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  • You need to get in touch with your web hosting company. A 500 server error is something that they should be able to fix.

    Forum: Localhost Installs
    In reply to: URL NameServer

    I think the question you’re trying to ask is about TCP/IP (tranmission control protocol/internet protocol). Your question is not about a WordPress localhost install. You seem to have WordPress running.

    Home routers and your ISP (the business providing the internet for you) typically do not allow anonymous Internet traffic into a home router for the purpose of accessing a server hosting a website. They typically only allow outbound traffic, while allowing traffic in that has been specifically requested by your browser. Serving a website to the world is a complex (amazing) process and it’s a bit beyond the scope of the WordPress forums.

    I think ultimately, you’re trying to save money and get your website out to the world. A solution to this would be to move your site to a less expensive shared hosting environment. Here are a few hosting companites that might work for you.

    Forum: Localhost Installs
    In reply to: URL NameServer

    Could you explain what you are ultimately trying to do?

    Are you trying to get your locally developed website onto the Internet?

    Usually sites are developed locally, then moved to a server like GoDaddy, DreamHost, ICDSoft, or one of many server companies that host websites. The Duplicator plugin can be used to easily move a site from one location to another.

    If you’re asking about setting a nameserver, it would depend on where you registered your domain. If it’s GoDaddy go here.

    If you’re asking if it’s possible to point nameservers to your local install, that’s usually not possible for a variety of reasons.

    I think you’re trying to get your locally developed site http://Localhost/absolutelybolics to the domain that you registered, http://Absolutelybolics.com so that other people can get to that site. Is that correct?

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Text size

    You’re welcome. Glad that it worked.

    Try putting the following in the widgets that you don’t want showing up on the home page.

    !is_page('home')

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/other_notes/

    You could use the Widget Logic Plugin. It allows you to use conditional tags to determine which widgets show up on which pages.

    For example, if you wanted a specific widget to show up only on the Home page, you would give it the condition

    is_page('home')

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

    Forum: Localhost Installs
    In reply to: URL NameServer

    If you’re working with a localhost install, the url will usually start with http:

    localhost/name-of-site-folder

    -OR-

    localhost:sometimes-portnumber/name-folder-htdocs (MAMP)

    Working with WAMP (or on the mac – MAMP) means that you’re working on a site within your computer, so you don’t need nameservers to find it. Nameservers are used for routing to websites on the Internet. When working with WAMP, you’re working locally, on your computer. You don’t need to be online to work locally.

    (I use MAMP, so I get to my installs by going to localhost:8888
    That allows me to see all the instances of sites that I’ve installed locally.)

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#WAMP

    Then, in order to install WordPress, download the zip file, and extract it into the web directory for your WAMP installation (this is normally installed as c:\wamp\www). Finally visit http://localhost/wordpress to start the WordPress install. (Assuming you extracted into c:\wamp\www\wordpress).

    Hope this helps to clarify.

    That information about html tags is used on pretty much every comment form.

    It’s helpful to people who want to submit comments so that they know the acceptable html tags that will be allowed. It allows text to be styled in a certain way. For example, if someone wanted to comment on your beer brewing site, they could say:

    Really great article. I’ve been working on some recipes too.

    I think that adding raspberry to beer is great!

    A person could surround the 2nd line with <strong> opening and closing tags to make it bold.

    Same goes for all the rest of the tags. Notice that even commenting on this site tells the commenter what allowed markup is allowed.

    It’s no worries. It’s normal and is included with comment forms.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Text size

    Try changing

    text-size: 200%;

    to

    font-size: 200%;

    Here’s a link that explains:

    http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-size.asp

    Could you include your website url? This will help others to better troubleshoot your issue.

    If your theme is from outside of the WordPress theme repository, you should also check their respective forums or support.

    It looks like your server (the company hosting your website) is having some issues. You should try to get in touch with them to see what is happening.

    @BobbieBell – Hello there.

    Somehow I received a notification to a closed topic for Magazine Basic, so I’m responding here.

    I see that you’re starting out and wanted to clarify things. I’m no longer using Magazine Basic. I think it’s a great theme that allows for different customizations for pages and categories. I happily used it for a couple of years, but things change. I wanted to try something else. The current theme on greenpassivesolar.com is a premium, or paid, theme. I didn’t want to link it since the theme like likely change in time.

    The best thing to do when learning is to keep trying different things out – like you’re doing. The process gets faster with time.

    Best of luck. It’s fun to play and learn with WordPress!

    You need to put a page number. After you are logged in, you can find it by going to the pages menu. Hover over the page that you’d like to exclude and you’ll see it in the lower left hand side of the browser.

    Just put in that page number to exclude it from being included in the menu. They can also be separated by commas if you want to exclude a lot of them.

    You need to dump or empty the cache. It has cached the original setting. After activating it, there’s usually a tab at the top of the screen that says “Performance”. Hover over that and click on “Empty all caches”.

    I think if you mean that you do want to be indexed, go to Settings, then Reading. The last one is called “Search engine visibility”. Make sure that it is unchecked, then save.

    If it is checked, that’s what generates <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />.

    Try changing that, dump the cache, and you should see the change.

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