A Crash Course
I need a crash course on how to edit the themes on this site. That column on the right is kind of bugging me (I don’t even know what it’s trying to track). Also, I just like to know things.
Any suggestions on a good way to figure out how to edit this stuff? Do I need to know a computer language? I tried looking at the “edit themes” page, and I was a bit overwhelmed, but I’ve read that if you use Firefox as your browser you can get the developer tools from that and use those?? Is that correct?
Help a girl out. ;-)
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about 3 years ago
Hmmm…is this a WordPress theme? I’m going to assume that it is and offer some advice. If it doesn’t work, email me and I’ll try to help you.
You don’t really need to know HTML, but you’re going to be editing the code that makes up your theme. I’m guessing you’re trying to get rid of the “0″s after the links in the right sidebar, right? To do that:
- Go into your admin panel (where you post from)
- Hopefully, there’s a tab for “Presentation.” Click on it.
- Then click on “Theme Editor.”
- From there, it’ll bring up a list of files you can edit pertaining to your theme. To edit the links in your sidebar, try clicking on “Sidebar.”
- You’ll be looking for something in the code that looks like this (it might vary slightly, depending on your theme):
Categories(you’ve probably already renamed this ‘Friends & Links’)
- It looks worse than it is. See that part that says: &optioncount=1&hierarchical=0′? That’s the part that adds the number after your links.
- Delete &optioncount=1&hierarchical=0. (Make sure to leave the ‘ at the end.) You should now be left with something like this:
Categories
Hope this helps! Otherwise, just email me and we’ll try to figure it out!
about 3 years ago
Doh! The sample code I included in my 1st comment actually turned into a bold header. To clarify, when you’re editing your sidebar coding, you’ll be looking for this under the heading of “Friends & Links”: (‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0′).
Once you delete whatever part references a number (“&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0), then you should just have this remaining (‘sort_column=name’). That will leave your links up there, but without the number after them. The numbers are typically used for categories, so if you had a category about blogging, any entries you tagged with that category would be added to that total. So if you had 5 entries tagged with “blogging,” a 5 would appear after the “blogging” category.
about 3 years ago
Hmmmmm. I dunno. I play with mine a lot, but it’s a blogspot. I’m bad with html, but there are a lot of websites that have tips. Maybe do a search on editing blog html?
about 3 years ago
yeah editing is tough! hopefully you’ll be able to figure it all out!