Jess

I HAVE read many instructional articles on this, but the instructions don’t work for me, or they just say “use the Twitter widget”…and I don’t HAVE a twitter widget.

So… maybe you should install one! Take a look at all of the plugins that are available for Twitter integration:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Twitter

Try looking in the plugins directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Redirect

Have to tried the steps listed here? http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

There are instructions on that page for how to do this without having access to your site’s admin interface.

It’s amazing what can be theme or plugin related, even on the backend, so that’s why testing with the default theme is always step 1 or 2 (the other being to turn off all plugins).

But anyway.

This is seriously weird behavior. Does anything show up in your server logs?

If nothing is there, the next place I would look is at the database. If you have a backup, try restoring from the backup to see if that does anything.

Beyond that… you’re going to need help from a more technical expert than me.

Got your url via email, thank you.

Ok, so if you want to change all of the body fonts, look at line 130 of styles.css:

body {
margin: 0;
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
line-height: 19px;
color: gray;
background-color: #fafafa;
}

For the entry-text and comment headings, look at line 2498

.entry-text h1, .entry-text h2, .entry-text h3, .entry-text h4, .entry-text h5, .entry-text h6,
.comment-content h1, .comment-content h2, .comment-content h3, .comment-content h4, .comment-content h5, .comment-content h6
 {
  margin: 15px 0 15px;
  font-family: "Fjalla One", sans-serif;
  font-weight: normal;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

And for your widget titles (sidebar), line 2674

.widget-title {
  font-size: 16px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: "Fjalla One", sans-serif;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
  color:#aaa;
}

If you take any of these blocks and paste them into your Child Theme style.css file, you can change all of the attributes as you wish.

No idea on the slider/map question, sorry!

I see on the forum that many people are having this issue… is there a solution for this exact problem, or is it going to be a trial and error process to work this out?

Troubleshooting is always trial and error. 🙂

It may be a conflict between one of your plugins or your theme and the WordPress software. So try the basic troubleshooting steps to see if the problem persists:

• 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://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F 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://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

[ Moderator note: Jess? Please don’t use short URLs for Codex links. ]

If you have a copy of the previous version’s stylesheet, which is what controls all of the visuals, then you can copy and paste the stuff you want to keep into your Child Theme’s stylesheet.

Using a Child Theme means that this situation – “They just changed the font used between one version and the next” – would not happen in the future when the theme author updates things, because you would have all of your own CSS in effect. Some people only put the things they are changing from the original CSS into the Child Theme, rather than copying all of the styling, but it is my personal practice to put ALL of the CSS for a theme into the Child Theme, so that I can compare an update with what I’m already using and make modifications as I want to. Avoids nasty surprises. 🙂

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