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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moved content to root directory: now it's a nightmare.Oops, I forgot to give you the link:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_DirectoryMore in a minute.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moved content to root directory: now it's a nightmare.Hopefully, you took a backup before you started all this. Otherwise, it could be quite difficult to get things back working again.
Most web hosts automatically do backups for your every night.
In my opinion, the best way to accomplish what you want is not to move the files at all, just make it appear as if they have been moved. Why? Because it is confusing to have that much clutter (WordPress files) in the root directory.
Read the section “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” in this Codex page for the way I’ve used countless times over the last seven years to create a neat clean setup for WordPress with the URL merely the domain name.
Hopefully, this is what you are “really” looking for in terms of a solution. If not, please let me know.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: edit problemThe WP Super Cache plugin is generating the error. Disable it and work with their support to resolve it: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-super-cache
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Switching my domain nameBeen there, done that.
My personal method is to buy the new domain, initially add it to my current web hosting as a Parked Domain, change the domain name in WordPress (see info below) and work with my web hosting company to make the new domain the main domain and the old domain the Parked Domain.
If you don’t plan to keep the old domain forever, you will, at some point, want to notify people who use the old domain that it has been changed and that they should change their bookmarks, then let the old domain expire after 6-12 months.
The only piece missing is to be sure any sites that link to you have also updated their URL to link to you.
I would recommend reading the relevant sections of both of these:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPressThe key part of all that is to be sure that “hard coded” URLs on your site get changed, which generally involves Search and Replace operations on the WordPress Database.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Change theme on different addressI should also mention that I have a similar situation to yours, in that I wanted to divide a new web site I’m building into several “sections”, each section with its own subdomain. I took a completely different implementation approach, however, with the same goal of having a different Theme for each section.
Home page is example.com, section 1 is a.example.com and section 2 is b.example.com, where “a” and “b” are the section names.
I used a WordPress Network (“Multisite”) with example.com as Site 1, a.example.com as Site 2, and b.example.com as Site 3.
I did not use my plugin for this.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Change theme on different addressI do have a clumsy solution that only works for two subdomains:
- WordPress Admin Appearance-Themes – set whatever Theme you want for the subdomain that is NOT the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings
- my plugin Advanced Settings tab – Theme for Everything – set whatever Theme you want for the subdomain that IS the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings
The above solution ONLY works if the subdomain that is NOT the WordPress Site Address (URL) defined in General Settings IS NOT defined as a Site Alias to my plugin.
I did some testing and verified that the plugin does not currently allow a more obvious solution to your problem. I am willing to add such functionality to a future version, if you wish.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Change theme on different addressInteresting, as I never thought of that possibility. I just implemented the opposite: allow the plugin to deal with Site Aliases, which is what I call what you have.
The confusion I ran into is that it depends how you set up the Site Aliases to work. In particular, whether each Site Alias remains in the Address Bar of your browser or is changed to the WordPress Site URL.
Let me do a little testing before I give you a final answer on whether it is possible now, and whether it could be added as a new feature.
Thanks for asking.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Second Theme doesnt use Home themeI am very glad to hear that you have found a satisfactory solution to your problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Second Theme doesnt use Home themeTo ensure we are both talking about the same thing, the most obvious difference that I see between the two ways the Page is displayed is the Calendar (current month).
To get the Calendar to appear on a Page other than Home, I did the following:
- WordPress Admin Appearance-Themes Activate the Business Theme
- my plugin’s Settings, Advanced Settings tab, set the Theme for Everything to ASK Me
- my plugin’s Settings, Settings tab, “For An Individual Page, Post or other non-Admin page; or a group of pages, specified by URL Prefix, optionally with Asterisk(s)” Section, enter http://www.example.com/landing as the URL, Business as the Theme, and select URL (not Prefix or Asterisk) in the radio buttons.
Please let me know if I misunderstood you.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Second Theme doesnt use Home themeSince that is different that what I was testing yesterday, I will do more testing and respond soon.
Thank you for your patience. Your last post arrived after I had gone to sleep last night.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Plugin is Not Working for URL PrefixCaching is the most likely answer. To rule out an issue with the way that you have set the URL Prefix, I would need to know what the URL looks like that appears in the Setting, and the URL of where it is not working.
As for Caching, this can be an issue with another plugin you are using that provides Caching. Or it can be an issue with your Internet Browser caching. In either case, what has happened is that the plugin or browser has saved a copy of the content before you added the URL Prefix setting, and is delivering it to you whenever you enter that particular URL.
In both cases, the solution is the same: flush the relevant Cache.
Please let me know if we need to explore this situation further.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Second Theme doesnt use Home themeI was able to re-create your problem. And come up with a solution.
- WordPress Admin Appearance-Themes Activate the Business Theme
- my plugin’s Settings, Advanced Settings tab, set the Theme for Everything to ASK Me
- you will still need the Home setting to the Business theme as you had before
Not sure why that method is required. Let me know if it works, as I was only able to test Business with Twenty Fourteen.
Thanks for your patience on this one. I do hope that this solves your problem.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Multiple Themes] Second Theme doesnt use Home themeThanks for the clarification! That helps a lot.
I can now do some testing, and get back to you as soon as I know something useful.
Great to hear! Sorry that I didn’t see this earlier, but, again, no notification.
Sorry, I didn’t get an automatic e-mail when this appeared, so I am just seeing it now.
Every other person who has reported this particular problem, i.e. – this particular combination of circumstances where some browsers work and some don’t, has discovered that it was a browser caching problem. As soon as they flushed the browser’s cache or went on to another computer that had not “seen” the page before, everything worked properly.
Please let me know if this resolves the problem.