Anyone know wordpress?

[swee'pea99]

Posted this in geekschat, but thought I'd cover the bases by re-posting here, where (sorry Shaun) there sems to be a bit more traffic...

I'm trying to help my sister in law out with her wordpress-built site, and the formatting's driving me nuts. I thought I'd be able to just set up a table and put the pics on the left and the text on the right and that would be that (it's a very simple site), but there doesn't seem to be any table facility, and all my attempts to line things/align things are going tits up.

Can anyone tell me the secret (in reasonably non-techy talk if poss), or point me in the right direction for some idiot-proof 'how to' guides? Many thanks.

 

[ianjmcd]

http://www.techbuzz.in/how-to-insert-tables-into-wordpress-posts-pages.php

 

[swee'pea99]

Fantastic! That looks like a sanity-saver. Many thanks.

 

[ianjmcd]

its quite easy if you have a little HTML knowledge ;-)

 

[swee'pea99]

Yeah, but there's little and then there's little...

 

[ianjmcd]

glad i was able to help this is one of the sites i help run based on wordpress www.paisley.org.uk

 

[swee'pea99]

Very nice!

 

[swee'pea99]

Nah...'snot working for me. Even with the simplest table, I can't get it to work properly. Words wrap at random points for no apparent reason, squeezing images smaller and smaller, word cells fall below rather than sitting alongside image cells...what's going on? Waaaah!

I just want the image and the text, in equal sized cells, side by side. Is that so much to ask? *sob*

 

[goo_mason]

Have you tried removing the closing </td> tags? And are you intending to scroll the table independently of the table head & foot (which I don't see <thead> and <tfoot> tags for)? If not, removed the <tbody> tag.

(Don't know if that'll help - haven't used HTML in years and years and can barely remember it!)

 

[swee'pea99]

Dun all that

& it makes


....no difference. Waaah! (But thanks for trying.)

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Try this...once you have confirmed it works you can adjust the values.

<table align="center" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="http://marionmusic.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/nay-piano-075.jpg width="700" height="153" border=5">
</td>
</tr>
</table>

 

[swee'pea99]

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't. It's the weirdest thing. You put that in, and check the page, and nothing's changed. Then you click the blue 'Update' button, and the html changes.

<table align="center" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="http://marionmusic.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/nay-piano-075.jpg width="700" height="153" border=5">
</td>
</tr>
</table>

suddenly turns into

<table align="center" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<img>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

I've never seen anything like it. I'm giving up for now - it's just doing my head in. But thanks for all suggestions. Much appreciated. I think I'm going to kill my sister in law. It's the easy option.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

http://www.bestbitsandbobs.co.uk/2011/06/03/how-to-add-space-around-images-in-wordpress/

That might help.....

Btw I hate wp.. lol

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Why not just load the Tablepress plugin?

 

[swee'pea99]

Why not just load the Tablepress plugin?

Unfortunately I have just discovered (after another 20 mins of my life gone forever) that plugins are not allowed on any wordpress.com site. wordpress.org, fine; wordpress.com, no. Don't ask me why. Guess which one my SIL has used...

I've been using my usual html prog (Expressions) to create simple tables, with some success:

...But when I copy 'n paste that exact html code into the Wordpress page, it comes out totally different.

As you can see, the text appears, but below, not in line; also the text wraps, but only after it's occupied something like 80% of the available width, which it achieves by squeezing the images steadily smaller and smaller, til they're like postage stamps - this despite the fact that the image sizes are in theory set in the html: nay-piano-075.jpg?w=676" width="371" height="246" />

Don't s'pose anyone knows where I can get a gun...?

*sob*