Help with Wordpress

[Remote Resources]

I have a customisable Wordpress theme for my website which features a jquery slider on the homepage. As far as I can tell, this is fed from the blog page using the category 'Homepage Slider'. So far so good.

The problem is that I want to use the slider as a part of the homepage rather than a show of blog posts. To get round this, I created a new page called 'Homepage Slider' where I could create the 'posts' that I want to feature on the homepage without getting in the way of my blog. I realised this was daft as I can't do individual posts nor categorise them (I think).

My question is, if I create the blog on a subdomain (blog.mysite.co.uk) and use the existing blog to feed the slider (missing from the navigation so not visible ot the public), will this impact on my rankings in the search engines? I don't want to create SEO problems then have to go back and re-do the whole thing!

Thanks for any advice

 

[francsutherland]

Hi, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you. But, i've just done a similar thing and would like to find out too! If I find anything on the net, I'll post it.

 

[Remote Resources]

Sorry for shameless bump.
Anyone any idea on this? It seems simple compared to some questions on the forum.
Even if it's to recommend a way to feed the Jquery slider from another, more hidden source than the blog.

 

[Blue Steel]

Not a wp expert and i'm sure better answer will be along soon but can you not simply create a new category just for the slider posts?

What's the theme called, might help

 

[Multi-store]

Idiot question here,

Just downloaded wordpress, my site is currently ran by an ecommerce provider - which is scrapping because they are pretty useless

I've unzipped the download, but where and how do i upload?

 

[Faevilangel]

Idiot question here,

Just downloaded wordpress, my site is currently ran by an ecommerce provider - which is scrapping because they are pretty useless

I've unzipped the download, but where and how do i upload?

Either FTP all the files into your server space or use your server control panel (plesk / cpanel) to upload the zip file and then use their utlilty to unzip.

 

[fisicx]

Sorry for shameless bump.
Anyone any idea on this? It seems simple compared to some questions on the forum.
Even if it's to recommend a way to feed the Jquery slider from another, more hidden source than the blog.

Most slider plugins have a shortcode you can insert into the blog post content. Whats the name of the theme?

 

[123Simples]

I've done wordpress installations not only for ourselves but also for customers. Install procedures are fairly straight forward (well they are on our hosting) and should be relatively simple - having said that it depends how often you do install the package I suppose.

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which is the basic way of doing what Wordpress says but in a short version

 

[TotallySport]

I don't know how but there is twoquestions going on here which makes it a little difficult, ontop of which I know nothing about wordpress, but the link to the wordpress site, which show instalation info is below:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

 

[Remote Resources]

Haha bit of cross posting here with someone else's topic.

The theme is Karma by True Themes.

The slider posts have their own category named 'Homepage Slider'. But I don't want these posts to actually show up in my blog for readers to read, if that makes sense. I'd prefer to have do the slider posts through the blog but the posts not be visible to the public except through the homepage slider but if I make them private, they won't show up anywhere.

Thanks for helping me. WP is not (YET) my strong point - still learning as I go :redface: I can usually work these things out eventually but can't find a solution at the moment, hence the query about the sub domain blog.

 

[CabinLIving]

you have to create a database on your cpanel to install wordpress easier said than done if you're a nove but there we are. Usually as with most things such as php mail form packages or e-commerce packages you then run an install.php

Personally I think wordpress is a bit like marmite and I'm in the hate it category

 

[WPsites]

The slider posts have their own category named 'Homepage Slider'. But I don't want these posts to actually show up in my blog for readers to read, if that makes sense. I'd prefer to have do the slider posts through the blog but the posts not be visible to the public except through the homepage slider but if I make them private, they won't show up anywhere.

Definitely do not create another WordPress install for this!

I have never used your theme so not 100% sure how you add items to your slider. If you just add post or page ID's for each of items you want to display in the slider then one thing you could do is install a WordPress plugin called spots.

Spots will set you up a new content type called a spot. So rather than using a post for each of your slides you could use spots. Spots are meant for content that doesn't fit as a post, isn't a page... it's just a spot.

So say for instance a telephone number in the footer of your site: rather than that content being hard coded in your theme where only a designer/dev could modify it, instead you add that content as a spot. So you manage it with a WYSIWYG interface like you would a post or page. Spots do not automatically display in navigation or on your web pages. You add spots either into the theme file directly using some code something like <?php icit_sposts('name'); ?> or you can insert a spot into a sidebar or other widget area just like any other widget or you can even insert a spot into the middle of a post or page by inserting a shortcode into the editor.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spots/

 

[fisicx]

The slider posts have their own category named 'Homepage Slider'. But I don't want these posts to actually show up in my blog for readers to read, if that makes sense. I'd prefer to have do the slider posts through the blog but the posts not be visible to the public except through the homepage slider but if I make them private, they won't show up anywhere.

Not quite sure what you mean but a solution would be to disable the homepage slider and install one of the many WP plugins. This way you can select which post appear in the slider. This is the one I'm using at the moment: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thethe-image-slider/

 

[ITsoldUK]

2 solutions here as I have used this theme (and luuuuuuuuuuuuv it)

1. For the slider, inside where you add the slider image, you can stipulate which page the slider links to so you can in theory, have it pointing anywhere.

2. Pop you question onto True Themes profile page where you bought it from. They are super quick on answering so you would get a response from them today.

HTH

Regards
Daren

 

[ITsoldUK]

I have gone through and found very informative. Thanks!

Which particular bit??

 

[Remote Resources]

Thanks everyone. Some good ideas there.
ITSold - glad you like the theme, I love it too - wish I was more creative to get the most out of it as it is soooo versatile!
I will post on the Truethemes forum - your answer was kind of what I was looking for so I just need to know how to do it properly.
Thanks again all

 

[Remote Resources]

Definitely do not create another WordPress install for this!

I have never used your theme so not 100% sure how you add items to your slider. If you just add post or page ID's for each of items you want to display in the slider then one thing you could do is install a WordPress plugin called spots.

Spots will set you up a new content type called a spot. So rather than using a post for each of your slides you could use spots. Spots are meant for content that doesn't fit as a post, isn't a page... it's just a spot.

So say for instance a telephone number in the footer of your site: rather than that content being hard coded in your theme where only a designer/dev could modify it, instead you add that content as a spot. So you manage it with a WYSIWYG interface like you would a post or page. Spots do not automatically display in navigation or on your web pages. You add spots either into the theme file directly using some code something like <?php icit_sposts('name'); ?> or you can insert a spot into a sidebar or other widget area just like any other widget or you can even insert a spot into the middle of a post or page by inserting a shortcode into the editor.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spots/

I have never heard of this but sounds like it could be a way round what I am trying to do. Will have ot have a look and see if I can get it to work for me. Thank you