ejm

Please excuse me for answering my own question. I had hoped to see a reply from someone else but while waiting, continued to struggle with it on my own….

I created content-archive.php with the following coding:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying archive pages content as titles only.
 *
 * Twenty_Twelve child theme
 */
?>

		<header id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="entry-header">
			<h1 class="entry-title">
				<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentytwelve' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>  <small>(<?php the_date(); ?>)</small>
			</h1>
		</header><!-- .entry-header -->

Rather than edit archive.php and category.php in the child theme, I’m still hoping to make the changes in the child’s functions.php. I can’t figure out what the function name is or how to call it. Here’s what I’ve tried:

if is_archive() {
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

get_template_part( 'content', 'archive' );

endwhile;
}

No big surprise, this just throws a blank screen.

The following aside appears in twentytwelve’s archives.php and category.php. I think it might be an answer to my question. Could someone please translate it into English?

/* Include the post format-specific template for the content. If you want to
* this in a child theme then include a file called called content-___.php
* (where ___ is the post format) and that will be used instead.
*/

In the meantime, if I go to a category page, instead of seeing titles only, I see the excerpt of one post that is followed by a list of other posts in the category – with the title of the post being shown as the first in the list, but with no date for that one.

Please help! Thank you for any light you can shed on this.

E. Morris

category page:
etherwork[dot]net[slash]blog/category/whine/

Andrew:

etherwork dot net slash blog slash ← purposely unlinked in attempt to keep spammers and bruteforce attacks at bay

Scroll down the page to see the changing opacity.

After receiving zero responses to this, I have somehow blundered onto a solution. It’s not pretty, but it works…. This is the coding that I have put into my template folder index.php just after the_content section and before adding the comment template. I probably should have put the coding into the template’s function.php but I don’t know how to do that.

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<?php
{
comments_number('<a href="'. get_permalink() . '#disqus_thread" title="please comment">0 comments</a>', '<a href="'. get_permalink() . '#disqus_thread" title="1 comment so far">1 comment</a>', '<a href="'. get_permalink() . '#disqus_thread"  title="% comments so far">% comments</a>');
}
else : // comments are closed
  comments_number('','1 comment before comments were closed','% comments before comments were closed');
endif;
?>

I welcome concrete suggestions for tidying up the code.

-E Morris, who only knows enough about php coding to get in trouble

Once again, please excuse me for replying to myself.

I’m pleased to report that I have FINALLY got things back again.

Ari wrote:

did you make sure not to upload over the wp-config.php file again?

Ari, you were right to ask this question! After deleting, uploading, deleting, uploading and constantly running into the same problem of having WP invite me to install a new WP, the light finally dawned.

I have a different prefix for wordpress tables in the database. The prefix is defined in wp-config. So, with my clean upload of wp-config I had neglected to change that prefix to match the prefixes in my database. Duh….

This is what I had to change $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; to

$table_prefix = 'mycustomizedprefix_';

and hey, presto! The wordpress database is once again attached to my wordpress.

Thank you again for your patient answers, Ari.

There are no silly questions, Ari. I wondered the same thing myself.

But no. I just took a look at the files via CPanel’s file manager and everything is there (all contents of wp-content folder and all new files of wp-admin and wp-includes and necessary root files). The wp-config file appears to be correct.

What really confuses me is that there is no trace at all of the newly formed entirely empty WP in the database area.

Having been unable to resolve this, I have deleted the plugin.

Scanning the site helped somewhat. But I’m guessing that iThemes Security is causing 500 errors for any redirects from default permalinks to named permalinks

There are still 404 errors appearing in the iThemes Security log that I cannot tell have been caused by my error or not. The IPs trying to access the files are generally benign.

/myWPfolder/2006/05/recipes/photopages/breaddough.html

I’ve tried to find these errors on my WP but do not know where to look (aside from going to that page and not finding the offending link).

Another 404 that really confuses me is this one:

/myWPfolder/2014/12/

Of course, there are no entries for December yet. So, am I correct to assume that there is nothing I can do about this?

Thank you for any help you can offer.

-E Morris (Since starting this thread, I have updated from WP4.0 to WP4.01)