand where to link them....
You mean in index.php of the Artisteer theme?
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Bob
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The sample blog you noted looks like they have created a page with a special page template that just has the 3 graphic links on it. Each link takes you to a different catagory of the blog. They actually look like sub catagories of the catagory "ideas".
To make a page template you just copy and rename page.php and upload it to the theme folder. Rememeber to add the template code noted above at the top of your new template so WP knows its a page template. Then you would have to strip out what you don't want on the page like the post and title and comments and then code in your graphics as links. Name and publish a page using this template and then in WordPress under settings > reading choose to have a static page as your home page and pick the new page you made that uses your new template. Create another blank page and publish it with a name like blog or news and in WP choose that as your posts page so you still have a blog.
You don't need two blogs just catagories to post your articles under.
Artisteer gives you the design and the template. What you are looking for is taking that a step farther. I am pretty sure that is what they are doing on the blog you mentioned above.
- Bob
gdscomp.com
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Bob
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......OR.......
The home page is a static html page (index.html) and the links take you to catagory pages of the blog located in
http://blogsolid.com/ideas/
That says the blog is in a subdirectory not the root. The home page is just a landing page for that domain. Notice the link "enter" at the top right. It takes you to the blog. Or a page set as the blog named "ideas".
Hope this helps you.
- Bob
Either way would acheive the same thing.
- Bob
Either way the graphic links on that home page take you to 3 different catagory listings of the blog.
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Garry
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The http://blogsolid.com/ can be achieved in just two steps
1- create a theme like the example website
2- create tree categories, make them hyperlinks as following:
<?php query_posts('cat=3'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
3- Write desired number of posts and associate them with desired categories from your wordpress admin.
4- Create a new template just by copying code from your page.php and inserting upper code on top of it, you can name it according to your choice like new_template.php. Upload it in your theme files on your web server, now when you write a new page or post this page will be available to choose (on right of your wordpress admin). In your case there will be three templates.
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stefano
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Oh my god! thank you for the help guys....really!
So, now i have made the front page where to choose the sections.
First i created the html file and added on top of page code this:
<?php /* Template Name: home
*/ ?>
and saved it as home.php
Then i choosed from WP option to show for first page this home.php....but as you can see from the link php dont recognize the html code
www.naturalspot.net
Now i want just to make this first page and later i'll think about blog and categories, or i'll be crazy.
ps: i dont know php code and just a little html code
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stefano
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Hi guys!
i have changed something:
-in my ftp i have moved all files of WP into a new folder called wordpress
-i have put a normal index.html with the 2 links and now the first page is working.
There are not still the links, because i dont know where to link them:
section 1------->index.php of what? main wordpress folder or current theme folders?
section 2------->index.php of what? main wordpress folder or current theme folders?
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Bob
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OKay now if you link to www.yourdomain.com/wordpress you will link to your blog. On your blog, when you have articles assigned to categories you can list that catagory by inserting your category widget in the sidebar. Take note of that link and then that is your link to use on your domains home page that you can also link to a listing of posts just in that category. Sounds like your almost there.
- Bob
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