Wordpress demo site

[mattyh]

I mentioned in another thread about setting up a Wordpress demo site, with a couple of well used plugins, a couple of themes and various pages/comments and the like, so anyone that wanted could have a play with it and get a feel for it before they went to any trouble installing/configuring it...

I've set the site up on one of my domains that I've never done anything on;

http://www.ukjobseeking.co.uk

PM for username & password - It's on my server so I have to consider security, even though it's secured from the rest of the server, I don't intend on giving the password to everyone that might be passing

The theme is called Rockwell, dedicated to uncle Ken, of course

Happy to install other themes on request, and plugins too - obviously when I've got 2 mins to upload them, don't expect an instant response all the time

Oh, and one more thing, the whole site is no-index, so there's no point dropping any links in any of your pages/posts that you create

 

[ding76uk]

I like the read more details on the posts. My blog has the whole posts. Is there an easy way to change it to make it similar to this theme?

Also is the search a plugin or part of the theme? Maybe a list of plugins used would be a great help when you have 5 mins.

Cheers for setting it up Matt!

 

[mattyh]

Hi Carl,

You can add the <!--more--> tag to your posts, which should create a read more option, if the theme is set up correctly.

The plugins currently installed are;

All in One SEO Pack - SEO, obviously
Formidable (Forms and stuff)
NextGEN Gallery (not currently being used, am going to add a gallery shortly)
flickrRSS - Again not being used as I don't have a flickr account

The Search Form is a Wordpress function, which tbh I usually disable, but the code they've used is;

        <!-- begin search box -->
            <form id="searchform" action="" method="get">
                <input id="s" type="text" name="s" value=""/>
                <input id="searchsubmit" type="submit" value=""/>
            </form>
        <!-- end search box -->

Wherever you want the searchbox... You can either customise the search box by creating a searchform.php in your theme template, or if you don't, it'll use the default search engine built into Wordpress

 

[ding76uk]

Cheers Matt, will try that. I struggle with the wordpress coding (and html in general!) Threads like this are great, as again I didn't know about All in one SEO or Formidable until I saw them here, and they are now installed on my site.

Timing is perfect as i am doing a few little updates at the moment.

 

[mattchewone]

I cant get on to the website just doesnt load up.

 

[mattyh]

Working fine here? Possibly a glitch last night i guess

 

[david1701]

mattyH you are legend