DianeV
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Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Finally on WordPressIt looks terrific. Did you notice that you’re links are incorrect? I’m going to guess it’s a permalinks issue, and that you need an .htaccess file.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress doesn’t loadI get a page that says, “this is a placeholder for the subdomain blog.brickandbutter.com”.
Are you able to log into your Dashboard? Have you tried changing themes?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sudden website language changeIt looks like Spanish to me. Did you fix it?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Uploaded files all gone!Hi. It’s hard to guess what happened without a link to your site — could you post a link?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .htaccess and PW protected directoryExactly. Did you read the article at the link I posted?
Many of us have had this problem, and I posted the ultimate solution (at least, in my opinion).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: server is temporarily unable?!I think Tank71 is suggesting that *you* contact your web host directly.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: .htaccess and PW protected directoryI don’t know what you’re password protecting, but maybe this will help:
WordPress admin password protection 404Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Trojan Virus on my site!? PLEASE HELP!Given ClaytonJames’ experience above, I’d suggest FTPing into your server and check for any new files. Something’s going on.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Trojan Virus on my site!? PLEASE HELP!Here’s something from the DSLReports.com forums:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15452441Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: mark-up added by wordpress?What are you editing it with? Are you hand-coding fonts there?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress already installed; must provide email address> I then went to the admin folder on my harddrive and opened install.php with Firefox and got the following the first time I ran it on a new database.
I don’t understand this. You’re supposed to access the install.php on your site, not your computer hard drive. ??
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Garbage help me> my host that i am using is modwest, so i used that host name
You need to upload it to *your* web hosting account, and then use *your* domain name, not your host’s.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Please give me tips on my website’s theme, please!Regarding the vivid background color, about 10 years ago someone made this comment to me:
“You don’t need to knock their eyes out with color in order to get their attention.”
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need help with URL and search engine ranking> Could it be this missing “www” that is causing this issue?
Yes.
The problem here is that you changed the URLs to your pages (which means *all* the pages, not just the home page), so search engines generally will interpret that as “old pages gone and all new pages”:
These URLs:
=> http://site.com
=> http://site.com/page.html
are not the same as these URLs:
=> http://www.site.com
=> http://www.site.com/page.htmlAs well, it’s best to ensure that your pages are accessible either with the “www” or without — but not both. That said, most search engines will figure it out eventually (but who wants to wait for something “eventually”?).
> Ever since I remade my site
When was that, exactly?
If this was my site, I’d choose whether I want the “www” or not, and then redirect the one I didn’t (that is, non-www to www, or vice-versa). Although I have a picky dislike for the “www” as it’s entirely unnecessary, in this case — where search engines had picked up the www version and people may have bookmarked or linked to it as well — I’d opt for that.
Lastly, actually, you don’t need to give Google a sitemap (that is, a Google site map). I’ve been building sites for 10 years and haven’t needed to do anything with search-engine-specific site maps. Generally speaking, if you need to feed URLs to a search engine nowadays, something is wrong. Or you have a very, very very very large site. In this case, a Google site map would not fix the existing problem; it might speed up picking up the “new” pages, but that’s all.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Word press error:Database problemLooks fine to me.
Future tip: if the blog was working, and then (without having done anything new) you get that same error message, it means there’s something going on with your web hosting account. Contact your web host.