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If it’s any consolation, this happened to me in one of my sites as well.

I never figured out how/why it happened, much less how to fix it. Finally, I reinstalled the whole thing, and that chased the evil spirit away. The problem has not recurred on that site again (or … yet?).

I’d be keeping my ears open on how you fix this …. so I’m ready if the evil spirit decides to come back.

There’s a plugin called Exclude Pages (from navigation) — http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

Install and activate it. Once you’ve done, the write panel of each (regular) page will have an area called EXCLUDE PAGES and a box with “Include this page in user menus”. By default, this box is ticked. If each page that you do NOT wish to appear on the menu, untick this box.

Please don’t forget to mark your post as RESOLVED.

Just to clarify ….

– You have posts for individual events — like birthday, wedding, etc. — and they are under the category EVENTS.
– In your menu, you have a tab/page for WHAT’S ON
– You want it so that, when people click on WHAT’S ON, they get taken to a page that’s got the posts from the category EVENTS

If this is what you have in mind, then this is how I’ve been doing it.

1 – Install and activate a plugin called Page Links To (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

2 – Get (and remember) the permalink for the category containing all your event posts

3 – Click PAGES > ADD NEW to create a new page

4 – At the bottom of that window, you will find the box for Page Links To. The first line says: Point to this URL. Type in the permalink from #2 here.

5 – Publish the page (the page is empty).

Note that earlier I made a distinction (ie different names) between the category (EVENTS) and the page (WHAT’s ON). The reason for this is that, in my own WP sites, I routinely take out the “category” from the permalinks of categories. Meaning, to refer to category EVENTS:

I use: mydomain.com/events
Instead of: mydomain.com/category/events (the default)

So if I used EVENTS for both category name and page name, WP may get confused (and will take time to resolve it). If you’re not doing as I’m doing (ie you’re using /category/events for category name and /events/ for page), then you can call both of them EVENTS.

You haven’t really explained clearly what it is you want to achieve (except for the title — and that’s subject to several interpretations).

So what do you mean by:
Displaying posts from Categories on appropriate pages — ?

You say:
Database Name: ugandadatabase

But your wp-config.php says:
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘redacted.com’);

You need to tweak your wp-config.php so that it points to your database: define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘ugandadatabase’);

Can you clarify: “…in each 2-3 days my posts are automatically getting locked. I mean the comment post is getting disabled for all of my posts.”

Comments are closed … ie nobody can post comments anymore?

If so, I’m wondering if your site is set up that way.

Go to SETTINGS > DISCUSSION and look under the ‘Other comment settings’. Make sure the box on the third line in that block (“Automatically close comments ….”) is NOT ticked.

I have no problems accessing it as well.

But the dog under “Welcome’ looks a bit sad …. maybe it needs a Happy Dog plugin? 🙂