A WordPress Virgin
Posted on: 5 November 2007
- In: thoughts
- 34 Comments
Being the computer incompetent that I am, I am struggling with this, but I shall prevail with the help of Brian… won’t I Brian… hmmmm!!!!!
34 Responses to "A WordPress Virgin"
2 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 19:37
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU DID IT ANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always knew you could. 🙂
3 | ann
5 November 2007 at 19:40
oh my goodness… it’s happening. now I need
you to help me categorise, please, pretty please.
the comments aren’t there yet, but no doubt
they’ll make an appearance soon… hmmm!!!!
5 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 19:49
Never mind, all the comments are there.
Good news, bad news.
In order to categorize all the old posts you have to re publish each and every one of the 180 posts. If you think it’s worth doing, then you can start in the ‘Manage’ screen and pick a month a post to start with.
You clink ‘Edit’ on a post, then at the top right you have ‘Add Category’.
You also have at the bottom of each post, ‘Tags’.
Now, they way this works is you can use one Category, such as Travel and then sub tags such as London, Israel etc.
6 | ann
5 November 2007 at 19:49
yes… so far so good; the comments are there,
but I think I’ll delete a lot of those posts.
I’m importing the poetry now. I won’t bother
importing the vincent blogs… if I feel like doing
a vincent post, I just will.
once these are done, should I delete my old
blogs?
7 | ann
5 November 2007 at 19:52
guess that will be quite laborious, but worth it.
Brian, do you know why my profile and avatar
aren’t on display?
8 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 19:58
Did you upload an avatar picture into your profile page?
Since I can’t click back on your name, you may have it blocked in your ‘Option” section under privacy or reading.
9 | ann
5 November 2007 at 19:59
Funny… spooky even… I was just surfing the
dashboard to see why my name was blocked;
be back at ya… thank you so much for your help
10 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 20:02
Your profile shows up when you click on ‘Ann’ in the posted by of your post.
As for a real profile in the sidebar, you need a text widget. I can help you with that, but it’s easier over the phone.
Btw, this template is the same as Rose’s and you see what she has done to hers. She did a post today which you might find interesting.
11 | ann
5 November 2007 at 20:05
thanks Brian… let me know when’s a good time
to call and you can talk me through it, but please
be patient with me
12 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 20:27
Dang girl, all the links came through as well. Cool.
A couple of quirks with links. They are also alphabetical, but you can tweak them by putting an ‘A’ in front of ones you want near the top. Or any kind of character first as well, ie @ % & will work too.
Also, you can categorize each and every link as well into separate listings. More widget stuff.
I noticed that on the old posts, none of the comments came through with blog URL’s. Not sure why, but it’s not that major.
It’s possible on your avatar that you have to log off and then back on, not sure why it didn’t show up when you left a comment on my blog.
13 | ann
5 November 2007 at 20:30
okay, I’ll log off and try the avatar thing again.
I also noticed the url’s weren’t there, but when
someone posts for the first time on wordpress
and they leave their url then, maybe it will appear.
14 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 20:45
I see you’re messing with the widgets now.
GO ANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 20:48
Put the widget that says links into the setup. Also, you can arrange them anyway you want in whatever order you want.
18 | ann
5 November 2007 at 20:49
okay… I thought links was something else;
I have moved them around; I learnt that
from blogger… thanks sweetie
19 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:02
I checked on the FAQ forum and the first time you load an avatar it can take hours before it shows up.
20 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:04
This link says you can leave a test comment to see if your avatar shows up.
22 | ann
5 November 2007 at 21:05
oh it used to be slow on blogger too;
sometimes the next day, although
with blogger that has improved.
now I want to know how to add pics
and change the wording on the sidebar
next step is categorizing… this should
keep me out of mischief
23 | ann
5 November 2007 at 21:10
Brian, it worked there, so I’ll try again here
thanks for the link
25 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:12
The wording on the sidebar is easy. If you open up each widget, click on the three horizontal lines, you open a pop up box. At the top of each box is a space to type in a title.
With links however, you have to go into ‘Blogroll’ in the Dashboard and then click categories. These categories are for the blogroll only. You can make as many names as you want, but more than one, you have to organize each link separately.
26 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:14
Cute avatar. Just wait, it will be there in the morning.
Categories are fun.
Things like Family and then use tags within that category, such as daughter, son #1, son #2, grandchildren. 😉
28 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:22
Yes you can. It’s called a text widget and if you scroll all the way down on the widget page, you can choose up to 10 text widgets. Just like in blogger though, you have to upload to WP a picture in order to have a thumbnail URL to insert in said text widget. Works for badges as well.
29 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:28
Speaking of pictures Ann. Click ‘Manage’ and then ‘Uploads’ to see how many pictures, if any were transfered. If they were, then click on the picture, then click ‘Links’ and that shows you the URL to a thumbnail. Copy and paste into a text widget and you’re in business!!!!
31 | ann
5 November 2007 at 21:33
no, only two of my pics were uploaded,, but I’ll experiment with them
32 | Brian
5 November 2007 at 21:43
I’m going to be logging off soon and going home. This has been a wonderful time today with you. Thanks for sharing this with me.
Love you
33 | ann
5 November 2007 at 21:43
oh my goodness, I couldn’t have done this
without you
::smothering you with kisses::
thank you thank you thank you
at home with ann 
5 November 2007 at 19:07
Yes you will Ann. 🙂