In reply to: page vs post

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on the bright side I just rearranged how I wanted the site setup to fit my needs, using proper drop down menus and what not.

I cant express how much i like this theme, finding out new things constantly, still a bit new to it all =)

In reply to: page vs post

#19473

Where you can select for each page to have the columns and teh format to how its setup, can you actually change what widgets are available on those columns? When I select it its the widgets I ahve setup for the main page, cant change them, or at least find the option to change them individually for each page.

On a semi related note, Im trying to setup a second page much like the first page only it will host all blogs of specific catagory. Havign trouble figuring this out as everytime I make a page it wants me to start a new blog on it.

In reply to: Random Header Image- Change the Defaults

#19634

sorry for the not having backticks thing, know i know and will do that going forward!

thx for the word++ thingie, downloaded it and installing it now. Looks much easier to work in and I can get that line number i see everyone talking about.

Ya I wanted it to show a random header everytime it loaded anything. Probably like everyone else I just assumed that if i threw the images in the right folder it would work but I was so wrong.

I just bookmarked that wiki page you provided, imma read through it but I am very new to this php stuff and its a bit confusing, for now Im going to go with what I see works but obviously from what yoru saying you are right I need to learn how to do child themes and Ill be reading into that shortly.

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From what i gather so far I do have a quick questuion maybe you can clarify:

“This is a special WordPress-recognised template file. It will be automatically loaded way before any other template files is loaded. It’s used for a lot of purposes, such as defining new PHP function and setting up certain features for the theme.

This file is optional. Your child theme can work wihout this file, but if it is present, it will be loaded automatically. Unlike the other template files, when this file exists in your child theme, WordPress will load the child theme’s functions.php file first, and then the parent theme’s functions.php file. This means that both the functions.php file will be loaded. That is the reason why you should not copy the entire codes from the parent theme’s functions.php file.”

So if I make a new child theme for the functions.php and then I go and remove the code I put in the above post from the default functions and add just that code to the new child theme function then it will basically just be like merging the two sets of codes together, however when you update the theme I will retain my set of code through the update, is that correct?