Hello,

First of all, it would be hard to overstate how wonderful I think this theme is. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will definitely make a donation.

My question is that i would like to have my greeting page, that is the page that initially greets my visitor, to be a static page, and have the posting page of the blog be a link in the menu bar of the home page.

This way my visitor is greeted with some of my imagery and an introduction, instead of lots of text, and then can click through to my "news" page where all of my bloggery is posted. Does that make sense? Is that something that I can easily engineer through the theme settings? I can't quite figure it out, I was hoping you my be able to provide some insight. Thanks again for all your wonderful work!

Tony

1) Create the "Greetings" page, with content.

2) Create a blank page for the new blog posts homepage named i.e. "News".

3) At Site Admin -> Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays, choose:

"Front page displays" -> "A static page"
"Front page" -> [Greetings page you created earlier]
"Post Page" -> [blank "News" page you created earlier]

4) At Atahualpa Theme Options -> Page Menu Bar, delete the "Home" from "Home link in Page Menu Bar" and change "Sorting order of Page Menu Bar" to "menu_order" in case you've changed that.

5) At Site Admin -> Pages, click on all pages and watch the menu tab "Attributes" on the right side. Change the value of "order" to move the pages around in the page menu bar. For instance, give the "Greetings" page the lowest value to put it on the left end of the page menu bar, and give the blank "News" page the highest value to put it on the right end of the page menu bar.

I'd recommend to give the pages values like 100, 200, 300 ... instead of 1, 2, 3 .... That way you can always sort a new page in between two older pages without having to change the "order" value of all pages all over again.

I will do that. Thank you so much!

I have my paisleygoddess.com site set as a static front page - I'm still working on it, but I have a question:

Because it is set as a static front page, I can't use some of the sidebar widgets. I would like to be able to show the blog posts (recent posts) in the front page side bar, but that option disappeared when I switched it. I'm using a RSS feed to be able to show them, but was wondering is there a better way?

I also LOVE, LOVE this theme, it was great to customize and work with! THANK you! My donation is on its way as well!

THANKS!
Ash

The sidebars shouldn't act any different on "page" pages. As for recent posts, can't you just use the "Recent Posts" widget? Or are you pulling the post from another site? Even then widgets should work the same on "page" pages and "post" pages. Could you try with the default theme and see if it is theme related?

BTW, on paisleygoddess.com, the images are very small in Firefox and Safari. This should be fixed in 3.1.8/3.1.9 but you can also keep your current version, and in style.css.php, change

.post img {
    max-width: 96%;

to

.post img {
    /*max-width: 96%;*/

In 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 this is solved differently. The max-width is only applied to local images that are inserted as "full size". But since you're using a fixed width layout anyway, you don't need the auto image resizing.

Thanks Flynn-

The "Recent Posts' widget disappeared when I switched over to the static page. I am using the theme on my other site (ashjoielee.com) and it still has that widget, so I was *assuming* it might be from switching to a static front page?? Not sure why some widgets disappeared. I could use the BFA pop posts widget, I was just hoping to have a list of the recent posts.
I made the changes in the HTML code for image size that you mentioned, but didn't see a difference...what images are you referring to that look too small?

I just set up Wordpress for my wife, porting over a dozen pages of content from her old website. Thank you for a great theme - so flexible and easy to work with! And your support is exceptional!

She wants to be able to blog, but doesn't want the site to appear as a blog. So I have set up a "greeting" page following your instructions, and a separate News page for her posts. So far so good, it was really easy based on your instructions.

My only question (for now) is whether it's possible to hide (not show) the page title for specific pages. I have named the greeting page "Home", which allows it to be intuitively selected from the Page menu. However, I don't want the word "Home" to be in big, bold type under the beautiful header graphic. I'd like to leave it out. (There are some other pages in which I'd like to do this as well.) Is this possible?

I am not clear as to what you want to do with that page because you mention you want that page to be intuitively selected from the page menu, but you also want to leave it out (?).

Besides what's mentioned in the post above regarding static page as home page, and the options at Atahualpa Theme Options -> Page Menu Bar, you can do this:


You can remove from and add pages to the page menu:

1. Removing pages from the menu:

Atahualpa Theme Options -> Page Menu Bar -> Exclude pages from Page Menu Bar?

2. Adding pages to the page menu:

These can be both internal pages, and pages to other websites.

2.1 Adding a page on the LEFT side of the menu:

In functions/bfa_header_config.php, line 13, find this

PHP Code:

if ($bfa_ata_home_page_menu_bar != '') { 


and add this right before it

PHP Code:

$page_menu_bar .= '<li><a href="link_to_that_page">Page Title</a></li>'; 


2.2 Adding a page on the RIGHT side of the menu:

In functions/bfa_header_config.php, line 23, find this

PHP Code:

$page_menu_bar .= '</ul></div></div>' . "\n"; 


and add this right before it

PHP Code:

 $page_menu_bar .= '<li><a href="link_to_that_page">Page Title</a></li>'; 


I know that not every possible solution is covered by these options, you'd have to see if you can achieve the desired result or something close to it with one of these, or the combination of several of these options.

Thanks for answering this promptly, and giving some interesting options to add links to external pages into the Page menu.

However, you misunderstood. I'm happy with having the link to the Home page in the Page menu.

On the home page (greeting page) of the site, the page title "Home" shows at the top of the page contents, just below the header / banner. This does not complement the design for that page. Is there a way to omit the automatic page title on the page itself? See my screen capture below.

Got it now... In index.php, should be line 88-103, find

PHP Code:

        <div class="post-headline">    
        <h2><?php 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php 
            if (function_exists('the_title_attribute')) { 
                the_title_attribute();
            } 
            elseif (function_exists('the_title')) { 
                the_title();
            } ?>"><?php 
        } the_title(); 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            </a><?php 
        } ?>
        </h2>
        </div>

and replace with

PHP Code:

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?>
        <div class="post-headline">    
        <h2><?php 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php 
            if (function_exists('the_title_attribute')) { 
                the_title_attribute();
            } 
            elseif (function_exists('the_title')) { 
                the_title();
            } ?>"><?php 
        } the_title(); 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            </a><?php 
        } ?>
        </h2>
        </div>
<?php } ?>

If due to the missing headline the content moves too close to the top, replace with this instead

PHP Code:

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?>
        <div class="post-headline">    
        <h2><?php 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php 
            if (function_exists('the_title_attribute')) { 
                the_title_attribute();
            } 
            elseif (function_exists('the_title')) { 
                the_title();
            } ?>"><?php 
        } the_title(); 
        if( !is_single() AND !is_page() ) { ?>
            </a><?php 
        } ?>
        </h2>
        </div>
<?php } else { ?>
<br /> 
<?php } ?>

Hi! I'm just a volunteer trying to put together a site for a nonprofit group - Ninepatch.org - so wanted to say 'thanks' to all the great folks who make WordPress and Atahualpa avail. free for folks like us. I also apreciate BB's like this where we can get help. Speaking of which, I've been trying to create a static home page for our site, Ninepatch OnLine, and was following these directions...

We're running WP 2.7.1, with Atahualpa theme and I could find where to make 'reading' options select a static home page, but I couldn't find any place to change the links in the navigation menu per STEP #4 in POST #2 to delete the HOME link.

I've searched through all the options in the dashboard for hours so if someone would be so kind as to direct me, would greatly apreciate it. Thank you!

Originally Posted by Witchypoo

I couldn't find any place to change the links in the navigation menu per STEP #4 in POST #2 to delete the HOME link.

I've searched through all the options in the dashboard for hours so if someone would be so kind as to direct me, would greatly apreciate it. Thank you!

Delete the word "Home" from that textfield, that's it

Originally Posted by Flynn

Delete the word "Home" from that textfield, that's it

Really do apreciate you responding but I'm afraid I mustn't have been clear. What I've been searching for is where to find the ...
"4) At Atahualpa Theme Options -> Page Menu Bar, " to "delete the "Home" from "Home link in Page Menu Bar" "
... I've searched the THEME OPTIONS page and can find only the 'yes/no' toggle to include the menu, but nothing that allows the described change.
Also, with...
"5) At Site Admin -> Pages, click on all pages and watch the menu tab "Attributes" on the right side. "
... When I used to open my WordPress, I had a Site Admin link that would allow me to see attributes, etc. Now, since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1, I can not find that Site Admin link and the only way I have to affect changes is through the side menu for settings. I've posted a screenshot so you can see what I mean, or perhaps describe where to find that option... if you would be so kind (?) Thanks again, Witchypoo<|: )

Originally Posted by Witchypoo

Really do apreciate you responding but I'm afraid I mustn't have been clear. What I've been searching for is where to find the ...
"4) At Atahualpa Theme Options -> Page Menu Bar, " to "delete the "Home" from "Home link in Page Menu Bar" "
... I've searched the THEME OPTIONS page and can find only the 'yes/no' toggle to include the menu, but nothing that allows the described change.
Also, with...
"5) At Site Admin -> Pages, click on all pages and watch the menu tab "Attributes" on the right side. "
... When I used to open my WordPress, I had a Site Admin link that would allow me to see attributes, etc. Now, since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1, I can not find that Site Admin link and the only way I have to affect changes is through the side menu for settings. I've posted a screenshot so you can see what I mean, or perhaps describe where to find that option... if you would be so kind (?) Thanks again, Witchypoo<|: )

4. You're running Atahualpa 2. Atahualpa 3 is optically similar but much different under the hood.

5. I've attached an image below. Click on Pages -> Edit -> [Title of a page] -> then you'll have the screen that is attached below

Hi! I am using Wordpress 3.0.4 and Atahualpa 3.6 for a website. The reading settings are set to a static front page and a different posts page. However, every time I attempt to publish a post, it immediately overwrites the static front page as well as publishing to the secondary posts page. I have chosen these settings with older versions of Atahualpa on other sites and have never seen this issue before. Please help me stop banging my head on the keyboard! Thanks!

are you on 3.6.0?
What is the url?

What EXACTLY are the settings for the options at dashboard->settings->reading
what happens if you switch to the TwentyTen theme?
Have you tried it with ALL plug-in's deactivated?