Wordpress - multiple questions

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So I'm thinking I should actually do something with my website now, so just for now a couple of questions about Wordpress.


Posts on a page in blog style? Is there a plugin for this?

Disabling comments on a page? Is there a default setting you change any where? Or will I have to change some stuff in the actual theme, I'm using the default one for now, as it's quite nice. And when I start to learn HTML / CSS again I'll have a play with it myself.
 
Hey Azza,

yes you can definately disable comments on pages, I remember doing it for someone not so long ago its a setting within WP.

I dont get what you mean by posts on a page mate?

Stelly
 
Azza said:
So I'm thinking I should actually do something with my website now, so just for now a couple of questions about Wordpress.


Posts on a page in blog style? Is there a plugin for this?
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Not sure what you mean by this?

Azza said:
Disabling comments on a page? Is there a default setting you change any where? Or will I have to change some stuff in the actual theme, I'm using the default one for now, as it's quite nice. And when I start to learn HTML / CSS again I'll have a play with it myself.
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You can disable comments on pages - its a standard option when you create a new page :)
 
On static page like an about me page - clicky there is still the box to add comments. I can't find a setting within the dashboard to disable them.

There is an option to disable comments for posts ----> Default article settings ----> Allow people to post comments on new articles.

That one works fine for posts, but it doesn't stop comments being allowed on pages.


Azza said:
Posts on a page in blog style? Is there a plugin for this?
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I mean by that... have multiple pages which you can post to. So I have 1 where i put stuff about something, and then other where there is 'x' stuff, and a 3rd which contains 'y' stuff. I know you can categorize posts and tag them etc to filter through stuff, but it would just look more organised I think.

Or would I have to do something like create a menu and then add pages to the menu together with categories.
 
Azza said:
That one works fine for posts, but it doesn't stop comments being allowed on pages.

I mean by that... have multiple pages which you can post to. So I have 1 where i put stuff about something, and then other where there is 'x' stuff, and a 3rd which contains 'y' stuff. I know you can categorize posts and tag them etc to filter through stuff, but it would just look more organised I think.

Or would I have to do something like create a menu and then add pages to the menu together with categories.
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There should be a discussion box on the page's admin bit. Otherwise check your discussion settings. Or the template the page is using, but thats TwentyTen you're using there so I know that works.

I only use pages on my website, so if you take a look around that it might help you see what's possible.
 
Found the tick box for page comments, it's under quick edit of each page. There isn't one to set a default option under any of the settings, guessing I'd have to edit the template to make a default option.


From what I can tell the easiest option for what I want would be to create a Menu and arrange everything in categories and posts categorized to appear in the right ones and create a static page and set that as my home page.
 
Azza said:
Found the tick box for page comments, it's under quick edit of each page. There isn't one to set a default option under any of the settings, guessing I'd have to edit the template to make a default option.
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If you want to remove the comments from all pages (not posts) then in the twentyten theme folder open up the file 'loop-page.php'. On line 34 it has the code

Code: 
<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

Set this to false and it should remove the comments from all the themes pages.

Hope this helps, I'm just getting to grips with WordPress myself.
 
Wordpress is one of the most best webpages around once they are configured correctly, alough somtimes they are a pain to configure. Depemds what it's going to be used for because it's not just a blogging tool. The plugin list is massive.
 
pieplough said:
If you want to remove the comments from all pages (not posts) then in the twentyten theme folder open up the file 'loop-page.php'. On line 34 it has the code

Code: 
<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

Set this to false and it should remove the comments from all the themes pages.

Hope this helps, I'm just getting to grips with WordPress myself.
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Awesome, thanks. Will check it out later on.


iDroid84 said:
Wordpress is one of the most best webpages around once they are configured correctly, alough somtimes they are a pain to configure. Depemds what it's going to be used for because it's not just a blogging tool. The plugin list is massive.
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Indeed, there so many plugins for different things and each one has different features to the others.
 
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