Draft of ideasto put in the header/masthead region
This is “Jim’s” site – which I hope will also be a place where
others can muse, discuss and show their work of creativity.
Creativity in ways of adapting to aging, in doing art, in making things, in writing, in travel.
The site is being developed as a creative outlet. A place to try things, analyze, and try some more. It may not fit you. But if it does – Welcome!

* Worked on a poem to use as a sanmple for critiques.
* Updated postie and changed the settings to delte post on the server. (I had a bunch of posts.)

To do:
Take affirmations from heading.
* Look over user profiles. Do mine – and the trial ones.
* Critique- find the writeup * Poem review once more and put up for critique
* Consider a slider in the lower menu area (A carousel of diy project pictures, or a single at a time slide show in the upper right sidebar.
* Figure out why posties come in with all the html showing
* Edit the affirmations list. Delete some, shorten some. Spelling. Makes sense.
* make a file of 10 or so 500x500px photos for the sidebar slider.
*

1. Tried to get the circle icons on the blog-loop page to be smaller. I enabled the features from the vantage widget group. I installed features on the sidebar. Then clicked add and made a smaller different color circle icon. I It did indead make the icon I had specified – but on the sidebar. So how do I get it on the main post loop page? Mabe on the page maker page (I don;t think so but I’ll look.)
2. I looked over the editor and the themes CSS. Then turned on developer in the firefox browser. I searched for some snipits to use, as finding the area I need in the editor, copying the part needed to custom CSS, and modifiedg it there – was not clear. I pasted a snipey in custom CSS from the vantage site. That didn’t show any effect.
3. The beautiful active filter, the one that I thought might allow multiple categories – doesn’t show up on the side bar at all. No idea why. (I went into taxonomy filters under settings under appearance. A basic abnd advanced tab arethere. The idea isto select the post types – but I don;t see how to do it. Only links are shown.
4. When i click on read-it, I get the post loop without the large ugly icon.
5. When I click on a category on the sidebar, The blobby cion appears.  How do I get rid of it???
6.  I put the affirmations in the header. They are good there – except the text is too faint and so they don’t show up. I could make the header less intense, or figure out how to increase the font and boldness of the affirmation. I did not see any obvious way to do this – other than find the css and mage a custom CSS.

The shortcode follows: ****************************

[catlist id=1+2+3+4+5]

The short code is done. **************************

I couldn’t believe wordpress would allow executable statements with in a post. It doesn’t. The tags are used in template files.

Short code is different.  By referencing the correct name and enclosing in brackets in a post it will execute exactly what the short code is meant to do.

The following tag should put in info about the blog:

<?php bloginfo(‘name’);?>

And this is after the name.

From Andrew (Site Origins) Dashboard -> Appearance -> Home page, at the top click”edit as page” button, Locate the Page Template drop down menu in the right column and set as Default.

Update

Be sure Browser cach is empty. (I firefox, click menu, choose options, select advanced from the left panel, click Network Tab, In the cached web content section click Clear now.

This is just a image upload test

OK, I upgraded to vantage pro and their “pay what it is worth” methodology. The problem is I don’t yet have a feeling for what it is worth to me! I went with the suggested $15, which I imagine most people do.I

I used the insert media button above to put in the 150×150 image and thought I had set it to have text wrap around on the right. So far it’s not doing that. I went back and did it again – after having written some text and everything worked fine. So the key is to write first. There isn’t a lot of fine tuning that I cound find. Ie to set the margins around the photo and that sort of thing. But, the default seems just fine for normal posting.

I added a new taxonomy – “Types.” containing experiences, links, heros, reviews, and experiences as over all means of categorizing content.

1. Using the user-submitted- content plug in I see no way to assign a Type to the post.
2. I just discovered you can only assign a single category describer.
2, I can add a type in from the dashboard, using the sidebar.
3. I can add more category types at the pending review time.
5. Format, in the side bar, shows Link (which I added) as a post typpe. ie post type = Format

I need a way to organize two ways. By type of post, ie a link, experience, recomendation, mywork

Also by all the categories.
So if I want Links to do with web development I show just those post with a Link which have been categoriZed with web development.

FAQ –
In Vantage the following terms need to be clearly understood:
Heading The area at the top of the page which may contain the logo,
Menu The primary meny may be in a bar below the heading, or in the heading
Logo – a graphic which may be the entire header, or icon sized used at the beginning of the menu bar. The log is always a link to the home page. (I think this is true.)

MastHead,  I think this is the combination of the header and logo.

Slider: The graphic below the header. It can be a single image, or multiple images.  (For this site, it seems superflous and I have not used one.)

To take out the slider: dashboard ….

To upload a logo: Dashboard-> Appearance -> Thene Settings -> Logo

To specify the logo in the header or in the navigation bar:

Dashboard ->    Customizing -> Layout  … masthead Default

To Make the header take up the full width of the screen.

My trys; Make the width 1600px

use custom css  with the vantage custom css app.

/* Header Padding */

header#masthead .hgroup {
padding-bottom: 45px !important;
padding-top: 45px !important;
}

seach “change of size of masthead in site origon .com

Still working on this.

Designing a logo: size 1049X 150. Use Gimp, Adobe photoshop, ??? monkey (on line), any graphics program. Save it as a prn file.

October 14, 2016

1. The basics of the vantage theme are working. The vocabulary showns on the sidebar. And it shows in the pulldown list for specifying a posts catagory(s)
2. Over all design. A simple header with name, tag soft gradient- no picture. Header contains login/ or logged in indo. Ans search bar.
3. Menu bar – very simple. Main read, write, link, about
4. Backgrounds single colors.
5. Sidebar containing categories always should be showing.
6. Tinkering toward art is lie tinkering toward life. Just a test of the link methodology.
7. Next To Do’s
   1. Make a new logo picture 1020 x 150  with name tag, and a light gradient.
   2. sidebar not showing on front page??
   3. Majkew the links page.
   4. Write descriptions for every category item.
   5. Write an about page, and a how to critique page.
   6. Link to the vantage documentation page.

OK, this is a post with me not logged in. I could still put in a name. Now when I save it I should get a system email saying a post has been made,

And it should not be available for otheers to see. Until I log in and approve3 it.

1. Posts from the dashboard. Choose add post.

a. choose categories from the side bar. This post will display along with other posts with the same category.

b. Write the post.

2. When finished  choose Publish – or one of the other modes.  Actually only the sys admin can publish directly. Other posts go thru an approval status.

2. From the user-submitted-content post. (ie choose write-it in the menu.

a. Fill in the boxes (name, title, category, etc) as appropriate.

(Note: at present the full liost of categories does not show in the drpop down list

b Write the post

c Publish (I need to see what the actual options are.)