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Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Login page timing out, can't log inesmi, you nailed it! I just got word back from the host — they had been under a bing bot attack and had to shut down WP admin access. They’ve fixed it and I can access my sites now. WHEW!!!! Thanks everyone!
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Login page timing out, can't log inIt’s bluewho.com — I’ve been with them for years and years and never had any trouble, and I’ve been hosting my WordPress sites there for several years, too. But last night I checked and all if my sites are doing the same thing. They’re all up and running *except* that the login page times out. I put in a support ticket but if you have any suggestions on what to tell them or what it might be id be very grateful. This is a disaster!!
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Login page timing out, can't log inPatrick, no, it’s a complete mystery! There’s no entries in the last five days from the error log, and I only have been trying to login today and yesterday. I don’t understand — I haven’t changed anything, and all the other files work — commenting, serving posts, everything except the login. I will submit a support ticket to my host, but why would that one .php file time out when all the other files work fine?
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In reply to: Login page timing out, can't log inPatrick — thank you for the suggestion — I had already tried that before I posted. I also tried renaming the theme and several other things, too. Unfortunately none of it helped. Do you have any other suggestions? I’m really stumped!!!
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In reply to: Switching Back to non-MultiSite?Thank you, Mika! And thanks for taking the time to reassure me. I really do appreciate it. 🙂 ~Angela~
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In reply to: Switching Back to non-MultiSite?Thank you, Mika! I had found that tutorial online, but since it was from 2010, I wasn’t sure it was still viable with the current version of WordPress/MultiSite vs MU? (I know that the new MultiSite is different than MU, but not in what way.) Any thoughts on this? ~Angela~
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In reply to: Can I have something besides 404 at /blog/ ?Oooooooooh, I’m embarrassed now! Sorry!!!
Thanks for all the info, Mika! I really appreciate it!!
~Angela~
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In reply to: Can I have something besides 404 at /blog/ ?Thanks, Mike! Sorry about that — I could be vaguer! 🙂
I have a DIY blog, and I am using multisite to add subfolders of articles and information. So, my personal story is at the root of the multisite (with posts now at /blog/ per the standard multisite install). And I have set up subfolders for the article sections under /gardening/ /decorating/ etc. etc.. I debated and finally decided on that for a variety of reasons.
Anyway. So the site root (cottagemagpie.com) currently looks like a blog and shows the index of the blog posts that are at the root site — just what you’d expect from a vanilla multisite install.
What I want is to have a blog “home” page (originally I had wanted it to be at /blog/ that looks like a blog and has the blog posts in it. Then the root of the site will have featured items from the blog and also the article sections, all fancy like.
Two last questions about the .htaccess you gave me (thank you again!!):
1. Will the URL people see still show /blog/ even though they’re actually looking at /postpage/ in real life? Or will it redirect them over so they’ll see /postpage/ in their URL (sorry, I told you my .htaccess skills were limited).
2. This won’t have any effect on the existing posts that are already showing at /blog/ right? (I’m assuming not, but I thought I should check.)
So, if there’s a better way to set it up now that I’ve shared more, LMK.
Thank you AGAIN! 🙂
~Angela~
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In reply to: Can I have something besides 404 at /blog/ ?So I can’t create a page at /blog/ either? That would work too — just so there is **something** there. It just seems instinctive to me that if allmy root level posts are at /blog/* that there should also be a page/index/something at /blog/ as well YKWIM?
I know I can move the whole whack to a new multisite — (not /blog/ but something else /journal/ or /whatsnew/ or whatever) — and use a plugin to put links things at the root page (mydomain.com/), but I was hoping for something simpler, since it just works this way. other than the no index thing.
So are you suggesting that I make a page like I want, but at a permissable spot (/bloghome/ or whatever) and then use .htaccess to make it seem like that page is at /blog/? Sadly, my skills aren’t up to that task. I’m a hack at best with the .htaccess — I only know how to do straight redirects.
Or did you mean something else?
~A
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In reply to: Network Menu Missing WordPress "Own Directory"OH, thankyouthankyouthankyou! It worked! Woo hoo!
~Angela~
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In reply to: Network Menu Missing WordPress "Own Directory"FYI, I don’t know if this matters, but I am working from a WP that was upgraded to 3.5.1, but I upgraded *before* activating the Multisite option.
(I forced the subdirectory option, I know there are no posts with names that will conflict — I double-checked before I did it).
I would be willing to start from a completely fresh install except that I have several hundred posts and thousands of comments and I’m a little concerned about how to do that effectively. Setting up on a different domain and then moving seemed daunting, and exporting everything, rebuilding and reimporting seemed a little nailbiting also….
~A
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In reply to: Network Menu Missing WordPress "Own Directory"Thanks — so I tried just subbing out the $2 for the wordpress/$1 (my wordpress install is in /wordpress/ also), and that just gave me 404 errors. So I decided to just try your .htaccess wholesale, and that worked… kinda.
So I can use the Network Admin screens just fine. The URL’s are still wrong (weird), but they work — I can add sites, etc..
BUT, when I try to visit the Dashboard for the subsides, they give me a redirecting error. My main site still works, it goes to /wordpress/wp-admin/ as usual. But all the network sites are not working.
For example, I have a network site in /gardening/ and the URL that shows in the browser is /gardening/wp-admin/ – and Firefox tells me: “The page isn’t redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.”
More ideas??
I really appreciate your help. I haven’t written a RE since the early ’90s.
~Angela~
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In reply to: To MU or not MU, that is the question.OK, good, that helps! At least I know it’s possible, so I can go ahead and move forward.
I’m a beginner with WP, but I’m not a beginner in general, so I can probably muddle my way through part of it then get some $$ help from some Sooper Genius WP types when I get stuck.
THANKS!
~Angela 🙂
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In reply to: To MU or not MU, that is the question.Oh, and I have another question. (Again using Pioneer Woman as an example). So, in a section (really a blog), there are categories (that show on that 2nd menu bar). On her site, if you click one of the categories, you get all of the posts in that category (including all of the posts in all the subcategories).
What if, instead of getting all the posts, you wanted to show the subcategories (if applicable) there (with pictures, descriptions, and a link to that subcategory, etc.) at the top of the page? Then maybe you had the list of posts at under that. Would that be doable? Could you continue to have that work as you drilled down into subcategory levels until there weren’t any subcategories?
I mean, I know you can do anything you want if you have the time and coding chops, I’m saying, would it be fairly straightforward…
THANKS! I do think that’s all my questions now.
~A
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: To MU or not MU, that is the question.OH yes, that’s a great idea!!! See, this is why I need y’all, because I’m so new to WP I don’t think like a WP person yet! I’ll get there.
Speaking of Pioneer Woman, She has this cool feature on her site where once you’re in a section you can choose to see straight excerpts or two columns of smaller excerpts or three columns of just thumbnails. Do you happen to know how that was done? I mean, in general?
Also, I need to look at that plugin, too (the sitewide tags one), but is that the plugin that also takes care of having a site-wide search feature and a full-site RSS feed?
~Angela 🙂
P.S. I am probably totally breaking the rules here of asking unrelated questions in my follow ups, oops! (I’m used to the StudioPress forums!)