Various noob questions...

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Thank you for the quick reply!!


2. After removing those 2 files the error messages went away.

But how do I re-add the sidebar component?

-- Not sure what your asking, but to get a component into a template you do, <?php get_component('sidebar'); ?> or maybe what your asking, just download another copy and re add those files.


3. Well, I have been using an e-commerce CMS and they stress this issue a lot. I guess since this is not an e-commerce site, hacking should not be too much of a big deal anyway.

>>If the admin site is secure

I am not sure I understand this. You mean, if the hosting company secures their server?

-- What other CMS where you using? And no, what he meannt was, as there is a log in page, and as long as you password cannot be easily guessed, a hacker still will not be able to access your page.


4. How about I create a 2nd installation under example.com/cn, and then cross-link the two sites to each other? Would that work?

-- With this, if it were me, i would personally get a host, and create subdomains off of that host. Say example.com then the subdomains would be for each language. fr.example.com, sp.example.com. Then from the original (example.com) website link to the others. say at the bottom you have Translations: French - Spanish - and so on. Link to the subdomains. French, fr.example.com, spanish, sp.example.com, ch.example.com for chinese or something. Hope you understand.

5. All righty. I created an override folder and will start making theme changes in there.

-- Yeah just make a copy of the original template somewhere. change the name so it doesn't get overwritten then copy the original back in.

6. At this point I don't understand the codex stuff. I guess I will first resolve the simple challenges and ask about the codex later.

-- Wow dude, don't think it's that hard. It is really actually very easy. Go over to my site, http://graphixant.com and check out my downloads. Download one of the themes and open up template.php in notepad or dreamweaver if you got it. No, if you know html, which you should because its sooo easy . Now, look at the title, it's really simple stuff and so little work and code. <title> tags you can put something like, <?php get_site_name(); ?> | <?php get_component('tagline'); ?> this will get the site name, (this is from what you set it to from installation, this is a function that picks the name from your site for you. Then gets the component tagline, (your slogan or w.e you put there).

7. What should I google for to find keyboard combos?

-- The thing i do to erase this, is, press enter, then togglee editor and get rid of the <p> and ending </p> tags. These are paragraph tags, removing them will remove the paragraph. Now above that line add, <br /> this is a line break. Not sure is SHIFT+ENTER will work. Try it

Thanks!


PS: Also what exactly is a slug???

Code:

get_page_slug()
<?php get_page_slug(); ?>
Echos the page's slug. No options. Example would be the word 'download' in the URL http://get-simple.info/download.

Anybody can enlighten me on this?

EDIT: Yes, to number 7. If you press SHIFT+ENTER instead of just enter, it does NOT add the paragraph and goes straight underneath. Enjoy!