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Can you put a video on how you put youtubes in the wordpress please. l tried to submit a comment in my blog but nothing that allows to embed a youtube clip. Why is this not in wordpress.

Sure, I’ll put that on my list. There are several ways to do it, but one of the easiest ways is to just copy the Youtube embed code and then in your post, switch to the html mode, past in the code and publish. See this thread on wordpress.org for more info:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/231726

Here is the result:

I would love to have a tutorial on how to get the social bookmarks icons like you have on this site.

Easy. Just go to your admin and click on Plugins, then Add New. At the top, click on Popular and then look for the Sociable plugin. Install it…with 2.7 you should be able to do it from right there. Activate it. Then go to Settings and you should see a link for sociable where you can configure it.

Thanks so much Figaro. I had tried other plugins for social bookmarks but none worked. This one that you recommended was a dream to install and so versatile – I love it! I’m really glad I found your site, it’s helping me tremendously with my new blog.

You’re welcome Terri…glad you find the site helpful.

Do you have video’s for any of these questions? I hope so.

1) How to do is create a new page that has a tab at the top of the page. There is the ‘Home’ tab, ‘About’ tab, ‘Privacy Policy’ ect., how do I get a new tab?

2)How do I get a post to be listed under the parent page that I select. I have it listed under the parent page that I want, but it does not show up on that page, the new post is listed on the bottom of the site under recent post.

I asked this question in wp forum but the information I received back is confusing.
. Most times navigation bars on themes are presented via the template tag, wp_list_pages(). Just create a new Page and it gets included in the list of pages.

2. Posts are NOT children of Pages. If you want posts included in Pages the you will need to create a Page that uses a Page Templates|Page Template and that template will need to include the template tag, query_posts() in a loop to display those posts.

3. The template tag, wp_list_pages(), can be configured to use sort_column=menu_order parameter.

Resources:
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Template Hierarchy

3) How do I change the order of the tabs at the top of the page? I’ve gone in and done a page order in the manage page section. But the changes I’ve made do not show up on the website. I see the changes when I’m in the dashboard in the manage page section.

The site is http://www.puppydogsplus.com

Thank you for your help in this.
charmitch1

Try the “My Page Order” plugin to order your pages…I use it and it works well. The comment about posts not being children of pages is correct…posts and pages are different things. I will make a video in the next few days showing how to add pages and other links to the horizontal nav bar.

Can you post a video about page templates? I’m finding them very confusing, even with the resources listed at wordpress.org about them. I’m trying to make some changes, such as a different header and different colors on the pages (depending on the page).

Thank you for your time trying to help educate us on the ins and outs of WP . I love the site…it’s a great help.

@Michelle

I’ll put that on my list. Thanks.

Hello figaro. Thank you for your help in the WordPress forums. I asked a question about your services there but you wanted me to contact you for that sort of thing through your website, however, I cannot find anywhere to email you.

I’d like to ask you a question through email about creating videos for me if that’s ok.

Thank you,
John

John,

I’ll emailed you at the address you entered for this post. My Email here is under the Premium WordPress Support link (page) 234figaro432@gmail.com

Thank you figaro, email sent. You’ve got some great videos here. Very nice site.

Can u plz post a video on how to run own server through XAMPP..

@Arvind: That’s a little beyone the scope of this blog. You should post to the forums at Apache Friends: http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewforum.php?f=34

@figaroOK thanks. I got them posted and sorted out now. Seems so simple now that i feel like i was dumb .

Hey, great site… My 2 video requests are as follows. First a video showing how to import SQL from a backup with the file size exceeds the file size that phpmyadmin can handle. Second video, would show us how to make the autoupgrade for the plugins work when you click on autoupgrade next to a plugin that is out of date.

Thanks much!
Clint

Yep, that seems to be a popular request. I’m out of town this weekend, but when I get back I’ll make the video about uploading large sql files and post it.

Hi Figaro, found your site and watched the header/photoshop tutorial – good value! I’m a newbie to WordPress and still unfamiliar with some of the terminology and getting my head around plugins, widgets and elements. I setup the iNove theme because it boasted a “forms element”. Can you, in broad terms, tell me how I go about creating and displaying a form in my sidebar? Thanks

I don’t know about a form, but you can add html to the sidebar by going to the theme options page. A good form to add is the contact 7 plugin.

@figaro
Hi thanks for that. Now using Contact 7 plugin which is very good. Won’t “Send” under IE6 tho – works fine in Firefox. Looking into it.

Hi Figaro, I’m using the iNove Theme which i find is great because i need somewhere to embed all my adobe.swf files as a hybrid with html and custom YouTube players etc. You can see here that the ‘Best YouTubes’ menu drops down under any embedded *.swf file. Is there any way to change the focus of the menu so as to be always on top and is it a hard thing to do? http://www.forpropertyinvestors.com

Thanks for the tut videos and the site i’m finding it very helpful and learning lots.

@Daniel
If you click on Best YouTubes and select one of the pages you will see the menu actually drops down in-front of those videos. Maybe it has to do with the video on your frontpage being in a quote field??

Is there a way to have dropdowns coming off of the home directory? I’d like to have my ‘about’ and some other stuff coming off of ‘home’ but it’s handled differently than other pages.. thx

Use this theme, iNove, and it does that automatically when you add pages to a parent page.

figaro :
@Daniel
I’m not exactly sure why I’m getting mixed results? Some without the quotes goes under some don’t. Only logical fix is to put a few paragraphs of text up top but that’s the long way…

Hi Figaro,
Not sure how else to contact you as I’ve misplaced your email, but you helped me fix my login hack a month or two ago. Here is a thread on it: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/227867 Well, it’s happened again!

Are you available to help again?

Joe

Great ! I will add this to my bookmarks. TY

@Joe
See my email to you.

If you ever feel like making a video on how to create a static post, I know a lot of people would appreciate it. That, in fact is what brought me here…I was trying to follow someone’s directions and changed the url in my settings and lost access to my site – your video saved me, but I still don’t know how to do that static post

Hello Figaro,

I have a problem and try to finde answer to my question at google, but without results… so I would like to ask you could U help me? I would like to add articles by RSS to my blog from other portals at place where are my own news. I need structure “RSS articles” and under it “my own articles”. I`ll try to implet it by script:

Subscribe
Stay updated with via RSS (Syndicate).

<a href=”" title=”Full content RSS feed”>Content RSS – Straight to your reader
<a href=”" title=”Full comments RSS feed”>Comments RSS – Add to the discussion

(and next code)

What`s wrong I do? / I forget to say that I have one subscribe RSS from one portal but at second column and I would like to add other sub RSS from other portals at first column (where are my news).

Thank U very much for help.

c.

@canah
Canah…I’m not that good with rss issues. I can get basic feeds to work, but that’s about it. You may want to post to the WP.org forums and see if someone can help there.

Necesito saber si puedo cambiar la cabecera de mi blog en distintas páginas, es decir, si cada página o categoría puede tener una cabecera distinta, tengo instalado el tema “inove”

Gracias soy nuevo en los blogs y voy dandome cabezazos con todo.

@dyctador
Yes, you can have different headers on different pages. You would just need to create page templates and use the template for the pages that you want the different headers on. See Stepping into templates on the wp.org site here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates

I’ll add this to my list of videos to create in the future.

Great videos, wish I had seen them before I did my WordPress installations:). They will also give me confidence when maintaining my WordPress databases. I would be interested in a video showing how to integrate bbpress and WordPress if it is within the scope of this blog.

Good afternoon sir. I’m currently in the process of changing the domain name for my WP blog, however I find the instructions given by WP complicated and I’ve tried other ways but still cannot change the domain name. I have grabbed myself a domain name (from co.cc) but the only thing that it seems to do is to hide (or redirect) the original blog name. I would appreciate it very much if you can help me with this.

Thank you~

@marie: You will need to let your host know what domain name you plan to use. Then if you have your domain name with another provider (not your host) you will need to set it to resolve to your hosts name servers. This isn’t really a WP issue, but something you will need to work with your host to get solved.

Hi there

I have modified the inove header by adding my logo and url however, I cant seem to get rid of the pre existing link with writing on it.
I want people to be able to click on my logo in the header which will direct them back to the index page.
I tried going to ‘header.php’ like in the Kubrick however, the link is not in there.
Any assistance would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Darron

Oh, and now it seems I have done something wrong. I have modified inove as mentioned above but when I log out, a page appears with several lines on it saying something like:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/inove2/functions.php:903) in /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-login.php on line 255

it repeats this changing the very last line with various numbers on it. I changed the original text to ‘mysite’ for security purposes (just in case).
I just wanted to take the original text out of the header and add my logo as rebuilding my website.
Any assistance is much appreciated.

PS – thanks for the awesome, ease of use tutorials Figaro!

@Darron: The header.php file in iNove is in a directory called “Templates”.

@Darron: Change themes and see if this clears the problem…if not, then the problem isn’t in the theme.

THanks for your response Figaro. I will check the templates, however, I changed the theme back to a kubrick I previously worked with, and that one seems to be working.
Shall I try again from scratch with inove again, and work with a copy?

Thanks
Darron

Hi Figaro
I have the header working however, I cant get rid of the text in the middle of my logo. I have tried everything I know using the Kubrick instructions. If I’ve lost ya, have a look here http://djd-training.com/blog/
I would like to have my logo clickable also.
Any help is always much appreciated
THanks in advance
Darron

OK, now my website isn’t even loading up. I cannot access my site, cpanel or blog. Any ideas of what has happened here?

Accessing Cpanel doesn’t have anything to do with WordPress…you will need to contact your host about that.

Yeah thought so. Thanks Figaro.

Hi there
It seems to be working now (touch wood). I have the header working however, I cant get rid of the text in the middle of my logo. I have tried everything I know using the Kubrick instructions. If I’ve lost ya, have a look here http://djd-training.com/blog/
I would like to have my logo clickable also.
Any help is always much appreciated
THanks in advance

@Darron: Zip your theme and send me a download link. I’ll make the changes and send it back. I’m out of town tomorrow so it may be a day or two before I can get to it.

I need to know how to transfer all my old posts (wordpress 2.5 I BELIEVE) to my new wordpress 2.7 web server. Since so much stuff changed with 2.7, I was not able to upload the old 2.5 database and then upgrade…

what I have:
my old 2.5 database uploaded to phpmyadmin..
my new 2.7 database uploaded..

what I need:
transfer ONLY the old posts… to the new 2.7 database..

@andrew: That is very difficult to do directly in the db since you not only have “the posts” table to transfer, but posts are tied to other things, like categories, tags, etc., that are in other tables. Also, you will likely have duplicate post id’s when you try to combine two db’s. One way to accomplish this would be to set up a separate blog with your old db, upgrade it, then export the posts using the export feature in WP. Then import those posts into your new WP site using the Import feature.