James Kirk
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Hey ameliafranz,
If it were up to me, I’d wait till you have your permalinks in place (though, it is baffling why it would take someone who is “hosting” your site so long to “figure this out” 🙁 )
Now days Google is amazingly fast at indexing the pages of a website. Once they do, you’ll be in their db with your pages listed as (for example):
http://www.epiphanybaltimore.org/?page_id=687
versus what this pages “pretty permalink” would likely be:
http://www.epiphanybaltimore.org/about-us/
If you get those first links indexed you are going to have to go into your Google Webmaster Tools account and tell the search engine what each of those “ugly” links should actually be pointing to (the pretty link).
The good news is that you won’t have a bunch of 404 errors since WordPress will still show the page to a site visitor, however, you don’t want those links propagating out there when you do have your permalinks in place.
You might ask your hosting person what his challenges are and then post back here so we can help you help him get it going for you!
Hope that helps!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink problemHey Snowyn,
Sounds pretty frustrating. Are you able to post some links to your site so we can check things out there?
Thanks!
Hmmm, real conundrum. Activated the default theme, and deactivate all plugins minus one of the Pinterest plugins. Same action.
So, clearly, Buttercream is in the clear. Yay for Buttercream! Boo for the pinterest plugins.
Must be one of the WPMS network-wide plugins. But that’s for tomorrow. 🙁
I’ll mark this as resolved since it cannot be your theme causing the challenge.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply much appreciated!
So much to do, sir. So little time! 😉
I’d prefer to give the plugin author a chance to make something sustainable first. However, not sure how active they are with upkeep at this point. Will certainly post back here anything I come up with as I get to that point!
Cheers! :)I’m with kirkward on this request! Would be great, as the network admin, to be able to create a feed of posts that are only delivered to the sub sites on the network. This would make internal network communications focused without necessarily having the main site’s posts showing up in the dashboards of the sub sites.
If we don’t hear from the plugin author, I’ll try to take a look at the code later this week to see if I can manipulate it to do our bidding.
Cheers! :)To update my previous:
On a brand new MS install yesterday, I installed the very latest WP SEO plugin specifically to look for the challenge of not being able to get to new subdomain installs. Seems to be working as expected. I’ll be adding a few more sites to that network today and will report back here if anything changes with the expected operations of Yoast’s plugin.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Facebook "like" widget not showing up / breaking siteThe only thing I can think to add, rick4him, is to ask if you’ve tried to use the “Manual Placement” options in the Digg Digg plugin? You may have a challenge placing the php code in the footer if you’re currently using a widget, but you could try the PHP Code Widget and then insert the Digg Digg Manual Placement php code.
Worth a shot to see if that’s where you are getting your conflict!
Let us know how it goes!
Cheers! :)Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove Home Tab from HeaderHey cgonzo,
Sorry, my bad language there.
You want to REPLACE the current line 31 with the one above. Essentially you are “commenting out” that line. In HTML, you comment a line (meaning it no longer is active on the display page so it won’t be seen!) by adding the left bracket, an exclamation mark, and two dashes and a space in front of the code. Like this:
<!--Then after the code (the end of line 31) you add a space, two dashes and a right bracket. Like this:
-->Oh, and under Appearances is the Editor option. You’ll go there, choose “header.php” on the right side. That is where you’ll edit the line 31 as above.
Hope that gets you there!
Cheers! :)Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Editing information when sharing link on facebook.Hey MJdudie,
I’m pretty sure this is a Facebook issue, not a WordPress issue. I could be wrong, as I am unable to reproduce what you’ve described in your last message.
When I post just a link to one of my WordPress Sites on Facebook, it only shows that exact link, not the other stuff you’ve indicated.
Sorry 🙁
Cheers! :)Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How Do I Set Floating Image For All PostsHey mrbigshotimnot,
On the post edit page when you added the images, are you choosing “Alignment: Right” option towards the bottom of the “Add Media” box?
On the images already inserted in the posts, if, when using “Visual” mode (not the “HTML” tab) all you need to do is click on the image and then click on the little “Edit Image” button that pops up over the image.
From there, the “Edit Image” box pops open and the “Alignment” option is the first choice under the image and sample text. Choose right, and then click the button at the bottom “Update”. Don’t forget to click the blue “Update” button in the “Publish” meta box to see the changes on the page.
Hope that helps!
Cheers! :)Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How can I get rid of the left sidebar?Hey ezra2012,
Bad news, I’m afraid. The theme developer kind of locked you into the 3 column layout with this Spapress theme. There is a template for a “Page without sidebar” however, they failed to remove the content-top.png and content-bottom.png so not only do you get ZERO sidebars, you also get the top and bottom of that three-column background image.
This is probably fixable by the original theme developer, so maybe give them a shout out?
Cheers! :)Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Word Press SEO – how to fix an errorHey suzyam,
The possible solution at this link might be more “developer/programmer” oriented than you are wanting, but it’s about the only thing I’ve come across relating to the error message you’re getting.
Also, which version of WordPress SEO are you using? The latest? I ask because the author of that solution indicated that the solution was integrated into the plugin as of version 1.1.7.
Cheers! :)Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Subdomain or page?Hey Mr. Butler,
Sounds like you are going to want to mask the URL of that second, lead capture page. Because as soon as the visitor clicks your link on the first, one-page WordPress page, they are going to “see” the URL of the one you don’t want them getting to directly.
Of course you can add that second page (it really doesn’t matter where it is located, subdomain, subdirectory, etc.) to the same install as the one-page. Thing is you’re going to have to cloak that link in order for the user not to see it.
I use Pretty Link (the light version), but their Pro version has link cloaking built in, which might be just what you need. Or you could check out your domain registrar’s DNS offering to see if it provides you with link cloaking capabilities.
Hope this helps get you what you want!
Cheers! :)Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove Home Tab from HeaderHey cgonzo,
Unfortunately for you, the developer of that theme has hard coded the “Home” link to always show first. I downloaded the theme and installed it on a test site of mine to see if simply creating a menu and not using the “Home” link would work for you. But, alas, no.
Your only real option is to simply comment out the code which displays the “Home” link. If you are comfortable doing that, simply comment out line 31 in the “header.php” file in that theme. You can do this either via the WordPress admin backend under the “Appearances” tab or via FTP and uploading the header.php file back to your theme directory with the other pujugama files.
Line 31, after commenting should look like this:
<!-- <a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" class="pjgm-home" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php echo __( 'Home', 'pujugama' ); ?></a> -->Hope this helps!
Cheers! :)Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Facebook "like" widget not showing up / breaking siteHey rick4him,
Just curious how you are determining the challenge is associated with the FB widget in the footer? I’ve reloaded your page at least a dozen times an not once have I seen the footer FB widget seem to be the cause of the slow load. Instead, it appears to me to be one (or more) of the ads and sidebar widgets.
Is it safe to assume when you remove the footer FB widget you are not getting a challenge with load times? If so, I’m apt to agree with your initial assessment that it is conflicting with one of the other plugin options. Did you set your Digg Digg plugin to load via the “lazy load” method? I’ve found that helps a bit with load times (but I don’t have 3 Facebook widgets trying to load either :|)
Cheers! :)