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I would like to think have followed the instructions as per:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/custom-dropdown-menu-trick
However, "after saving and going to view t
I would like to think have followed the instructions as per:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/custom-dropdown-menu-trick
However, "after saving and going to view t
I receive this message after clicking on my website name in WA's "Build your website. The odd thing is the usual WP user and password login does not come up just this:
Hey Chester,
I suggest creating a hosting support ticket so that we can look into this. You can do this from here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
We'll investigate the issue right away after you submit your ticket :)
Carson
This...
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down.
• Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
• Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
• Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you're unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
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I receive this message after clicking on my website name in WA's "Build your website. The odd thing is the usual WP user and password login does not come up just this:
Hey Chester,
I suggest creating a hosting support ticket so that we can look into this. You can do this from here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support
We'll investigate the issue right away after you submit your ticket :)
Carson
This...
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down.
• Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
• Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
• Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you're unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
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I understand this is basic for you, but not being able to get a category to show up in the navigation menu after a couple of weeks is frankly nerve wracking. Not even close to t
For example. Here I created a post and it belongs under the "Feeding Your Pets" and not the home page. That said how is it moved to that category?
Shelley, (or anyone who wishes to contribute)
In your site you have a category 'Equipment", a drop down menu listing different types of cameras. Now the question. From what I gather (so far) is that in order to create a link to a URL, it can only be done on posts. Thanks to Paul Dean I was able to create categories, however with 'pages' which do not seem to have that link option.
At this point I am looking into how I covert my pages to post so I may incorporate links (via images) to affiliate sites. After reading the difference between posts and pages a thousand times, I am still up in the air what content goes into which.
Anyway, thought you may wish to have your camera images linked to a affiliate camera supplier.
Pages are the pieces of content which are generally accessed from a top menu on websites. They're static and contain information you want to remain in place for the duration of the site. Posts tend to be used for articles which are topical, and which you write to add content to your site. These are often truncated for display with a "read more" link to expand the page.
If your site is set up as a static site, which it is, then your posts (or blog posts to be correct) will appear under the categories menu as you have them. If you set your site up as a blog, then the posts will appear several to a page, and the top post will be replaced as you write new ones.
Try changing it temporarily to see what I mean. Go to Dashboard>settings>reading and look at the top of the page. Then change it back.
Ok, you created your blog post Feeding your pets. If you want it under the menu tab of the same name (which may be a page or category) check the box on the page where you created your blog (I assume you want it to be a category). If it isn't appearing, make sure the tab Feeding your Pets IS A CATEGORY and not a page. They will look alike on your website. Go to appearance/menus and check to see whether you have it as a page or category. That was one mistake I had made when I switched some of mine to categories from pages. I didn't change it here. If you don't and select category for your post, you won't see the post (except on your home page) because you haven't created the category of FYPets, only a page. Hope that wasn't too confusing.
You can create a link to a URL on posts, pages and categories. My About me tab is a page. My Equipment tab is a category and my post about my street article has a link. It may be the theme you have chose. My first one would not allow the drop down categories like the equipment tab, so I had to find another.
I would google your theme and URL links on images to sites to see what it says. That is how I found my theme.
I appreciate the thought of having my images link to an affiliate. I just added my affiliates friday. Trying to get an SA out today and then follow the course outline which does have me adding affiliates, but I am a bit under the weather today and not really up to this much thinking.
You cannot convert a page to a post. A post is the article you add to a page or category. I would let your theme put your posts on the home page for now. Work on getting them to show up under a caetgory or page.
If I follow correctly, you have big and small as a post. It appears under your home page and under your category of feeding your pets. Looks ok to me.
You have welcome as a category, but no menu tab by that name. Create the category as a menu tab.
Hope that helps.
Shelley8492,
More then grateful for the depth and length of the instructions. I assure I will 'go over" with a solid read once I am back into it. May sound juvenile but honestly after attempting categories (4) I see 1. Then while following WP to insert an image (for a URL) it says go to post and all I see are pages. Then I send it to a friend who says they are all 'blogs'.
At this stage I must digress back and define each so I know the "what" . I know what i want, it is another thing to understand the steps.
For me a is a bit uphill right now. And this is from someone who was a top performer on Wall Street. lol
No matter, eventually I'll develop an affinity sooner or later. Took more then a year to get an email that worked after purchasing at the time the most expensive iMac. Mac's 'mail' worked for 2 weeks until I rebooted. Literally carried it twice to the apple store. Had 20 minutes before closing and the so named level 1 genius could not understand why it would repeatedly ask for a password that was verified in the keychain. Second time back to level 2 genius. I assumed he was smarter then level 1. Nope, they downloaded thunderbird for me and said forget about apple's 'mail'. From there on I suspected this was not going to be a pleasant journey.
In any case thank you and in time it will all work out.
You are more than welcome! I haven't been a member for even 3 months yet and the reason I know the answer to your question is because someone assisted me. That is what we are here for. I understand the need for a break after so much frustration. Don't wait too long and maybe make some notes. I had changed some pages to categories, but hadn't completed all I wanted to change. I had to take a break for some surgery and when I went back to it, I had to rethink it again. Just open notepad/word and label it notes. It has really helped.
I mentioned exactly what you mean about posts, pages and blogs. I think once you read what I provided it will make more sense. I gave examples with my site so you can see what I am talking about. That helped me. I am a visual person. Fell free to contact me if it doesn't click for you.
Chester, just follow these instructions, one step at a time:
If you go to Pages in the Dashboard menu, click "add new" and add a title and some content, even if it's just "test". save the page by hitting "publish". Many people forget this. Next, go to appearance>menus and create a menu by naming it (say, menu 1) in the name menu box, and hitting "save menu" .
To the left of the menu you'll see the page you made - tick the box and click "add to menu" and it will appear in the menu on the right. Hit "save menu".
Above all this is a tab marked "Locations". Click it, and select the primary menu as "Menu 1" or whatever you named it. Save again. Now go back to your website and you should see a horizontal menu with your single tab titled with your page title. Rinse and repeat to build the menu.
If you can do this, come back and we'll tell you how to make a blogroll with posts.
PS I studied Latin, and didn't find it easier.
Oh, yea, know we are talking. thanks paul. this is really helping me to. He is not the only one needing this help. thanks. I am off to make the menu. brb.
Chester…you have a lot of value to offer our community. I hate to see you frustrated. Really, you don't have to shell out $K to get your site running. Just take the progressive steps offered through the training. You will be successful. You have a lot of support here. We have all been frustrated at times. It does take a serious effort. If content is no problem, you have a big part of the effort taken care of right there. Many of us struggle for content and writing. Stay with it.
Massive? More like dizzy...Here is what it says under help....
Pages are similar to posts in that they have a title, body text, and associated metadata, but they are different in that they are not part of the chronological blog stream, kind of like permanent posts. Pages are not categorized or tagged, but can have a hierarchy. You can nest pages under other pages by making one the “Parent” of the other, creating a group of pages. Frankly Have no idea which one you create first. Menu, category, page, tab, I can write an entire dissertation on the subject and not know where to write it so that it shows up. Thats it for the night.
What you need to do first is to create your Menu which includes; Home, About me, Contact, and Privacy Policy...worry the next after:)
I see you have received some assistance and everyone is telling you how, but not what. Maybe I can help. I was in the same boat a bit ago. You probably know the info, but the terms are unfamiliar and sometime the training/person interchanges some of the terms which makes it confusing. At least it did for me.
Back in course 1, lesson 8, you created PAGES - about me, privacy policy, etc. Those automatically (I think) went into the menu (navigation area) of your website. A page is text/images that you probably won't change, like the original pages you made. A page can have a parent. On my site - http://www.flowerphotographyfordummies.com, I have Equipment as a page. It is the parent to point and shoot camera and DSLR, which are also pages. A blog is text/image that will post to your HOME page unless you tell it otherwise. You will update your site with blogs.
Your blog post can have a CATEGORY. You will need to decide on where you want your blogs to go. I started my site and then realized the way they were showing wasn't really the way I wanted it to be. It is a bit hard when you don't know what you are going to learn or write about in the beginning, so you may have to change things once you get going. I decided to have all my blogs show up in the blog roll on the home page. But, I will be adding blogs about where to take photos and what to do with them and I wanted those blogs to show up under those text names or I think some call them tabs and out of habit a menu, but my "tabs/menu" for those two discussions are actually CATEGORIES. You can't tell from looking at the site. About me is a page and where to photo is a category. So when I create a blog on where to photograph, it will show up under my home tab and if I tell the blog text to show up under the category, it will go under that tab also. So, as @Rich said, you can start your blog, and on the right add a category. That category can have a parent also. Or you can go to post/categories and add your categories first. I needed to do that to see what areas of topics I was going to have. The when I create my blog, I select my category and it will post there and on the blog roll.
Once you create your category, go to menu (as @RICH said - don't want to take away from him), select categories and select add to menu. You'll see the structure on the right side and your menu items may say page or category. If you want one to be a sub or child of a parent, just hover your mouse until you get a move icon and slide it to the right a bit and save it. When you go to your site, you will see your tabs. If you select a parent, the children will show up underneath. As lanesamarie said - your menu is created by pages and categories.
My wordpress theme only allows one menu. I recommend not creating new menus and names unless you know what you are doing. My last theme, which didn't work for me (didn't allow categories on the menu if I recall), I made a new menu and then it didn't show up correctly on my site and I didn't know exactly how I made it, how to change it (I'm not a webmaster) and it was very confusing.
I hope that helps and not too oversimplified. Sometimes I need it really simple, but once I get the grasp I wonder why I didn't get it the first time. Just work through the steps, which for me is hard to do w/o seeing the big picture, and you'll probably come up on training on categories or posts where others, like me, had the same questions.
Good luck and don't give up. If I can do it anyone can.
Well, I keep trying only if to convince myself I will see a category in the menu. I assume the category doesn't show up until I draft a 'post'. Then I'll pray the post shows up under the right category. For now there are no tabs because there is no menu bar
You need to create a menu. Go to Appearance > Menus. You'll be on a tab that says Edit Menu. Here you can add Pages, Links and Categories to a Menu. Then switch from the Edit Menu tab to the Manage Locations tab and set where that Menu is to appear. :) Rich.
Sorry to hear your having problems with using wordpress. I understand. I been stuck for at least a week myself. And I have experience building sites, just not blogs and not with wordpress.
It can seem "massive" at the start but it does get easier with practice. You add categories when you're editing Posts in the box on the right hand side. To add those Posts as a group to a menu, go to Appearance > Menus and instead of adding Pages or Links, add whichever Categories you want. Click on the top tab, Manage Locations and set the menu to appear where you want it. Hope this helps! :) Rich.
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I understand this is basic for you, but not being able to get a category to show up in the navigation menu after a couple of weeks is frankly nerve wracking. Not even close to t
For example. Here I created a post and it belongs under the "Feeding Your Pets" and not the home page. That said how is it moved to that category?
Shelley, (or anyone who wishes to contribute)
In your site you have a category 'Equipment", a drop down menu listing different types of cameras. Now the question. From what I gather (so far) is that in order to create a link to a URL, it can only be done on posts. Thanks to Paul Dean I was able to create categories, however with 'pages' which do not seem to have that link option.
At this point I am looking into how I covert my pages to post so I may incorporate links (via images) to affiliate sites. After reading the difference between posts and pages a thousand times, I am still up in the air what content goes into which.
Anyway, thought you may wish to have your camera images linked to a affiliate camera supplier.
Pages are the pieces of content which are generally accessed from a top menu on websites. They're static and contain information you want to remain in place for the duration of the site. Posts tend to be used for articles which are topical, and which you write to add content to your site. These are often truncated for display with a "read more" link to expand the page.
If your site is set up as a static site, which it is, then your posts (or blog posts to be correct) will appear under the categories menu as you have them. If you set your site up as a blog, then the posts will appear several to a page, and the top post will be replaced as you write new ones.
Try changing it temporarily to see what I mean. Go to Dashboard>settings>reading and look at the top of the page. Then change it back.
Ok, you created your blog post Feeding your pets. If you want it under the menu tab of the same name (which may be a page or category) check the box on the page where you created your blog (I assume you want it to be a category). If it isn't appearing, make sure the tab Feeding your Pets IS A CATEGORY and not a page. They will look alike on your website. Go to appearance/menus and check to see whether you have it as a page or category. That was one mistake I had made when I switched some of mine to categories from pages. I didn't change it here. If you don't and select category for your post, you won't see the post (except on your home page) because you haven't created the category of FYPets, only a page. Hope that wasn't too confusing.
You can create a link to a URL on posts, pages and categories. My About me tab is a page. My Equipment tab is a category and my post about my street article has a link. It may be the theme you have chose. My first one would not allow the drop down categories like the equipment tab, so I had to find another.
I would google your theme and URL links on images to sites to see what it says. That is how I found my theme.
I appreciate the thought of having my images link to an affiliate. I just added my affiliates friday. Trying to get an SA out today and then follow the course outline which does have me adding affiliates, but I am a bit under the weather today and not really up to this much thinking.
You cannot convert a page to a post. A post is the article you add to a page or category. I would let your theme put your posts on the home page for now. Work on getting them to show up under a caetgory or page.
If I follow correctly, you have big and small as a post. It appears under your home page and under your category of feeding your pets. Looks ok to me.
You have welcome as a category, but no menu tab by that name. Create the category as a menu tab.
Hope that helps.
Shelley8492,
More then grateful for the depth and length of the instructions. I assure I will 'go over" with a solid read once I am back into it. May sound juvenile but honestly after attempting categories (4) I see 1. Then while following WP to insert an image (for a URL) it says go to post and all I see are pages. Then I send it to a friend who says they are all 'blogs'.
At this stage I must digress back and define each so I know the "what" . I know what i want, it is another thing to understand the steps.
For me a is a bit uphill right now. And this is from someone who was a top performer on Wall Street. lol
No matter, eventually I'll develop an affinity sooner or later. Took more then a year to get an email that worked after purchasing at the time the most expensive iMac. Mac's 'mail' worked for 2 weeks until I rebooted. Literally carried it twice to the apple store. Had 20 minutes before closing and the so named level 1 genius could not understand why it would repeatedly ask for a password that was verified in the keychain. Second time back to level 2 genius. I assumed he was smarter then level 1. Nope, they downloaded thunderbird for me and said forget about apple's 'mail'. From there on I suspected this was not going to be a pleasant journey.
In any case thank you and in time it will all work out.
You are more than welcome! I haven't been a member for even 3 months yet and the reason I know the answer to your question is because someone assisted me. That is what we are here for. I understand the need for a break after so much frustration. Don't wait too long and maybe make some notes. I had changed some pages to categories, but hadn't completed all I wanted to change. I had to take a break for some surgery and when I went back to it, I had to rethink it again. Just open notepad/word and label it notes. It has really helped.
I mentioned exactly what you mean about posts, pages and blogs. I think once you read what I provided it will make more sense. I gave examples with my site so you can see what I am talking about. That helped me. I am a visual person. Fell free to contact me if it doesn't click for you.
Chester, just follow these instructions, one step at a time:
If you go to Pages in the Dashboard menu, click "add new" and add a title and some content, even if it's just "test". save the page by hitting "publish". Many people forget this. Next, go to appearance>menus and create a menu by naming it (say, menu 1) in the name menu box, and hitting "save menu" .
To the left of the menu you'll see the page you made - tick the box and click "add to menu" and it will appear in the menu on the right. Hit "save menu".
Above all this is a tab marked "Locations". Click it, and select the primary menu as "Menu 1" or whatever you named it. Save again. Now go back to your website and you should see a horizontal menu with your single tab titled with your page title. Rinse and repeat to build the menu.
If you can do this, come back and we'll tell you how to make a blogroll with posts.
PS I studied Latin, and didn't find it easier.
Oh, yea, know we are talking. thanks paul. this is really helping me to. He is not the only one needing this help. thanks. I am off to make the menu. brb.
Chester…you have a lot of value to offer our community. I hate to see you frustrated. Really, you don't have to shell out $K to get your site running. Just take the progressive steps offered through the training. You will be successful. You have a lot of support here. We have all been frustrated at times. It does take a serious effort. If content is no problem, you have a big part of the effort taken care of right there. Many of us struggle for content and writing. Stay with it.
Massive? More like dizzy...Here is what it says under help....
Pages are similar to posts in that they have a title, body text, and associated metadata, but they are different in that they are not part of the chronological blog stream, kind of like permanent posts. Pages are not categorized or tagged, but can have a hierarchy. You can nest pages under other pages by making one the “Parent” of the other, creating a group of pages. Frankly Have no idea which one you create first. Menu, category, page, tab, I can write an entire dissertation on the subject and not know where to write it so that it shows up. Thats it for the night.
What you need to do first is to create your Menu which includes; Home, About me, Contact, and Privacy Policy...worry the next after:)
I see you have received some assistance and everyone is telling you how, but not what. Maybe I can help. I was in the same boat a bit ago. You probably know the info, but the terms are unfamiliar and sometime the training/person interchanges some of the terms which makes it confusing. At least it did for me.
Back in course 1, lesson 8, you created PAGES - about me, privacy policy, etc. Those automatically (I think) went into the menu (navigation area) of your website. A page is text/images that you probably won't change, like the original pages you made. A page can have a parent. On my site - http://www.flowerphotographyfordummies.com, I have Equipment as a page. It is the parent to point and shoot camera and DSLR, which are also pages. A blog is text/image that will post to your HOME page unless you tell it otherwise. You will update your site with blogs.
Your blog post can have a CATEGORY. You will need to decide on where you want your blogs to go. I started my site and then realized the way they were showing wasn't really the way I wanted it to be. It is a bit hard when you don't know what you are going to learn or write about in the beginning, so you may have to change things once you get going. I decided to have all my blogs show up in the blog roll on the home page. But, I will be adding blogs about where to take photos and what to do with them and I wanted those blogs to show up under those text names or I think some call them tabs and out of habit a menu, but my "tabs/menu" for those two discussions are actually CATEGORIES. You can't tell from looking at the site. About me is a page and where to photo is a category. So when I create a blog on where to photograph, it will show up under my home tab and if I tell the blog text to show up under the category, it will go under that tab also. So, as @Rich said, you can start your blog, and on the right add a category. That category can have a parent also. Or you can go to post/categories and add your categories first. I needed to do that to see what areas of topics I was going to have. The when I create my blog, I select my category and it will post there and on the blog roll.
Once you create your category, go to menu (as @RICH said - don't want to take away from him), select categories and select add to menu. You'll see the structure on the right side and your menu items may say page or category. If you want one to be a sub or child of a parent, just hover your mouse until you get a move icon and slide it to the right a bit and save it. When you go to your site, you will see your tabs. If you select a parent, the children will show up underneath. As lanesamarie said - your menu is created by pages and categories.
My wordpress theme only allows one menu. I recommend not creating new menus and names unless you know what you are doing. My last theme, which didn't work for me (didn't allow categories on the menu if I recall), I made a new menu and then it didn't show up correctly on my site and I didn't know exactly how I made it, how to change it (I'm not a webmaster) and it was very confusing.
I hope that helps and not too oversimplified. Sometimes I need it really simple, but once I get the grasp I wonder why I didn't get it the first time. Just work through the steps, which for me is hard to do w/o seeing the big picture, and you'll probably come up on training on categories or posts where others, like me, had the same questions.
Good luck and don't give up. If I can do it anyone can.
Well, I keep trying only if to convince myself I will see a category in the menu. I assume the category doesn't show up until I draft a 'post'. Then I'll pray the post shows up under the right category. For now there are no tabs because there is no menu bar
You need to create a menu. Go to Appearance > Menus. You'll be on a tab that says Edit Menu. Here you can add Pages, Links and Categories to a Menu. Then switch from the Edit Menu tab to the Manage Locations tab and set where that Menu is to appear. :) Rich.
Sorry to hear your having problems with using wordpress. I understand. I been stuck for at least a week myself. And I have experience building sites, just not blogs and not with wordpress.
It can seem "massive" at the start but it does get easier with practice. You add categories when you're editing Posts in the box on the right hand side. To add those Posts as a group to a menu, go to Appearance > Menus and instead of adding Pages or Links, add whichever Categories you want. Click on the top tab, Manage Locations and set the menu to appear where you want it. Hope this helps! :) Rich.
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I continue to receive this message alert while attempting to create a forward domain specific email.
I continue to receive this message alert while attempting to create a forward domain specific email.
At this stage it is a bit confusing setting up an email on my desktop mail server. I have a mac and use thunderbird. Problem is i don't know at this stage if it is WA or WP that
It's possible you'll find it easier if you click on Email in the blue bar in Websites & Hosting, and create Forwards, ie. yourname@equityassets.com > yourname@gmail.com or whatever email service your using in conjunction with Thunderbird. You can then use "aliases" from Thunderbird to reply so to recipients and anyone emailing you it will all appear as though email is being sent and received solely through your official domain. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/creating-email-accounts-email-forwards-for-your-website :) Rich.
At this stage it is a bit confusing setting up an email on my desktop mail server. I have a mac and use thunderbird. Problem is i don't know at this stage if it is WA or WP that
It's possible you'll find it easier if you click on Email in the blue bar in Websites & Hosting, and create Forwards, ie. yourname@equityassets.com > yourname@gmail.com or whatever email service your using in conjunction with Thunderbird. You can then use "aliases" from Thunderbird to reply so to recipients and anyone emailing you it will all appear as though email is being sent and received solely through your official domain. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/creating-email-accounts-email-forwards-for-your-website :) Rich.
you need to add the post to your custom menu something like this http://d.pr/i/eV8y