Wordpress is amazing! Plugins?

[DJ]

Can someone tell me how Wordpress works please? I'm trying it for the first time and I have to say that so far I think it's shit.
Now I want to make a little blog type thing of my radio musical escapades, sort of like a story of me getting famous from these humble beginnings, putting my shows online etc.

So I've a wordpress theme which I'm in the process of skinning the hell out of at http://www.djadam.co.uk
I've made two posts. Why aren't they in the blog? If you click my name you can see the two posts but that's a bit pointless; go to the blog page and it's empty. Can someone tell me which box I've not ticked please?

[Savara]

You've probably not put the posts under the category "blog", or you might've posted them as pages instead of posts.

[DJ]

I have 3 pages: Home, Blog, Contact.
I have 2 categories: Home, Blog (dunno if that's right or not)

If I go to edit my post, I have the box ticked in the categories panel for Blog. The Blog category is registering that there are 2 posts in it. I just can't see them until I click on my author name.
They are definitely posts and not pages.

[DCUK7]

Is the theme you are using totally custom? If you don't include the right PHP bits in it you end up with missing content. It may also be a case of the PHP part for the posts is set to only display certain categories.

I don't have access to my themes from work but I'll post the common bits of code I use when making a theme later.

Might be worth re-thinking the categories though. On mine I have categories such as Tech, Sport, Food, Gaming, etc as its easier to search post content using categories.

[DJ]

I think this is where I'm stumbling.
It's a theme I've downloaded, and so far not done much at all apart from follow the instructions for setting up the pages. It works out-of-the-box so I shouldn't need to do any coding of any kind, much like a regular theme. But I have the same problem with all themes I've tried.
I'll relook at the category names, it makes sense what you're saying there; I knew I'd not understood that right when I was doing them.

So I just need to get my new posts sitting in the Blog page. I take it the home page has stuff about me on it and has the latest blog post or something?
One of my posts is here:
http://www.djadam.co.uk/index.php/2010/ ... t-working/
I can view it from the admin panel.

I'm half tempted to delete everything and start again but I just know it's a simple thing, I just can't find it!

[DJ]

Actually the way you have yours Chris is how I want mine: Front page the blog posts, an about page, and a contact page.

[DCUK7]

PM'd.

[DJ]

Wordpress is a little less gay after poking around on your admin panel.

Sorted now, time to start making me a blog!
Thanks for the help everyone.

[DJ]

Totally loving WordPress!

What other cool plugins do I need in my life for it?

[Screamo]

DJ, which theme did you use as a base before you started playing with it?

[DJ]

On djadam.co.uk is Bluebubble.
I've not had to do much to it but in it's current incarnation but it did need tweaks.