[AccessD] Wordpress, Blogs and sidebars

[Arthur Fuller]

I too am wandering down this path and am much mystified as to how it all
works. Plogging along as best i can but it is not easy.

A.

On Oct 27, 2017 1:49 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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,
>
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