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Hi Hannah and Kevin,
Thank you so much! Both methods worked great! I’m not sure which one of the two methods is more efficient, but I’m assuming they’re both okay. I really appreciate it.
I’m also quite taken with how both of you offer so much help over the years, without ever asking anything in return. That’s impressive! Thank you so much for all your generosity and patience! (I’d say this even you were paid to do what you do here)
-Miguel
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Template Off KilterThanks Root. I guess it always helps to have a second pair of eyes!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Though It Shows Up, the RSS Feed not WorkingThanks ifelse for the suggestion, but it definitely wasn’t that. Came up with this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/butuki/public_html/laughing_knees/wp-blog-header.php on line 114
I’ve set it back to the old file. Thanks.
butuki
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Though It Shows Up, the RSS Feed not WorkingI’ve been visiting Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and several other sites just to see who has been visiting (no one). I also use the stats page in the dashboard of the WP administration page. (one person five days ago). For stats I was using the wp-advanced stats plugin but took it out when there seemed to be problems with it. I also used Needstats for the numbers. I have to repost the link button to my index page for it to work again, but since I don’t understand how to get HTML tags into the page yet (not sure which template to edit… I come from Movable Type where I just edited the index.html page… WP seems to be different) it will be a while before I can use that tool again to check stats.
I do realize that after moving to a new host and new software client that seeding the feeds takes time, but it has been two months now so there really should be no problem with that. Besides quite a number of people have been posting comments until a week ago, so something else is going on and I’m not sure what it is. I suspect it might be problems with my web host because of strange happenings like unidentified directories being created without my having done anything (often with “pureftd” files generated inside, to which I have no permissions granted) or even the names of my directories myseteriously changing without my having touched anything in the installation.
I’m just very confused. Don’t even know which questions to ask. I never had these problems while I was with Movable Type.
Wish I could form the right questions, but please bear with me.
butuki
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Though It Shows Up, the RSS Feed not WorkingBTW why do you connect your lack of visitors to a non-working RSS feed?
I just assumed that that is what it might be. I haven’t the slightest idea why the traffic has disappeared. That’s why I’m posting this question. With my average traffic at about 200 visits per day, for it to suddenly drop to zero for five days straight doesn’t make any sense. Many of my readers are regular visitors who have dropped by every day for three years. There is no reason on their end why their visits to my site should suddenly disappear. So it must be something on my end… and I have no idea where I might look for that problem. Could it be that in accessing my site (accessing my server) the connection times out before their RSS readers can respond? I’ve been having a lot of trouble with server speed, so perhaps that is the culprit? Or have I not configured something in my WP set up or over at the server that needs adjusting?
Please give me the benefit of the doubt in replying to my questions. I don’t have the vocabulary in all this technical stuff as many people here do and it does me no good when people get impatient with my uninformed questions. I’m just trying to learn all this stuff like any one else… and WP is very new to me.
I appreciate any advice that people leave here. Thanks again.
butuki
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Though It Shows Up, the RSS Feed not WorkingForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What to Do If .htaccess File is Not Present?Had to laugh… to give you an idea of just how uninformed I am about all this, when I read the word “bork” all I could think of was either the Swedish cook in the Muppets and the singer from Sweden…
I made a copy of the root .htaccess file and moved it to my WP directory…and it works. Simple solution. Thanks!
I disbled my pretty permalinks function after it didn’t work, but will now give it a try again. If it still doesn’t work I will be inhabiting the forum again.
Thanks again jpettit.
cheers,
butukiForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What to Do If .htaccess File is Not Present?Thanks Avenir and Carthik for your advice.
I created the .htaccess file within my WP directory and set permissions first to the recommended 666, and then to 766, and finally to 777, but each time I got this error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@butuki.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Am I setting the permissions wrong? Does WordPress have to update the file first somehow? If so, is there something I must do within WordPress to trigger the update? I’m worried about leaving my file wide open with permissions set to 777. Is it necessary?
So far I’ve followed all of the recommendations from both of you and from the various posts here in the forum, but nothing seems to work.
eager for any further recommendations!
cheers!
butuki