Installing Wordpress

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I'd suggest if you haven't went too far, to completely reinstall wordpress with your new theme, from scratch.

<title>Whatever</title> - These are title tags, they only give the actual page title.

<h6>Whatever</h6> - These are probably NOT the "title" you are looking for. I believe you're looking to edit the Name of the blog that is displayed at the top of most themes. Most likely this will be located inside of <h1>Blog Name</h1> tags.

The easiest way for editing this stuff is by editing the style.css file. If you are trying to do this through the wordpress admin panel, you must realize that the files must not be read-only or else the changes won't save.

If you want to float a div to the left or right, you can use:

.divname {
float:right;
}

or

.divname {
float:left;
}

If you don't want to do it that way, you can find the header tags (<h1></h1>) that contain the blog name and do this:

Change from:

<h1><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>

to:

<h1><span style="float:left;"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></span></h1>

This should override the style.css and use the style specified in the span.
 


turbolapp said:
Got it. Thanks, threehundred.
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Crap. It's messed up again. It's the font. Everytime I add a page or a word up in the header it gets all jacked up.

Should I just remove the page links at the top all together? I don't like them anyway. How exactly would I do that?
 
This isn't the most appropriate way, but it will work. I could tell you better by seeing your "header.php" template file. Here is a "duct-tape" fix for it:

Change this line in your style.css file:


#gnav {font:normal 11pt Arial,sans-serif;list-style:none;}

to:


#gnav {font:normal 11pt Arial,sans-serif;list-style:none;display:none;}

turbolapp said:
Crap. It's messed up again. It's the font. Everytime I add a page or a word up in the header it gets all jacked up.

Should I just remove the page links at the top all together? I don't like them anyway. How exactly would I do that?
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threehundred said:
This isn't the most appropriate way, but it will work. I could tell you better by seeing your "header.php" template file. Here is a "duct-tape" fix for it:

Change this line in your style.css file:


#gnav {font:normal 11pt Arial,sans-serif;list-style:none;}

to:


#gnav {font:normal 11pt Arial,sans-serif;list-style:none;display:none;}
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I can't keep reducing the font can I? (pretty soon it will be non existant!) Is there some way to disable the hyperlink from the pages to the header? I'll hit you up on AIM when I get home. Thanks for help.
 
What I just showed you doesn't reduce the font, it completely doesn't display the div that its formatting. See the "display:none;" part.
 
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I installed WP on Godaddy yesterday from scratch using this: http://www.wickedfire.com/traffic-supreme/12690-complete-guide-wordpress-blogging.html
It didn't work initially, but after alot of crap and talking to godaddy it turns out the entries to wp-config-sample.php are slightly different. I may be behind the discussion here but if needed I can suggest the tweaks. It works great now, but I haven't started doing any plug-ins, etc., so that may be a different story.
 
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