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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Delete Image does not delete image size variationsNope.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to move navigation bar below header image on Twenty Twelve themeFTP is the protocol you use to interact with files on your server, usually with a client like FileZilla. CSS is how you control the look of everything on your site.
Consider working through some tutorials:
If all of this is too complicated, you might look at hiring someone to help you via http://jobs.wordpress.net
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Is there a way to display only first few lines of a post?You can manually add a Read More break from the visual editor, which allows you to control exactly what you want to show for your excerpt.
Or, you can modify your theme directly (recommend using a child theme) to use the excerpt function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt
There are also lots of other solutions posted throughout these forums, if you search for “excerpt.”
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Trouble uploading headerDid you check to make sure that your theme’s folder includes a file named style.css?
And how are you uploading this header?
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In reply to: Upgrade to 3.5.1 has crashed the siteReplace ALL WordPress files on the server except for wp-content. Your settings and posts, etc, are saved in your database, not in the WordPress files.
See here for how to do a manual upgrade: http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update
Edit to add: use a FRESH download for replacing the files.
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In reply to: Delete Image does not delete image size variationsThat is standard behavior as far as I have seen, yes. You can delete the others in batches via FTP.
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In reply to: Text widget modifys my html, and prevents SSL Seal from displayingAlways use back ticks for your code!
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In reply to: Add Media button not workingYou really need to check the theme, dude. Switch to twenty twelve, see if you get the same behavior, and then you can switch back. All of your settings will be kept intact in your database, and that goes for plugins, too. If it is an issue with the theme, you’ll know, and you can contact the developer. If it’s not, then you’ll have ruled that out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink option not showing in "New Post"Ok, just making sure. Try the basic troubleshooting steps for WordPress and see if you come up with anything. If you have any sort of plugin that deals with permalinks, that’s probably the first place to check.
Basic Troubleshooting:
- flush any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches.
- deactivate all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
- If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin (read http://bit.ly/UhpkLl if you need help).
- switch to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
- If you can’t log in to change themes, you can remove the theme folders via FTP so the only one is twentyeleven. That will force your site to use it.
- manual upgrade. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.zip file of 3.5 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server. Read the Manual Update directions first: http://bit.ly/RbU5qG
- check the Master List to see if you’re experiencing a known issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add Media button not workingGoing to the default theme is a standard troubleshooting step to see if there is something in your theme impeding the new version of WordPress that you just installed. It doesn’t mean you have to stay with the default theme, but if you want to fix things, this is a necessary step.
Basic troubleshooting, for your reference, involves ALL of these steps:
- flush any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches.
- deactivate all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
- If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin (read http://bit.ly/UhpkLl if you need help).
- switch to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
- If you can’t log in to change themes, you can remove the theme folders via FTP so the only one is twentyeleven. That will force your site to use it.
- manual upgrade. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.zip file of 3.5.1 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server. Read the Manual Update directions first: http://bit.ly/RbU5qG
- check the Master List to see if you’re experiencing a known issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink option not showing in "New Post"The way it is supposed to work is that you type a title for your post, then go to the editing box and type in your text. Once there is text in the title box and you have tabbed or clicked out of it, the permalink edit option should show up.
How are you creating your posts? And how is the behavior of the editing pane different from what I’ve described?
Edit to add: the “get shortlink” and “view post” items don’t appear until after the post is published, but the “edit” button should appear as soon as you click out of the title field, assuming you entered text into it.
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In reply to: Recent Post Font SizeThat CSS is generated by your TW Recent Posts widget. Look through the settings in your Dashboard for that widget to see if there is anywhere to add custom CSS or adjust the size of things.
If that doesn’t help you sort things, then look for answers in that plugin’s support forum:
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tw-recent-posts-widget
For your sidebar, look in your theme’s CSS file at about line 1146.
And look into developer tools for your browser – they make all of this much easier! Here’s a good article about tools for Chrome:
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In reply to: How do I display tags in 2 columns?You could also just use CSS and style an unordered list to display in two columns.
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In reply to: partial admin rights (author)Excellent – please mark this thread as resolved!
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In reply to: Help How can I switch off comments on old posts?Yay! Please mark this thread as resolved. 🙂