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Never mind – the culprit was a corrupt entry in the wp_options table in the MySQL database.

The migration was successful, but had to do some extra steps to make the site work.

In step 8 if the test and live database table prefixes are different (as was in my case), the wp-config file had to be updated on the live site to reflect the new prefix.

Had to run search/replace script (step 10) before logging into the live site to do step 9. After the migration the test site’s user name and password became the live site’s Admin user. Have to add the original admin user back into the live site.

Also immediately after the migration, the home page displayed properly, but the other links, when selected, produced a 404 error. The .htaccess file was not present in the live site’s root directory after the migration. Solution: The test site had Permalinks set to post name. On the live site, had to reset Permalinks to Default, saved it and then set it back to post name and saved it again. As a result of resetting the Permalinks settings, the .htaccess file was created, which eliminated the 404 errors.

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It works!!

I’m using your latest version and local host, which means I couldn’t send you a link. Didn’t occur to me to include post_type with tax and term – and I saw how one can combine several parameters in a shortcode. I didn’t go far enough in troubleshooting…

Thanks for not giving up on me.

Well, it’s really not working – what I meant to say was that my original calls to register_post_type and register_taxonomy calls were working like I wanted. I didn’t mean to imply putting this: [ic_add_posts tax=’event-type’ term=’chamber’] on my front page was working…

Also, I have a several more taxonomies defined as well, I just want to use the event-type taxonomy.

After reading the Function Reference page, I put the following the following in my posttypes.php file:

$labels = array(
		'name'                       => 'Event types',
		'singular_name'              => 'Event type',
		'menu_name'                  => 'Event type',
		'all_items'                  => 'All event types',
		'parent_item'                => '',
		'parent_item_colon'          => '',
		'new_item_name'              => 'New event type',
		'add_new_item'               => 'Add event type',
		'edit_item'                  => 'Edit event type',
		'update_item'                => 'Update event type',
		'separate_items_with_commas' => 'Separate event types with commas',
		'search_items'               => 'Search event type',
		'add_or_remove_items'        => 'Add or remove event type',
		'choose_from_most_used'      => 'Choose from the most used event types',
	);

	$rewrite = array(
		'slug'                       => 'event-type',
		'with_front'                 => true,
		'hierarchical'               => true,
	);

	$args = array(
		'labels'                     => $labels,
		'hierarchical'               => true,
		'public'                     => true,
		'show_ui'                    => true,
		'query_var'                  => 'event-type',
		'rewrite'                    => $rewrite,
	);

	register_taxonomy( 'event-type', 'events', $args );

Note: in the second argument I put in ‘events’ vice ‘post’ since the former was used to register the custom post type.

I’m still not getting the CPT on the front page. Is the value for term parameter in your shortcode case sensitive?

Watching lynda.com’s Building Child Themes clued me in on a possible solution. Moved sidebar.php into the child theme folder and tested for the post type of ‘post’ above the <div> statement.

Probably a kluge fix, but my blog, custom posts and pages are displaying like I want them.

I should thank me for figuring this out 🙂

Follow up question regarding my first post:

The child theme folder already has single.php, was wondering if that file should be modified and/or do I place Twenty Eleven’s sidebar-page.php and/or sidebar.php into the child theme folder and make mods to those files to allow the sidebar display only for blog pages?

Just don’t know what variables/functions to add, modify, etc.