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Oh, but I did find 3 .htaccess files when I had searched. I only added that line of code to the file within /public_html/wp-includes.

I also found the same file name in /public_html and in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet.

I’m not sure what the code actually does, so I’m not sure which one I should actually be adding it to.

The wp-includes file has the following code – without the code that I added to the top:
‘<Files *.php>
deny from all
</Files>
<Files wp-tinymce.php>
allow from all
</Files>
<Files ms-files.php>
allow from all
</Files>’

The public_html file has the following code:
‘# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress’

The file within the Akismet plugin folder has the following code:
‘# Only allow direct access to specific Web-available files.

# Apache 2.2
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</IfModule>

# Apache 2.4
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all denied
</IfModule>

# Akismet CSS and JS
<FilesMatch “^(form\.js|akismet\.js|akismet\.css)$”>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

# Akismet images
<FilesMatch “^logo-full-2x\.png$”>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>’

So, maybe I should be adding it to the Aksimet one? Though when I dialed Akismet it didn’t seem to fix the problem. I will be retrying that just to rule it out.

I was able to change how my file manger sees the files, but uploading them to the Media Library didn’t work still. They still have the http error. So now I will try some smaller images and test them out to see if it is size based.

Well, I have to change this answer slightly. I deactivated all plugins and checked all of them. Nothing changed. I discovered another thread that said to find the .htaccess file in the WP root directory and add a line of code, but I couldn’t find the .htaccess file at all in the WP root directory. I could search for it and it told me where it was, but I can’t physically see a file with that name.

I re-tried using “Add from server” after uploading my images to a different spot on my server and oddly, one image worked and the other 5 or 6 images still failed. The one image that worked was a cell phone image. My max file size is set to 100MB (as it tells me from the media upload screen). All files are much smaller than that. 6-10 MB, I think. The Cell one was 2MB. Is there something wrong with my file size settings that I can’t find? GoDaddy assured me that the file size requirements on their end were all set. I’m thinking of trying them again and hoping to get a different person to help.

Is max file size based on all files or individual files?

Any thoughts?

Thank you for your response! I did disable Jetpack and tried uploading with the same results. Either I get a visible http error or I just get a blank “?” as the icon for the image with no data attached. I also tried the “Add from Server” plugin and even if the file is on my hosting server and I upload it to the media library, it is still showing up with a blank file. Unless I am using it wrong. Here is what I did using “Add from Server”:

I uploaded a file to my hosting server, navigated to it from “Add from Server” and then hit the Import button. It tells me the file is in my media library, but when I go to the library, it is still a “?” icon with no media details. If I re-import an image I have deleted from my library previously, it seems to be able to upload it properly, but not with new ones. So basically, no matter how I upload it seems to be having the same issue (though I still have not tried a true ftp upload…might try that next.)

I feel like this is an issue with my actual hosting company but they have already assured me that it is not them.

A bit of background information regarding this site which may be relevant to this issue since it’s only come up recently:

I was working on this WP site on a separate domain (still within our web hosting domain) while it was under construction at new.mmdrdesigns.com. When I completed it, we swapped over the domains, so that the WP domain that I had been working on was now hosted at my main domain – http://www.mmdrdesigns.com and the new.mmdrdesigns.com domain was now unused.

Could there be an issue somewhere that the images are somehow not being allowed to be stored on the main domain or maybe some navigation issue? I’m really not sure what I am trying to explain, but this is the first time I have tried to upload images since we swapped the domains a couple of weeks ago. And this is the only time I have had this error.

I will continue to try deactivating my plug ins, but the ones I have left don’t seem to have any relation to media uploads.

Thanks again!

Great! I was able to change some items with the code above. I am using JetPack’s custom CSS editor and sometimes when I preview the changes, it doesn’t show up, but then I exit out of the editor (after saving the changes) and all of a sudden it is changed! Not sure what I’m doing wrong there.

So, how do I find out what the theme has labeled for various text? I tried editing the text that is at the bottom of the individual post pages (like the navigation text and “Leave a reply”) with the following, but it didn’t work. Am I using the wrong class to change them?

‘.nav-next, .nav-links, .nav-previous, .comment-reply-title .navigation {
font-size: 1.9rem;
font-style: bold;
}’

I had also considered removing the navigation links all together – which doesn’t seem to be working either. I used the following:

‘.entry-meta-footer {
display: none;
}

.more-link {
display: none;
}

.page-links {
display: none;
}’

I was also trying to change the font to on the Post/Portfolio preview page. I assume it should be ‘.entry-title’ then the front changes, but that only changed the title within the post itself. Not on /portfolio and /blog pages.

Where can I (or can I at all) edit the title “Archives: Portfolio” on my portfolio page? I assume that if my child theme had all of the css available for editing, I would find that within the code and could change it. But the only code I see in the stylesheet is what I added. And I don’t seem to have a portfolio or archives php page.

So, final question for now, if I want to remove the date bar all together from the post preview page (and the portfolio preview page), can I do that? I messed around with some of the settings you gave me snippets for but nothing removed them. I assume it has something to do with the extra “a” when attached to ‘.entry-meta a’
vs ‘entry-meta’, but it’s hard to google that extra “a” in css code!

Thanks again!

Hi Siobhan,

Thanks for all of that! I added the various snippets and most of it worked perfectly! The one thing that still is not centered is my logo at the top. The logo is more of a banner and seems to still be left justified. Is there code for the logo that I can add?

Also, the change for the buttons on the posts page worked great! But it then changed the color of those same label/buttons on the main blog and portfolio pages to white (with white text). I tried changing the #FFF to another color but it still seems to be white. Here’s the most recent code that I put in there to try to change the labels on the main blog and portfolio pages.

‘/*change color of buttons on post pages*/
.entry-meta, .edit-link, .comment-reply-link, .entry-footer a[rel=”tag”], .entry-footer a[rel=”category tag”], #infinite-handle span, .entry-footer a[rel=”category tag”] {
background: #FFF;
color: #404040;
}

/*change color of hover on buttons*/
.entry-footer a[rel=”tag”]:hover, .entry-footer a[rel=”category tag”]:hover {
background-color: 003d84F;
}’

Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks again!

Michelle

I think I have discovered that with Debut, and maybe all of wordpress, the posts (including the custom content posts of Jetpack’s Portfolio) always have a sidebar, unless edited out with CSS. I noticed that my Portfolio page and Blog page have a sidebar for Search, Archives and Meta. How do I remove those? I did check the forums, but the CSS edits that I am finding seem to be theme specific and do not seem to work on Debut.