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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Slow and can't sign inYou’re welcome!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Slow and can't sign inMagic! Glad you got things straightened out. Mark this as resolved if you would, but post again if needed.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deleting a WP site on your endSorry, but no one here has any access to your site; that’s between you and your web host. See if you can get your web host to help you to reset your urls, or otherwise get you re-started. That will be the safest way if you aren’t comfortable messing with files on the server.
If you do want to try for yourself to change the urls back to what they were before, take a look at this page which has detailed instructions for doing that.
Don’t be put off by how much info that page has. Read the intro paragraphs, and then look specifically at the section I linked you to: Edit functions.php. It’s just a few steps, but be sure to take it step by step.
That page has links about using ftp if that’s new to you. If you still aren’t sure how to access the file, ask your web host to help you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Slow and can't sign inTry disabling your theme in the same manner as you did for plugins, so that WP can use whatever default theme you have installed. Was the theme what you were working on? If not, what changes did you make?
Your site seems to load without errors for me but is quite slow, as you say. Might be worth it to check with your web host to see if there actually are any issues going on with the server recently.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Difficulty placing comments on blogs I visitI have little use for WP.com myself, so I can understand that. But it does serve the purpose of ID verification through using your .com login credentials. I would try clearing browser cookies, logging in to your .com account, and then trying to comment on another blog that has Single Sign On enabled.
If it still doesn’t work, you might try the support forums over at .com, since this is really more in their territory and not (I don’t think?) related to your self-hosted site. Let us know how it goes. Plus, please let me know if I”m wrong about the role of your self-hosted site.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Update to 4.3I’ve seen a few threads regarding this error message lately. The most authoritative answers I’ve seen are saying that it’s likely due to outdated OpenSSL on the server side. Old versions of it are not supported due to multiple security issues. The common culprit lately has been Yahoo hosting, but any host can let things slide too long. You’ll need to contact your host.
Read the last comment by Otto in this (admittedly old) thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-my-wordpress-version?replies=5Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blocked out of account by Parse error: syntax errorSo glad you got this worked out! You’re welcome.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wp_site_icon() won't work in child themeBut if you look at the code closely, you’ll see that all PHP codes run fine UNTIL line 11
Right, line 11, the first time the parser encounters a line of php that isn’t nested as an attribute within an html element. Opening with a doctype of html tells the server to treat it as such, when what you want is for the file to be parsed as php from the start. Have you tried including the tags as I mentioned? And what happened? If you did and it didn’t work, we can keep looking.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Update to 4.3Sure! Let us know how it goes.
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In reply to: Update to 4.3That plugin should not be popping up junk during a core update. Disable it and try the 4.3 update.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: wp_site_icon() won't work in child themeheader.php being a php file, it must start with:
<?php /** * (whatever you need in your header block) * **/ ?>Do you have that in place before the rest of your code shown above?
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In reply to: Update to 4.3Sorry, will what work?
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In reply to: The case of the missing login/admin page…I don’t think ‘not acceptable’ is a standard WP error message. Try disabling plugins to see if a security plugin is interfering. If not, contact your web host and see if they have some security routine that gives this response to your attempt to login.
If you can’t access your admin pages, you’ll need to use an FTP client (like FileZilla), or your host’s cpanel (or File Manager) and navigate to the files on the server.
In your WP installation there, find
wp-content/pluginsand rename that plugin folder to something likeplugins-hold. That will disable all plugins and hopefully allow you to get back into WP admin. Rename the folder back to the original. Then you can start re-activating plugins until you find the problem one(s).Before checking to see if it was fixed, first clear your browser cache and cookies.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Difficulty placing comments on blogs I visitI’m not positive, but I believe that requires that you’re using your wordpress.COM account credentials, and not those of a self-hosted site. Is that what you’re using?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: delete forum profileHere’s the gist of it: http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Deleting_Accounts