ejm

Any ideas for how to fix category.php? Do you think I have to actually list each of the other category numbers in the ‘if, else’ sections?

Thank you for your reply, t-p

I deactivated all plugins as you suggested and one by one (starting with what I consider to be the most important: WordFence) and the error message disappeared. However, nothing past the header of the page on many of the categories (including “food and drink”, “equipment and techniques”) appear. The category pages for categories 56, 57, 70, 74 DO appear correctly.

When I activated the plugin WP DoNotTrack, the error message was produced and the stark and mainly blank (except for the message “site is experiencing technical difficulties” category page was generated.

This is an improvement but not quite as much of an improvement as hoped for…

It would be nice to have all the category pages be filled in normally.

Category page that is now showing normally: /blog/category/crossblogging/wordless-wednesdays/

Category page that is only partially showing: /blog/category/food-drink/

I have the following coding on my theme’s category.php page:

/*...............
Customizing category pages 
................*/

if (is_category(56)) {
echo '[coding for image for category 56 "Wordless"]';
}
elseif (is_category(70)) {
echo '[coding for image for category 70]';
}
elseif  (is_category(57)) {
echo '[coding for image for category 57]';
}  
elseif (is_category(74)) {
echo '[coding for image for category 74]';		
}
else {echo '';} 

?></h1>

<div class="meta"><?php echo category_description();

if (is_category(56)) {
echo '[specific wording for category 56 "Wordless"]';
}
elseif (is_category(70)) {
echo '[specific wording for category 70]';
} 
elseif  (is_category(57)) {
echo '[specific wording for category 57]';
}
elseif (is-category(74)) {
echo '[specific wording for category 74]';	
}
else {echo '';} ?></div>

Because these are the only category pages that now show correctly (with the WP DoNotTrack plugin deactivated), does this mean that I must include in category.php ALL of the category special wording for each category?

-E

I tried disabling iThemes Security and switching to WordFence (my webhost will not allow me to run WP without a security plugin). Alas, the manual sync’ing still did not work.

It’s with great regret that I have had to disable Disqus. So, even though the solution was not found, I’m marking this thread as “resolved”.

Thank you again, brevityness, for all your replies.

Hmmm it’s possible that another plugin is interfering with the set up process. You could try disabling other plugins and attempting to re-install again to see if that works.

The problem with disabling other plugins one by one is that the site looks broken. Not to mention that it’s very time consuming. So, to save time (ha!), I upgraded to the latest version of WP.

Alas, autosyncing is still showing up as “unconfigured”.

In spite of the fact that I believe my Disqus account seems to be configured, this is what I see after selecting the “enable auto syncing” tab in the wp-admin area of the Disqus Plugin:

Auto syncing: Not Configured
Error enabling syncing: Verification request failed: 2018-05-31 5:51 pm

I have got manual sync’ing to work but it could prove to be a little unwieldy to have to remember to do it. Because autosyncing was working before the latest plugin update, and because manual sync’ing is working, I’m afraid I’m disinclined to try to fix the autosyncing through trial and error by disabling plugins one by one.

Thank you for your help, brevityness. Am I correct that autosyncing is working for you?

If not, I’m not sure now who or how to ask about how to fix autosyncing, but as there is one other person who posted on the Disqus forum about autosyncing not working in her WP, I suspect it may be something that was done in the latest upgrade of Disqus itself.