markwill

Thank you for the prompt response, laliz, which is much appreciated. I can actually change that without changing anything at the file level because if I remote into the server I can access the admin console without any issues, so I can just change the theme there.

But here’s the thing 🙂 BEFORE I made that change, I went and tried one more time (remotely) and it’s working now. I had not made the theme or any other change. So I am confused what caused this but certainly relieved.

Let me try to salvage something from this, in terms of lessons for the future. I am somewhat new to WordPress (though I have been immersed in it for a couple of months :)). This little episode has me wondering what logs are available to troubleshoot issues like this. When I have an internal server error, what is the normal course of action to troubleshoot?

Thanks again – panic over, but hoping I can still learn something useful regarding the logs.

Mark

Thank you for the response. I am familiar with how to create a parent/child page setup and have used that in a number of situations. The challenge I have here is down to two requirements (using /<categoryname>/<pagename> as the example):

For SEO purposes <categoryname> is a category and will have many posts under that category.

Unfortunately, the <pagename> content must, for business reasons, be child of the category, in terms of URL structure.

So, it seems from your comments that I have a big problem on my hands. I would love to hear of any creative solutions to this but I have one thought.

The current <pagename> content is implemented as a page (it’s temporarily under another page). What I could do, I guess, is somehow move this to be a POST (not a page), have it under the category but have it use some template that is intended for just that specific post (all the other posts under the category have a totally different layout).

Is that possibly a solution? I am not familiar with what constraints I might have if I move a page to a post.

Thanks again.

Mark

Figured it out – using /%category%/%postname% as the permalink. That said, next up is to figure out what works best for SEO purposes. Seeing differing opinions as I research that.

Thank you for the response, Stephen. The basic flow is..

I have basically mirrored the single.php (and the header and footer files) to create my own three files.

The mypage.php file has a call to get_header(‘mypage’);

In header-mypage.php, I originally had the call to wp_head() just before the closing </head> tag (which is where I believe it is supposed to be). If I leave that in the page gets messed up with remnants of Twenty Fifteen somehow. If I remove wp_head() at that point the page renders perfectly.

Note that mypage.php, header-mypage.php and footer-mypage.php are stripped down to the minimum (basically an almost empty page) as I test this. With the wp_head left in, though, I get some HTML added for Twenty Fifteen, which messes up the page.

So, as I say, I guess I have a fix – except that I keep reading to leave this call to wp_head() in so plugins, etc can register for hooks.

Make sense?

Mark

Anyone have any thoughts on this?