[AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi John:

I think you have taken the right course to create a good web presence as most of the world's most common CMS. It is so popular that all the other similar programs, collectively have less users than WP.

Which theme did you decide to buy?

I have worked with WP for a time but am hardly an expert...Bryan may be a good resource. I do have two excellent partners though, Mr and Mrs Google and Github is your friend.

It sounds like you have some very exciting projects planned. You must keep us all posted.

Aside: As WP is the most popular application of its type, its attack vector is huge. There are some very good articles on security, use them and as one fellow said, "Remember, always PYS". There are thousands of great plugs but there are hundreds of badly designed inserts so "caution" is the word of the day. (My wife has a WP website and it took six months to rid ourselves of one persistent script-kiddie and it all came down to one bad plugin.)  

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 5:20:32 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars

So guys, I am trying to bring my web site back.  I decided to use Word 
Press.  Too late to argue, it's paid for.  Now I need help of course.

I got it installed, and I am writing two blogs (more in the future).  
When I say "two blogs", I mean blogs on two different subjects, one is 
moving my blog from BlogSpot for Access classes. The other is moving the 
tale of Sweet Allie Bluebeard, i.e. my sailing adventure when I bought 
my boat.

I am able to write blog entries however they just appear as a long list 
of blog titles, which can be clicked on to read the specific blog entry 
or  article.  What I want is a tree structure which allows me to have a 
sidebar (or something) which holds a tree kinda thing and the branches 
are hot links to the individual pages.  Seems like something every 
blogger would wish for.

Well maybe but I am not discovering how to just do it in WP.  So if 
there are any WP gurus (NOT Word Perfect!;) that would like to hold my 
hand through getting this set up, please contact me off line.

Thanks,

-- 
John W. Colby

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