Support and FAQ
How to Install, Use & Learn Wordpress
If you’re completely new to Wordpress, then you need to learn a bit before moving forward. After all, this is only a Wordpress Theme. It requires a proper installation of Wordpress. Luckily, the creators of Wordpress have setup an entire training site just for you. Best thing…it’s completely FREE. Check it out. Wordpress.tv
How to Install the Theme
How to Use the Theme
How I Create PPC/CPA Landing Pages
How do I edit the footer?
How do I hide pages?
Update 3/29/2009: I can confirm using the plugin will keep pages out of the Google index. Yesterday, one of my pages appeared for a few hours…now it’s completely gone. Not sure about the other search engines though. I know Alexa doesn’t respect any sites robots or sitemap declarations.
Update 3/30/2009: I found another great plugin with the help of Andy Beard that lets you selectively pick pages and posts to “‘noindex’” in Google’s search results. Just download/install/activate it, and open the post you want to edit. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the post, and you’ll see a checkbox with 4 options (index/follow, index/no follow, noindex/follow, noindex/nofollow). ‘Index’ means it will appear in Google. ‘Follow’ means links will be followed and given seo juice. I’m using noindex/follow on WordpressPPC. I most likely will use noindex/nofollow on affiliate sites. (Download)
Why don’t the links in my footer work?
You need to update the permalinks structure in Wordpress. In the Wordpress Admin, go to Settings > Permalinks.
Check on “custom structure” and put this in the box:
/%postname%
Then, when creating or editing the footer pages, make sure the “slug” for Privacy Policy is “privacy-policy”. Terms of Service should be “terms-of-service” and Contact Us should be “contact-us”. Without quotes of course. Screenshot
The form boxes are too big. How do I fix this?
When I created the theme, I made the forms larger than life to promote action and signups. Obviously, this may not work for everyone in every case. If you wish to remove this formatting, you will need to replace your style.css file.
Below is a link to the “normal-form sized” CSS files. Unzip, select the folder that matches your template color, and replace the style.css file in your “wp-content/themes/Wordpress-PPC-Template/” directory with the style.css you unzipped.
[Download the Form/Button Fix]
If you’re more “hands-on” you can simply delete all the code between the /* start Button */ and /* end Button */ in your style.css file beginning around line 823.
How Do I Widen the Theme…or Make it “Bigger”?
To accomplish this, you need to edit the style.css file located in the Theme folder. Login to the admin and select “Appearance” then “Theme Editor” and click on Style.css on the right side.
Then look for the following:
.Sheet
{
overflow: hidden;
min-width:49px;
min-height:49px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
width: 700px;
}
and
.contentLayout .content
{
position: relative;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
width: 665px;
}
You need to change the numbers in bold red to the size you want. In the example above, the 700px is the actual width of the theme rounded borders. The 665px is the post content area (where the text goes). There must always be a difference of 35 pixels to accomodate the padding and margins. So you can change it to 800/765 or 900/865 or even 750/715 if you want. Save the changes and you’re done.
How Do I Add Comments to Page?
For comments, here’s what you need to do.
Open up the Wordpress Theme Editor. (Appearance > Editor)
Click on Page Template (page.php) on the right side.
Scroll down in the middle code window.
Look for:
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
Change it to
</div>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
All you’re doing is adding the extra line in red.
Click “Update File”.
Finally, make sure the page itself has comments enabled on the Page “Edit” screen.
How Do I Add an RSS Button to the Theme?
The theme wasn’t equipped with an RSS Button. This was done on purpose to reduce “leakage”. Besides, most modern browsers can see and find RSS feeds automatically…which makes the button almost useless. If you still want to display it, you’ll need to create a footer link (See “How Do I Edit the Footer” movie above). Name is “RSS” and the link should point to http://www.yoursite.com/feed
I’m getting a Not Found Error
If you’re getting the following error:
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.
if(function_exists('get_search_form')) get_search_form();
The fix is simple. Add a post. This error kicks up if there aren’t any posts to display.
My Quotes are Right-Aligned.
This is a styles.css bug. In your theme, go to Themes > Editor. Then on the right side, click on the styles.css file (Stylesheet). Find the following declaration:
blockquote
{
border-color:#AFC6D4;
border-width: 2px;
border-style: dashed;
margin:10px 10px 10px 50px;
padding:5px 5px 5px 28px;
background-color:#FBFAC1;
background-image:url('images/PostQuote.png');
background-position:left top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
Change it to:
blockquote
{
border-color:#AFC6D4;
border-width: 2px;
border-style: dashed;
margin:10px 10px 10px 10px;
padding:5px 5px 5px 28px;
background-color:#FBFAC1;
background-image:url('images/PostQuote.png');
background-position:left top;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
You only need to change the “margin:10px 10px 10px 50px;” to “margin:10px 10px 10px 10px;”.